23 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 23 Text-books tell us that the Dhurmsalla meteorites were picked up "soon," or "within half an hour." Given a little time the conventionalists may argue that these stones were hot when they fell, but that their great interior coldness had...
3 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 22 3 So then, it is our expression that Science relates to real knowledge no more than does the growth of a plant, or the organization of a department store, or the development of a nation: that all are assimilative, or organizing...
7 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 81 7 The living things that have come down to this earth: Attempts to preserve the system: That small frogs and toads, for instance, never have fallen from the sky, but were--"on the ground, in the first place"; or that there have been such...
27 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 27 Vast and black. The thing that was poised, like a crow over the moon. Round and smooth. Cannon balls. Things that have fallen from the sky to this earth. Our slippery brains. Things like cannon balls have fallen, in storms, upon this earth...
26 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 295 26 "Notes and Queries", 5-3-306: About 8 lights that were seen in Wales, over an area of about 8 miles, all keeping their own ground, whether moving together perpendicularly, horizontally, or over a zigzag course. They looked like...
22 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 22 "Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society", 1-157: Extract from the log of the bark "Lady of the Lake", by Capt. F. W. Banner: Communicated by R. H. Scott, F.R.S.: That, upon the 22nd of March, 1870, at Lat. 5 47 N., Long. 27 52 W...
1 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 1 A Procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read...
28 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 28 "Notes and Queries", 7-8-508: A correspondent who had been to Devonshire writes for information as to a story that he had heard there: of an occurrence of about thirty-five years before the date of writing: Of snow upon the ground--of all...
5 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 51 5 I shall attempt not much of correlation of dates. A mathematic-minded positivist, with his delusion that in an intermediate state twice two are four, whereas, if we accept Continuity, we cannot accept that there are anywhere two things...
24 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 24 We shall have an outcry of silences. If a single instance of anything be disregarded by a System--our own attitude is that a single instance is a powerless thing. Of course our own method of agreement of many instances is not a real method...
20 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 20 The New Dominant. Inclusionism. In it we have a pseudo-standard. We have a datum, and we give it an interpretation, in accordance with our pseudo-standard. At present we have not the delusions of Absolutism that may have translated some...
9 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 126 9 My own pseudo-conclusion: That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with...
16 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 16 Angels. Hordes upon hordes of them. Beings massed like the clouds of souls, or the commingling whiffs of spirituality, or the exhalations of souls that Dor pictured so often. It may be that the Milky Way is a composition of stiff, frozen...
12 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 12 Astronomy. And a watchman looking at half a dozen lanterns, where a street's been torn up. There are gas lights and kerosene lamps and electric lights in the neighborhood: matches flaring, fires in stoves, bonfires, house afire somewhere;...
14 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 14 We see conventionally. It is not only that we think and act and speak and dress alike, because of our surrender to social attempt at Entity, in which we are only super-cellular. We see what it is "proper" that we should see. It is orthodox...
10 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 135 10 Early explorers have Florida mixed up with Newfoundland. But the confusion is worse than that still earlier. It arises from simplicity. Very early explorers think that all land westward is one land, India: awareness of other lands...
18 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 18 The New Dominant. I mean "primarily" all that opposes Exclusionism-- That Development or Progress or Evolution is Attempt to Positivize, and is a mechanism by which a positive existence is recruited--that what we call existence is a womb...
11 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 11 One of the damnedest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed-- Because it is hopeless to try to shake off an excommunication only by saying that we're damned by blacker things than ourselves; and that the damned are those who admit they're...
15 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 15 Short chapter coming now, and it's the worst of them all. I think it's speculative. It's a lapse from our usual pseudo-standards. I think it must mean that the preceding chapter was very efficiently done, and that now by the rhythm of all...
19 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 251 19 I have industriously sought data for an expression upon birds, but the prospecting has not been very quasi-satisfactory. I think I rather emphasize our industriousness, because a charge likely to be brought against the attitude...
13 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 13 One of the most extraordinary of phenomena, or alleged phenomena, of psychic research, or alleged research--if in quasi-existence there never has been real research, but only approximations to research that merge away, or that are continuous...
17 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 225 17 The vast dark thing that looked like a poised crow of unholy dimensions. Assuming that I shall ever have any readers, let him, or both of them, if I shall ever have such popularity as that, note how dim that bold black datum is...
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4 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 4 It is in the records of the French Academy that, upon March 17, 1669, in the town of Chtillon-sur-Seine, fell a reddish substance that was "thick, viscous, and putrid. American Journal of Science", 1-41-404: Story of a highly unpleasant...
21 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 21 "Knowledge", Dec. 28, 1883: "Seeing so many meteorological phenomena in your excellent paper, "Knowledge", I am tempted to ask for an explanation of the following, which I saw when on board the British India Company's steamer "Patna", while...
8 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 8 I accept that, when there are storms, the damnedest of excluded, excommunicated things--things that are leprous to the faithful--are brought down--from the Super-Sargasso Sea--or from what for convenience we call the Super-Sargasso Sea--which...
25 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], 25 "A formation having the shape of a dirigible." It was reported from Huntington, West Virginia ("Sci. Amer.", 115-241). Luminous object that was seen July 19, 1916, at about 11 P.M. Observed through "rather powerful field glasses, it looked...
6 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 67 6 Lead, silver, diamonds, glass. They sound like the accursed, but they're not: they're now of the chosen--that is, when they occur in metallic or stony masses that Science has recognized as meteorites. We find that resistance is...
2 : * "The Book of the Damned", by Charles Fort, [1919], p. 16 2 In the autumn of 1883, and for years afterward, occurred brilliant-colored sunsets, such as had never been seen before within the memory of all observers. Also there were blue moons. I think that one is likely to smile incredulously...
