Peasants believed in meteorites. Scientists excluded meteorites. Peasants believe in “thunderstones.” Scientists exclude “thunderstones.” It is useless to argue that peasants are out in the fields, and that scientists are shut up in laboratories and lecture rooms. We cannot take for a real base that, as to phenomena with which they are more familiar, … [Read more...] about Peasants believed in meteorites
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This is a common reflex
This is a common reflext with the exclusionists: that substances not “truly meteoritic” did not fall from the sky, but were picked up by “truly meteoritic” things, of course only on their surfaces, by impact with this earth. Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 74 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about This is a common reflex
Rancidness
Rancidness–putridity–decomposition–a note that has been struck many times. In a positive sense, of course, nothing means anything, or every meaning is continuous with all other meanings; or that all evidences of guilt, for instance, are just as good evidences of innocence–but this condition seems to mean–things lying around among the stars a long … [Read more...] about Rancidness
It seems to me
It seems to me that the exclusionists are still more emphatically conservators. It is not so much that they are inimical to all data of externally derived substances that fall upon this earth, as that they are inimical to all data discordant with a system that does not include such phenomena– Or the spirit or hope or amibition of the cosmos, which we call attempted … [Read more...] about It seems to me
I’m beginning to modify that
I’m beginning to modify: that, at a distance from this earth, gravitation has more effect than we have supposed, though less effect than the dogmatists suppose and “prove.” I’m coming out stronger for the acceptance of a Neutral Zone–that this earth, like other magnets, has a neutral zone, in which is the Super-Sargasso Sea, and in which other … [Read more...] about I’m beginning to modify that