24 BOOK OF THE DAMNED 



the sky: metallic and stony: that the metallic objects are of iron 

 and nickel 



Butter and paper and wool and silk and resin. 



We see, to start with, that the virgins of science have fought and 

 wept and screamed against external relations upon two grounds: 



There in the first place; 



Or up from one part of this earth's surface and down to another. 



At late as November, 1902, in Nature Notes, 13-231, a member 

 of the Selborne Society still argued that meteorites do not fall 

 from the sky; that they are masses of iron upon the ground "in the 

 first place," that attract lightning; that the lightning is seen, and is 

 mistaken for a falling, luminous object 



By progress we mean rape. 



Butter and beef and blood and a stone with strange inscriptions 

 upon it. 





