CHAPTER VI 



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 to substances not so mixed in or incorporated. 



Of accursed data, it seems to me that punk is pretty damnable. 

 In the Report of the British Association, 1878-376, there is men- 

 tion of a light chocolate-brown substance that has fallen with 

 meteorites. No particulars given; not another mention anywhere 

 else that I can find. In this English publication, the word "punk" 

 is not used; the substance is called "amadou." I suppose, if the 

 datum has anywhere been admitted to French publications, the 

 word "amadou" has been avoided, and "punk" used. 



Or oneness of allness: scientific works and social registers: a Gold- 

 stein who can't get in as Goldstein, gets in as Jackson. 



The fall of sulphur from the sky has been especially repulsive to 

 the modern orthodoxy largely because of its associations with 

 the superstitions or principles of the preceding orthodoxy stories 

 of devils: sulphurous exhalations. Several writers have said that 

 they have had this feeling. So the scientific reactionists, who have 

 rabidly fought the preceding, because it was the preceding: and the 

 scientific prudes, who, in sheer exclusionism, have held lean hands 

 over pale eyes, denying falls of sulphur. I have many notes upon 

 the sulphurous odor of meteorites, and many notes upon phosphor- 

 escence of things that come from externality. Some day I shall look 

 over old stories of demons that have appeared sulphurously upon 

 this earth, with the idea of expressing that we have often had 

 undesirable visitors from other worlds; or that an indication of 

 external derivation is sulphurousness. I expect some day to ration- 

 alize demonology, but just at present we are scarcely far enough 

 advanced to go so far back. 



For a circumstantial account of a mass of burning sulphur, about 

 the size of a man's fist, that fell at Pultusk, Poland, Jan. 30, 1868, 



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