2go BOOK OF JHE DAMNED 



meteorites detach gelatinous, or protoplasmic, lumps that fall with 

 them. 



Now the element of positiveness in our composition yearns for 

 the appearance of completeness. Super-geographical lakes with fishes 

 in them. Meteorites that plunge through these lakes, on their 

 way to this earth. The positiveness in our make-up must have 

 egression in at least one record of a meteorite that has brought 

 down a lot of fishes with it 



Nature, 3-512: 



That, near the bank of a river, in Peru, Feb. 4, 1871, a me- 

 teorite fell. "On the spot, it is reported, several dead fishes were 

 found, of different species." The attempt to correlate is that the 

 fishes "are supposed to have been lifted out of the river and dashed 

 against the stones." 



Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own 

 hypnoses. 



Nature, 4-169: 



That the fishes had fallen among the fragments of the meteorite. 



Popular Science Review, 4-126: 



That one day, Mr. Le Gould, an Australian scientist, was travel- 

 ing in Queensland. He saw a tree that had been broken off close 

 to the ground. Where the tree had been broken was a great bruise. 

 Near by was an object that "resembled a ten-inch shot." 



A good many pages back there was an instance of overshadow- 

 ing, I think. The little carved stone that fell at Tarbes is my own 

 choice as the most impressive of our new correlates. It was coated 

 with ice, remember. Suppose we should sift and sift and discard 

 half the data in this book suppose only that one datum should 

 survive. To call attention to the stone of Tarbes would, in my 

 opinion, be doing well enough, for whatever the spirit of this book 

 is trying to do. Nevertheless, it seems to me that a datum that 

 preceded it was slightingly treated. 



The disk of quartz, said to have fallen from the sky, after a 

 meteoric explosion: 



Said to have fallen at the plantation Bleijendal, Dutch Guiana: 

 sent to the Museum of Leyden by M. van Sypesteyn, adjutant to 

 the Governor of Dutch Guiana (Notes and Queries, 2-8-92). 



And the fragments that fall from super-geographic ice fields: 

 flat pieces of ice with icicles on them. I think that we did not 

 emphasize enough that, if these structures were not icicles, but 

 crystalline protuberances, such crystalline formations indicate long 



