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From, "The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort.

I even went back a little.

"When we can specially take up that subject, one of our leading ideas, or credulities, will be that near approach by another world to this world would be catastrophic: that

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2 "navigable worlds would avoid proximity; that others that have survived have organized into protective remotenesses, or orbits which approximate to regularity, though by no means to the degree of popular supposition.

"But the persistence of the notion that we must be

3 interesting. Bugs and germs and things like that: they're interesting to us: some of them are too "interesting.

"Dangers of near approach - nevertheless our own ships that dare not venture close to a rocky shore can send rowboats ashore -

"Why not diplomatic relations

4 "established between the United States and Cyclorea - which, in our advanced astronomy, is the name of a remarkable wheel-shaped world or super-construction? Why not missionaries sent here openly to convert us from our barbarous prohibitions and other taboos, and to prepare

5 "the way for a good trade in ultra-bibles and super-whiskeys; fortunes made in selling us cast-off super-fineries, which we'd take to like an African chief to someone's old silk hat from New York or London?

The answer that occurs to me is so simple that it seems immediately

6 "acceptable, if we accept that the obvious is the solution of all problems, or if most of our perplexities consist in laboriously and painfully conceiving of the unanswerable, and then looking for answers - using such words as 'obvious' and 'solution' conventionally -

7 "Or:

"Would we, if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle?

"Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relation with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation?

"I think we're property.

8 "I should say we belong to something:

"That once upon a time, this earth was No-man's Land, that other worlds explored & colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it's owned by something:

"That something owns this earth - all others warned off.

9 "Nothing in our own times - perhaps - because I am thinking of certain notes I have - has ever appeared upon this earth, from somewhere else, so openly as Columbus landed upon San Salvador, or as Hudson sailed up his river. But as to surreptitious visits 2 this earth, in recent

10 "times, or as to emissaries, perhaps, from other worlds, or voyagers who have shown every indication of intent to evade and avoid, we shall have data as convincing as our data of oil or coal-burning aerial super-constructions.

"But, in this vast subject, I shall have to do

11 "considerable neglecting or disregarding, myself. I don't see how I can, in this book, take up at all the subject of possible use of humanity to some other mode of existence, or the flattering notion that we can possibly be worth something.

12 "Pigs, geese, and cattle.

"First find out that they are owned.

"Then find out the whyness of it.

"I suspect that, after all, we're useful - that among contesting claimants, adjustment has occurred, or that something now has a legal right to us, by force, or by having paid

13 "out analogues of beads for us to former, more primitive, owners of us - all others warned off - that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as

14 "superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received - from Somewhere else - in our mysterious usefulness.

"But I accept that, in the past, before proprietorship was established, inhabitants of a host of other worlds have - dropped here,

15 "hopped here, wafted, sailed, flown, motored - walked here, for all I know - been pulled here, been pushed; have come singly, have come in enormous numbers; have visited occasionally, have visited periodically for hunting, trading, replenishing harems, mining: have been unable

16 "to stay here, have established colonies here, have been lost here; far-advanced peoples, or things, and primitive peoples or whatever they were: white ones, black ones, yellow ones -

"I have a very convincing datum that the ancient Britons were blue ones.

17 "Of course we are told by conventional anthropologists that they only painted themselves blue, but in our own advanced anthropology, they were veritable blue ones - "

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