The Book of the Damned

By: Charles Fort

Narrated by: Graham Dunlop

ONE of the dam-dest in our whole saturnalia of the accursed. Because it is hopeless to try to shake off an excommunication only by saying that we’re damned by blacker things than ourselves; and that the damned are those who admit they’re of the damned. Inertia and hypnosis are too strong for us. We say that: then we go right on admitting we’re of the damned. It is only by being more nearly real that we can sweep away the quasi-things that oppose us. Of course, as a whole, we have considerable amorphousness, but we are thinking now of “individual” acceptances. Wideness is an aspect of Universalness or Realness. If our syntheses disregard fewer data than do opposing syntheses which are often not syntheses at all, but mere consideration of some one circumstance less widely synthetic things fade away before us. Harmony is an aspect of the Universal, by which we mean Realness. If we approximate more highly to harmony among the parts of an expression and to all available circumstances of an occurrence, the self-contradictors turn hazy. Solidity is an aspect of realness. We pile them up, and we pile them up, or they pass and pass and pass: things that bulk large as they march by, supporting and solidifying one another And still, and for regiments to come, hypnosis and inertia rule....

Public Domain (P)2022 Adultbrain Publishing

The single worst of Audible

Written like a twelve year old wanted to sound like a pompous nineteenth century professor. Read like a nine year old wanted to just get through it without regard for pronunciation or meaning.

I forced myself to slog thoroughly all the way to the end. I did it because I’m a bit of a weirdo. Don’t bother. It doesn’t get any better at all..