these bleats of pedantry
“These bleats of pedantry should be regarded as respectfully as we regard rag dolls that keep infants occupied and noiseless.
“Millions ruled by a small band of esoterics.
“The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is some other authoritativeness. When an infallibility clashes with a pontification– They explain.
“Raw meat should not be fed to babies.
“The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
“Butter and beef and blood and a stone with strange inscriptions upon it.
“Formulas are against us.
“The System merges away and evades us when we try to focus against it.
“Lightning selects the isolated and conspicuous, appendages upon some of them.”
– Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
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