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Charles Fort gathers reports of fish, frogs and coal falling from the sky, the cases science ignores.
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The Book of the Damnedの概要
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- 読書時間
- 約7 h 15 min5 h 45 min fast, 8 h 40 min slow
- 所要時間
- 103,500語28 chapters
- ページ数
- 305ページ461 in large print
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 読み応えがあります long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- 初版刊行年
- 1919by Charles Fort
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The Book of the Damned in short
The Book of the Damned makes one argument and supports it with a mountain of examples. Science builds its sense of completeness by excluding data, and the lines of exclusion are arbitrary because nature blends one thing into another. Each chapter lists cases outside the lines, from strange rains and falling fish to shaped stones, ignored observations and moving lights.
What The Book of the Damned is about
What if the facts that do not fit are the most useful ones? Charles Fort asks that question and answers it with a procession of everything science has shut out.
The Book of the Damned appeared in 1919. Fort, an American who spent years in libraries reading journals and newspapers, collected reports that textbooks leave out. Ink-black rains, fish on dry streets, a stone disk fallen from the sky and lights that wheel over the sea all take their turn. Behind the oddities sits an argument that every line between accepted and excluded facts is arbitrary. You will hear his case and his jokes.
対象読者. You will enjoy this if you love unsolved puzzles, old newspaper curiosities, sharp humor aimed at experts, and asking what an explanation really explains.
The 10 key ideas
Key idea 1 · free to read
Science excludes data to look complete
Fort begins with a parade. He pictures the facts that science has thrown out as columns marching past, some solemn, some silly, all condemned. By the damned he means the excluded. His warning is that today's outcasts may one day do the excluding.
His reasoning rests on continuity. Red and yellow blend into orange, so any line between red facts and yellow facts must fall in the wrong place. A barn is a house if someone lives in it, and so is a bird's nest. If nothing differs absolutely from anything else, every boundary is a convenience.
Fort asks the reader to accept ideas for now, not to believe them forever. Belief hardens a mind, while acceptance lets thought keep growing. Science looks finished only because it keeps its most awkward evidence out of sight.
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One favored explanation can outlive its problems
In the autumn of 1883 the world saw vivid sunsets and even blue moons, and they kept coming for years.
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Falling stones were once ruled impossible
Fort turns next to a case science has since reversed.
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Black and red rains defy tidy explanations
Fort moves to colored rains.
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The same small place gets the same strange fall
This is the idea Fort calls the heart of the book.
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Frogs, fish and larvae fall in puzzling patterns
Living things come next.
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Shaped stones and metal fall and get explained away
Fort's most daring cases involve objects that look made.
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Astronomy tells its hits and hides its misses
Fort now aims at the proudest science.
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Lights, wheels and shadows hint at visitors overhead
The later chapters grow bolder.
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Accept ideas for now and hold them loosely
How have Fort's ideas fared?
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『The Book of the Damned』についての質問
What is The Book of the Damned about?
It is a collection of reports that Charles Fort says science excludes, such as falls of fish, frogs, jelly and shaped stones, plus strange lights in the sky, with an argument that exclusion is arbitrary.
What does the word damned mean in the title?
Fort uses damned to mean excluded. The damned are facts and reports that accepted science has ruled out, and he warns that they may one day become the accepted ones.
What is the Super-Sargasso Sea?
It is Fort's name for an imagined region above the earth where objects hang beyond ordinary gravity until storms shake them down. He offers it as a tentative idea to explain repeated falls.
Is the book a true account and when was it written?
The reports come from real journals and newspapers that Fort cites by volume and page. It appeared in 1919. His explanations are speculative, and he calls them provisional himself.
Is the book worth reading today?
Many readers enjoy its dry humor, its odd cases and its habit of questioning neat explanations. It is a good source for anyone curious about how science decides what to include.
この版を引用します
Fort, Charles. The Book of the Damned. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-book-of-the-damned.
Fort, C. (2026). The book of the damned. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-book-of-the-damned (Original work published 1919)
Fort, Charles. The Book of the Damned. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-book-of-the-damned.
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}
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