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Therefore I regard poltergeists as evil or false or discordant or absurd -- names that we give to various degrees or aspects of the unassimilable, or that which resists attempts to organize, harmonize, systematize, or, in short, to positivize -- names that we give to our recognitions of the negative state.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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That all phenomena in our intermediate state, or quasi-state, represent this one attempt to organize, stabilize, harmonize, individualize -- or to positivize, or to become real:
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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If she eats not shell and all she represents universal failure to positivize.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Also, if she does she represents universal failure to positivize: her ensuing disorders will translate her to the Negative Absolute.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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We regard homogeneousness as an aspect of positiveness, but it is our acceptance that infinite frustrations of attempts to positivize manifest themselves in infinite heterogeneity: so that though things try to localize homogeneousness they end up in heterogeneity so great that it amounts to infinite dispersion or indistinguishability.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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