The Newtown Pentacle

Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi

uncanny light

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– photo by Mitch Waxman

Disillusioned, desolate, and diseased– the endless byways of the Newtown Pentacle beckon- calling out to me- the barren, the confused, the discarded.

Always, it seems, an Outsider must keep to the shadows. This is best.

Paranoid, absent minded, and an unreliable physical coward– the feckless quisling who serves as your humble narrator once more offers devotions and attention to a great pattern etched beneath the cement, marching across its sunlit reality like some obsequious pilgrim. Certain realities have been made abundantly clear over the vernal months, confirming specific fears and betraying closely held beliefs. A stalking horse walks my lands.

While lost in the above soliloquy one afternoon, I was walking from Astoria to South Street Seaport‘s Pier 17, when I found this scene in Long Island City.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Another crew of workmen were observed standing in a similar pit on the other side of the street- 23rd street, if you’re curious. My assumption was that they were feeding this copper tubing from one side of the street to the other, for some purpose of which I cannot hazard a guess. Perhaps the acolytes of that which does not think, or breathe, yet hungers; that thing which is rumored to exist in the crown of the nearby Citibank Megalith– desired to have a constant connection to the Court Square diner’s coffee station.

Who can guess, all there is… that might be down there?

Written by Mitch Waxman

September 3, 2010 at 5:28 pm

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  1. I would have pondered that perhaps the dread acolytes of the tower planned an unspeakable merger between modern technology and the arcane lore of the Necronomicon.

    But now I wonder…..

    How does Nyarlathotep takes his coffee?

    Cav

    September 3, 2010 at 9:30 pm

    • short answer- nyarlothep likes his coffee fuligin, and the notion of sweetness is immaterial to such a creature as he.

      Mitch Waxman

      September 4, 2010 at 12:01 am


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