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March 9, 2009

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Today's theme is an unusual animal.

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Pip smoked three cigarettes. He said, "After it falls humans will barter their birthrights to demons. These buildings agree. Darkness is coming."

For a long moment I felt enveloped by bilious fog. An instant later I heard an airliner soar overhead and I realized human enterprise would always triumph over gargoyle superstition. I walked to the center of the roof. The concrete was firm under my feet. Pip was wrong. Dreadfully mistaken. The World Trade Center would stand forever.

I climbed aboard Pip's bat-winged shoulders.

"Let's go to Florida," I said.

"Good," said Pip. "New York gives me the heebie-jeebies."

Posted by: Harry Haller: Gargoyle Meditation at March 9, 2009 9:16 PM · Permalink