Urbanomancy (City-Based Magick)

[Paul Edson]

>Cities are complicated things.  Thousands upon thousands of people,
acres
>upon acres of concrete, the sewers beneath, the skyscrapers above, the
>tangled ecology of rats and pigeons and the bloody feeding chain of the
>streets ... all forming a huge, chaotic, living organism.  Graffiti,
>traffic, crime, McDonalds, riots, parks - they all come together, if
you
>look at them closely enough.  Urbanomancers can see the patterns of the
>city, probe them, and push them into new shapes.  They know there's
only
>one city, the one we half-glimpse in dreams, the Archetypal City, that
>Ascended in the sands of the Middle East five thousand years ago, and
that
>appears once in a century to swallow up foolish explorers.  All other
>cities want to be that City, and if you know what something wants, you
can
>control it.
>
>
Reminds me of Fritz Leiber's book, Our Lady of Sorrows, wherein the main
character discovers an Unearthly Tome called Megapolisomancy....

A book very much worth reading for UA fans...

Paul.