[UA] A Cliomancer's Wet Dream?

[Kenneth Hite]

At 6:43 AM +0100 4/16/0, Chris Milne wrote:
>On Monday, April 17, 2000 8:19 AM, Timothy Toner
>[SMTP:thanatos at interaccess.com] wrote:
>
>> More interesting, however, is that the [Tribune Tower] has a
>> rock from each of the 50 states embedded in its walls, as well
>> as chunks of the Taj Mahal, Parthenon, Great Pyramid of Cheops,
>> and many, many more significant buildings.

The Trib Tower now also has a moon rock on display at street level; one of
the only moon rocks in private hands not at a museum. (It's in a plastic
case behind a window, not set into the wall like the other rocks are.)

Oh, and (RAGGED ARMIES alert) it also has a statue of Nathan Hale out
front.  The Trib Tower *rocks.*

>Do the Greeks and the Egyptians want those bits back? Or
>are they just little bits of rock (not guaranteed to rake
>in the tourists as much as, say, the Elgin Marbles or big
>statues)?

Well, they're mostly small chunks; the biggest ones I've seen are about the
size of a large brick.  I imagine that the original owners have bigger fish
to fry.  On the other hand, Col. McCormick (the Tribune's publisher at the
time, and one of the great crazy Americans of the 20th century) was quite
willing to condone bribery, theft, vandalism and all kinds of antisocial
behaviors as long as he got his rocks.  He'd threaten to fire foreign
correspondents who didn't go along, too.  (And yes, playing a group of
1920s Chicago Tribune stringers being sent all over the world to gather
*special* rocks for the Colonel would make one hell of an UA Narrative
Structure.)

IMUAC, McCormick was rumored to be a powerful, crazy duke of some sort
(though nobody knows what kind); his stubborn independent streak may have
been what thwarted the Auriga Society's attempt to Ascend Chicago during
the 1933 World's Fair.  (To be fair, it may also have been what thwarted
Angela Forsythe's  attempt to control American cliomancy.)  And futzing
up/channeling/etc. Cliomantic magick is just *one* of the things the
Tribune Tower does.  Bwah hah hah hah.

My kind of town, Chicago is...

Kenneth Hite, LHN

P.S. The Seminary Co-op building on the U of C campus also has some rocks
in its walls, primarily from famous cathedrals.  And the finest academic
bookstore in the hemisphere in its basement.  Did I mention that I love
Chicago?



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