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Top and Bottoms
This is ‘city magick’ – the city as a ‘worldscraper’ – withroutes to the underworld and the sky city. In the bowels of the Thistle Hotel (formerlythe Rougemont) the DutyManager mis-leads us to a broom cupboard that he believes to be a cell fromthe old New Prison of theearly 1800s.We find in another room, just off the dusty beige shell of aformer nightclub – closed down some years ago because of trouble caused by marines from Lympstone Commando – aframed plan for redecoration: the reception floor is markedout in freemasonic chequerboard, while upstairs the resultis a blank square. Somewhere along the line someone madea decision for discretion, or cost, or didn’t get it, or maybethat the intention was enough. Another of the mytho-geometries that is/isn’t there.We cannot get into the cupola on the Exeter CentralRailway Station – there are“sensitive materials” in theoffice below.There is a layer of devil anddragon iconography aroundthe centre of Exeter, about
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