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file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20Stephen%20King%20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htmJud’s voice spoke up in his mind then, worried and—frightened? Yes. Frightened.Louis, what are you doing here? You’re looking up a road you don’t want to travel.He pushed the voice aside. If he was torturing anyone, it was only himself. No one need know he hadbeen here as the daylight wound down to the dark.He began to walk toward Gage’s grave, taking one of the winding paths. In a moment he was in a lane oftrees; they rustled their new leaves mysteriously over his head. His heart was thudding too loudly in hischest. The graves and monuments were in rough rows. Somewhere there would be a caretaker’sbuilding, and in it would be a map of Pleasantview’s twenty or so acres, neatly and sanely divided intoquadrants, each quadrant showing the occupied graves and the unsold plots. Real estate for sale. Oneroomapartments. Sleepers.Not much like the Pet Sematary, he thought, and this caused him to stop and consider for a moment,surprised. No, it wasn’t. The Pet Sematary had given him an impression of order rising almost unknownout of chaos. Those rough, concentric circles moving inward to the center, rude slates, crosses made outof boards. As if the children who buried their pets there had created the pattern out of their owncollective unconsciousness, as if.For a moment Louis saw the Pet Sematary as a kind of advertisement . . . a come-on, like the kind theygave you on freak alley at the carnival. They’d bring out the fire-eater and you got to watch his show forfree because the owners knew you wouldn’t buy the steak unless you saw the sizzle, you wouldn’t coughup the cash if you didn’t see the flash— Those graves, those graves in their almost Druidic circles.The graves in the Pet Sematary mimed the most ancient religious symbol of all: diminishing circlesindicating a spiral leading down, not to a point, but to infinity; order from chaos or chaos from order,depending on which way your mind worked. It was a symbol the Egyptians had chiseled on the tombs ofthe Pharaohs, a symbol the Phoenicians had drawn on the barrows of theirfallen kings; it was found on cave walls in ancient Mycenae; the guildkings of Stonehenge had created itas a clock to time the universe; it appeared in the Judeo-Christian Bible as the whirlwind from whichGod had spoken to Job.The spiral was the oldest sign of power in the world, man’s oldest symbol of that twisty bridge whichmay exist between the world and the Gulf.Louis reached Gage’s grave at last. The payloader was gone. The Astroturf had been removed, rolled upby some whistling workman with his mind on an after-work beer at the Fairmount Lounge, stored in anequipment shed somewhere. Where Gage lay there was a neat rectangle of bare, raked earth, perhapsfive feet by three feet. The headstone had not been set up yet.file:///E|/Funny%20&%20Weird%20Shit/75%20-%20St...20Books/Stephen%20King%20-%20Pet%20Sematary.htm (228 of 333)7/28/2005 9:21:49 PM