Megapolisomancy: Mega-Polis-Mancy: the magic of metropolises: A term coined in 1890 by Thibault De Castries in the "forbidden" book: Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities. I had to, at all costs, discover what all this meant. Was it perhaps a game of the mind, making you see cities with different eyes? Or was it a secret reality, something forbidden, something no one talks about? No one knew anything about all this. No one except me... Above all, it was an eccentric chimera. A new very big mystery, a new art or a new science. I don't know if I really wanted to become its prophet, but the City Mages and the ghosts of some of my favorite authors trapped me in its visions. Mysteries are never revealed to seekers, from the shadows the mysteries watch them as they walk through the city, the Paranoetic Entities know you are searching for them, the metropolis knows you are lost within its titanic cryptogram. It sees you with myriad invisible eyes. The metropolis watches me, it is alive, it knows I am spying on it, it knows I went out for the great and mysterious patrol… I will explore all the secrets of Megapolisomancy. If I manage to find the exit from this labyrinth, I will betray its map to everyone… If not, I hope you won't have to search as much for me as I searched for the Black Pythagoras. Perhaps you will see me wandering through the city, unknown among strangers. No passerby will be able to imagine what I am preparing… A new urban metaphysics for the 21st century. And, at the same time, a new kind of novel, the fantastic literature of the new millennium.