9225. INOCULATION

9225. INOCULATION
With the furnace yet running they set off to garner enough fuel to continue it so and these basement floods were sometimes more of a pain than anything else but they had to be dealt with for these guys were heavy workers and they knew pretty much just what to do  -  a few more old beams taken from the site being demolished on 9th whether they were coated or not with pitch-pine or tar they'd burn well enough and the rest of the building no matter the wet in the basement could at the least remain something like warm and no one here really cared anyway for there were but a loom and a cutter and the rest now was open floor-way where the sculptor played and the only use for an old abandoned building such as this could be for the taking and the use all other industry having moved out and that's what artists were for anyway  -  use of auspicious space whether legal or not so on it all went and this guy was a broad metal sculptor welding and flaming and cutting and torching so everything had to be watched carefully just in case and the three floors above them were also empty except when people came in to sleep but no one could really live there without water or any further heat especially in this January time but even though that was so people came so they just tried to keep this crazy burning flame fire going in a protected metal pit they'd dropped into the massive wood floor  -  if a fire marshal or anybody in the know like ever came back yeah there'd be a problem bu nothing another hundred bucks couldn't fix they hoped or booze or even a woman for a while and the only law in 1970 was that Soho had no laws everything was abandoned and falling in and if you could get something you should take it  - space place room to work living quarters and the rest the street here had little going on it was amazing what was left  -  and all these grand ancient buildings of brick stone steel and metal had factory windows gigantic street fronts heavy-load floors loading ramps and the rest but everything was gone and vacant with not even a shoe factory left and just rats running 'round it may have been harsh but it was easy too - there was no law and what there was just wound up looking the other way and the real estate guys they were already Long Island mangled and used their decrepit abandoned holdings as loss-holdouts and never much cared except when they had to especially about titles and liens and  insurance stipulations but again all of that could be paid off just another notch up the payoff scale and that's what these guys did for their living anyway  -  money rolling all over the place and things bought and sold for their potential loss as much as for any potential profit and with mob guys needing space and sometimes mob guys needing place to hide or to beat or to cut up other mob guys and get them out this was all great stuff and if they had to have it go down well then it'll go down just try and get the people out first okay and that's what we do the best these sorts of tasks and we can burn pretty precisely just right where and what we want but please just get the people out first I don't care what they say or object to but I won't knowingly start anything unless the people are out first and I have to know that so it's all ready if you say so and once I light this it should take about 3 minutes maybe to run the course and widen out to fan the spread and start climbing the two walls there first and then when the glass blows out that too should perfectly fan the rear corner to more evenly spread the flame over the area I soaked and  -  be sure the people are out  -  I'm gone.