[HN Gopher] Shell Grotto, Margate
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       Shell Grotto, Margate
        
       Author : Michelangelo11
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2025-11-05 07:32 UTC (11 days ago)
        
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       | jamest wrote:
       | It was not on my bingo card to see the Shell Grotto on HN.
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       | I loved this place as a kid and would marvel at the patterns.
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       | The air of mystery around who made it and why invites some fun
       | speculation.
        
       | gabriel666smith wrote:
       | I'm about a mile from this right now.
       | 
       | The grotto is unpleasant - absolutely, in my opinion, a Victorian
       | (give or take) rich man's folly, per the Wiki.
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       | The imagery is all faux-Mediaeval - mostly the standard utter
       | nonsense Rosicrucian 'interpretation' of Kabbalistic symbols.
       | It's very bullshit, edgy, Hot-Topic-Victorian silly stuff.
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       | Except for where, at the Malkuth mark, IIRC, it opens up into a
       | sort of temple-and-altar situation, where it is actually somewhat
       | frightening, in the way that any secret Bacchanalian temple is,
       | because nobody builds that sort of thing for a good reason.
        
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