by Helpless_victim
for the darkness surrounding a stone tower. Oh, but I know, you don't mean that the tangible "pitch" surrounds, you refer to vacuous space surround. But pitch, as you know, is the tarlike substance used for small organically based structures and since we're building a structure here, made out of metaphor and symbol and yah yah, pitch gives the sense relation to that which holds together a straw roof and margaret thatcher's bloomers, so to conclude with my argument: Describing the darkness surrounding a hut with the word "pitch" is opportune, while using "pitch" to describe the darkness surrounding a stone tower may be as misguided as the language of a renaissance fair in upstate new york.