David Cherney (also David Czerny, “Doctor Charly”) is the old director and master of the Sons of Labor Lodge in 1920s–1930s Buenos Aires, a generation before the Malvinas gesta (campaign-cycle). By 1966 he is no longer a man but a lead.
| Type | Character |
| Origin | European; a Czech psychiatrist |
| Spanish entry | David Cherney |
Lodge master
Cherney, “big but very wise”, presided over the lodge thirty or forty years before 1966. According to Malnati, he was tied to the La Boca artists (one Lindner is named) and, indirectly, to Borges through Victoria Ocampo. The same thread holds the unsolved disappearance of a girl, Beatriz Guerrero, which the lodge touched from afar.
The sect, the book and the record
In 1920s Buenos Aires a sect of the blind, a hidden book the sect kept or pursued, and a lost record (ficha) are entangled, and Cherney headed the lodge when they crossed. A member of the 1966 group keeps a copy of that record. Through it the old case reopens when the Argentines of Operativo Cóndor, already touched by what sleeps beneath the Malvinas, find that the southern horror has an old Buenos Aires root.
The 1922 gesta
The thread is the gesta Cthulhu Buenos Aires. There Czerny, the Czech psychiatrist who directed the lodge’s Study Center, sends investigators after the collective vision left by the rite to Hastur that Borges and Xul Solar performed at Villa Ocampo. The missing girl is Beatriz Guerrero; the sect, the blind of Vidal Olmos; the book, the Necronomicon; the city of the vision, Carcosa. That gesta was left unfinished, as the prelude to the southern gesta.