{"id":10770,"date":"2014-06-10T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T12:35:34","slug":"david-v-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/10\/david-v-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"David V. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the man who kept Lovecraft in steady revision work through the mid 1920s.  Lovecraft revised a whole lot of Bush&#8217;s poetry, and sometimes also wrote whole chapters of Bush&#8217;s homespun popular psychology pamphlets and books &mdash; such as two or three chapters for <em>Applied Psychology and Scientific Living<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bush1924.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/bush1924.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"bush1924\" width=\"529\" height=\"741\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10772\" \/><\/a>Ad in the front pages ads section of <em>Popular Science<\/em>, Jan 1924.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably Lovecraft wasn&#8217;t invited to ghost Bush&#8217;s sex manuals such as <em>Psychology of Sex: How to Make Love and Marry<\/em> (c.1924), with chapters such as &#8220;What To Do On The Wedding Night, And Why Not To Be Ashamed Of One&#8217;s Sexual Urges&#8221;. One does, though, wonder if Bush may have felt Lovecraft eminently suited to ghost-write his pamphlet <em>Spunk (How to Lick Fear)<\/em> (c. early 1924).  Here it is noted that it is &#8220;declared to be the masterpiece&#8221; of Bush&#8217;s work.  Hyperbolic sales talk, perhaps, but if Lovecraft had tackled it &mdash; writing on a subject he was expert on &mdash; then it might indeed have been rather a good read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/fear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/fear.jpg\" alt=\"fear\" width=\"205\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10771\" \/><\/a><em>Popular Science<\/em>, July 1926.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the man who kept Lovecraft in steady revision work through the mid 1920s. Lovecraft revised a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/10\/david-v-bush\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}