{"id":10801,"date":"2014-06-11T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2014-06-11T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T10:40:15","slug":"the-supremacy-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/11\/the-supremacy-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supremacy of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Randy Everts for telling me that an early Lovecraft revision is now scanned and online, <a href=\"http:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t9k36fb6m;view=2up;seq=8\">&#8220;The Supremacy of Life&#8221;<\/a> (1917)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one of the letters to [David V.] Bush dated 20th January 1918 HPL mentions the book he edited (re-wrote) for the Rev. W.S. Harrison of Starkville, Miss., a &#8220;long Miltonic epic in blank verse&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ex2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ex2.jpg\" alt=\"ex2\" width=\"399\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ex1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ex1.jpg?w=419\" alt=\"ex1\" width=\"419\" height=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the revision \/ ghost writing for this work may have prompted Lovecraft to muse upon the possibility of his lost &#8220;Life and Death&#8221; story (c. 1920).  We know of one such instance: apparently working on a Bush revision had, in part, been a prompt for the dream that led to &#8220;Nyarlathotep&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Randy Everts for telling me that an early Lovecraft revision is now scanned and online, &#8220;The Supremacy of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/11\/the-supremacy-of-life\/\">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":[8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","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=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}