{"id":12245,"date":"2014-07-25T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T06:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2022-04-25T01:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:25:39","slug":"the-location-of-juan-romero-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/25\/the-location-of-juan-romero-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The location of “Juan Romero”: update"},"content":{"rendered":"

New ending for my short topographical note of September 2013, titled “The location of “Juan Romero”: Area 52″<\/a>. Scratch the couple of sentences speculating on how Lovecraft might have learned of the area, and replace with…<\/p>\n

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How did Lovecraft come to know of the area? He appears to have been inspired in his choice of a desert setting by reading an amateur journalism author he named in a letter as ‘Phil Mac’ (Prof. Philip B. McDonald), who had apparently used a similar desert \/ mining setting, but for a \u201ccommonplace adventure yarn\u201d (Lord of a Visible World<\/em>, p.69). It seems Lovecraft had copied out a \u201cdull\u201d and \u201ccommonplace adventure yarn\u201d sent to him by McDonald, intending to send the copy to his correspondence circle with a detailed critique of his own. But then he decided to just spend a day writing his own story based on the same or similar setting, and he then sent out both… \u201cYouze gazinks have seen both Mac\u2019s and my yarns.\u201d <\/p>\n

Philip B. McDonald graduated M.E. (Master of Engineering) from Michigan College of Mines. In Lovecraft’s The Conservative<\/em>, McDonald was stated to be \u201cAssistant Professor of Engineering English, University of Colorado\u201d in July 1918, though he later moved to New York to become assistant professor of English, New York University. It appears he was the husband of the noted amateur journalist Edna Hyde McDonald (\u201cVondy\u201d). McDonald\u2019s desert story was not used in Lovecraft\u2019s The Conservative<\/em> and seems not to exist today, nor any of his fiction. So we don\u2019t know how closely Lovecraft used, or not, what he called \u201cthe richly significant setting\u201d of McDonald\u2019s \u201cdull yarn\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New ending for my short topographical note of September 2013, titled “The location of “Juan Romero”: Area 52″. Scratch the …<\/p>\n

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