{"id":24276,"date":"2019-04-12T05:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=24276"},"modified":"2019-04-12T05:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:42:41","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-view-from-prospect-terrace-ultrawide-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/12\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-view-from-prospect-terrace-ultrawide-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday picture postals from Lovecraft: the View from Prospect Terrace (ultrawide edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an ultrawide double-sized fold-out postcard of the View from Prospect Terrace, Providence. This was, of course, a favourite Lovecraft place. Especially when the city and sky burned with a fine sunset. Presumably also in that quiet time when most of the Terrace’s talkative daytime sitters had gone home for their tea, and the evening lovebirds had not yet arrived…<\/p>\n

to me the quality of total, perfect beauty [is] a mass of mystical city towers and roofs and spires outlined against a sunset and glimpsed from a fairly distant balaustraded terrace. (Selected Letters III)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This postcard, wide though it is, was obviously cropped from an even wider plate as can be seen here…<\/p>\n

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The old Providence view from Prospect Terrace…<\/p>\n

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Here’s an ultrawide double-sized fold-out postcard of the View from Prospect Terrace, Providence. This was, of course, a favourite Lovecraft …<\/p>\n

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