{"id":35129,"date":"2020-02-11T05:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35129"},"modified":"2020-02-11T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T02:26:18","slug":"in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"In Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesoleil.com\/opinions\/carrefour-des-lecteurs\/h-p-lovecraft-et-quebec-5ce0692ed09e427a5862718475af0c9b\">small commemoration<\/a> of Lovecraft&#8217;s epic trek to and around old Quebec, and also his subsequent extended travelogue and (effectively) guide-book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never have I beheld anything else like it, &amp; never do I expect to! &#8230; I can scarcely believe that the place belongs to the waking world at all. A mighty headland rising out of a mile-broad river &amp; topped by a mediaeval fortress\u2014city walls of cyclopean masonry scaling vertical cliffs or towering above green table-lands \u2014 great arching city gates &amp; frowning bastions \u2014 huddles of pointed red-tiled roofs &amp; silver belfries &amp; steeples \u2014 archaic lanes winding uphill or lurking in the beetling shadow of precipices&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The walls in landscape context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/walls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/walls.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lower and Upper Town, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lower.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lane in Lower Town in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lower-town-1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lower-town-1920.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"497\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View over Lower Town in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lowertown50s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lowertown50s.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small commemoration of Lovecraft&#8217;s epic trek to and around old Quebec, and also his subsequent extended travelogue and (effectively) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/in-quebec\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129","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=35129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}