{"id":37441,"date":"2020-04-24T05:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=37441"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T02:35:32","slug":"picture-postals-the-great-clock-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/picture-postals-the-great-clock-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture postals: Brown, the “great clock tower”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a pleasing 1906 sidewalk view of the clock tower at the corner of the Brown campus, much as Lovecraft could have seen it through the trees on various summer night-walks. It was on a corner, and thus accessible for the nocturnal pedestrian to view.<\/p>\n

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One can imagine what his imagination might have briefly made of it, seen in the dead of a summer’s night, all tree-shadowed in faint moonlight and with a glitter of stars behind it.<\/p>\n

The first part of Lovecraft’s tribute “To Klarkash-Ton, Lord of Averoigne” fits such a night-viewing. Lovecraft’s poem was first published in Weird Tales<\/em> in April 1938<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Lovecraft later lived nearby — ‘just around corner’, in effect — and this tower could also be seen from the upper windows at his last home of 66 College Street…<\/p>\n

The main Brown campus with its great clock tower can be seen from our easterly windows<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a pleasing 1906 sidewalk view of the clock tower at the corner of the Brown campus, much as Lovecraft …<\/p>\n

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