{"id":40033,"date":"2020-07-13T05:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=40033"},"modified":"2020-07-13T05:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T02:03:58","slug":"all-life-might-well-be-a-trifling-pimple-or-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/all-life-might-well-be-a-trifling-pimple-or-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All life might well be a trifling pimple or disease&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Voluminous<\/em> podcast dips into Lovecraft&#8217;s letters to his aunts, to find one on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hplhs.org\/voluminous.php\">&#8220;Laundry and Influenza&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Written during his time in New York, this letter to HPL&#8217;s Aunt Lillian discusses &#8230; the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet listened to the podcast yet, and perhaps the presenters verbally state where the letter is from.  But I have the <em>Letters from New York<\/em> volume, and there&#8217;s no entry for &#8216;Influenza&#8217; in the index.  A Google Books search hints (without a snippet) it <em>might<\/em> be in <em>Selected Letters<\/em> 1, but Joshi&#8217;s index booklet (2nd ed.) for the <em>Selected Letters<\/em> has no entry at all for &#8216;Influenza&#8217;, and my quick flick-through of Vol. 1 in paper fails to identify a letter that appears to mention the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably all will be revealed when we get the indexed and annotated &#8216;aunts letters&#8217;, due later this summer in two volumes from Hippocampus.  <em>Update: I&#8217;ve now listened to the show, and yes, it&#8217;s from this forthcoming book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, I see that Hippocampus is now newly listing No. 27 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hippocampuspress.com\/journals\/dead-reckonings\/dead-reckonings-no.-27\">Dead Reckonings: A Review of Horror and the Weird in the Arts<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Voluminous podcast dips into Lovecraft&#8217;s letters to his aunts, to find one on &#8220;Laundry and Influenza&#8221;&#8230; Written during his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/all-life-might-well-be-a-trifling-pimple-or-disease\/\">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":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033","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=40033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}