{"id":42991,"date":"2020-10-16T05:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=42991"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T17:01:40","slug":"picture-postals-from-lovecraft-westerly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-westerly\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Picture postals’ from Lovecraft: Westerly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, a postcard to accompany the recent Voluminous<\/em> podcast reading of “I Am Home”<\/a>. The letter being Lovecraft’s ecstatic recounting of his returning to Providence by rail, from what he had come to think of as the ‘pest-zone’ of New York City. As the train sped through Westerly he finally felt he was coming home…<\/p>\n

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Then at last a still subtler magick fill’d the air — nobler roofs and steeples, with the train rushing airily above them on its lofty viaduct — Westerly — in His Majesty’s Providence of RHODE-ISLAND & PROVIDENCE-PLANTATIONS! GOD SAVE THE KING!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly there was a “Wolf’s Den” at or near Westerly (often mis-named as “Westerely”), though he may never have visited it.<\/p>\n

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The best is can get is …<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to investigate Chauncey. Westerly coaches pass through Hope Valley (so do the New York Greyhounds), but the fare is probably rather formidable.\u201d \u2014 letter to Morton, January 1933.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But perhaps he never made it there. Poverty led him to write to Morton in June 1930 that…<\/p>\n

I fear desperately that I can’t quite make the Westerly jaunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There seems no other evidence he visited. Perhaps Westerly remained always a tantalising stop on the train line to Providence, at which he never alighted? A local place that, like Block Island, he should have visited but didn’t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, a postcard to accompany the recent Voluminous podcast reading of “I Am Home”. The letter being Lovecraft’s ecstatic …<\/p>\n

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