{"id":44223,"date":"2021-01-05T20:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44223"},"modified":"2021-01-05T20:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:42:35","slug":"travel-in-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/01\/05\/travel-in-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel in 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extracted and cleaned by me from a new magazine upload at Archive.org, here is transport as it was envisioned in Lovecraft’s final year by an illustrator whose name appears to be “Glenn Grore”…<\/p>\n

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… made all the more interesting today by the slightly sinister black beetle-shape of the car in the bottom-left (one thinks of the “beetle-race” that Lovecraft had supplanting humanity), and the glimpse of a giant airship in the top-left.<\/p>\n

Possibly this could give a creative lead for a book-cover designer, considering how best to tackle a book collection of the very best of Lovecraft’s many travel accounts? I imagine such a book as being accounts of the vehicles and travel itself, rather than the destinations. This would not be without some weird interest, for instance his letter recounting a nightmare involving waiting for a sinister tram-car to start. Such a project might appeal to those who are interested both in vintage transport and transport-history, and in Lovecraft-the-man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extracted and cleaned by me from a new magazine upload at Archive.org, here is transport as it was envisioned in …<\/p>\n

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