{"id":46267,"date":"2021-03-22T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46267"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:45:18","slug":"lovecraft-at-the-sunrise-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/lovecraft-at-the-sunrise-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft at the Sunrise Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, dipping at random into the new <em>Letters to Family<\/em> books of Lovecraft&#8217;s letters, as yet unread by me in a proper manner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1) I find one H.P. Lovecraft, then editor of <em>The Conservative<\/em>, sitting down to a chicken dinner with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/a-visit-to-211\/\">the radical  Sunrise Club<\/a> in New York City in 1922. He had been invited along as a guest by Morton. The meeting was on &#8216;pro and anti-censorship&#8217;. Lovecraft found the speakers risible, shallow and presenting no real logical arguments, except for a crude fellow called &#8220;Rinn&#8221; (interrupting though not a speaker, seemingly)* and a far more rigorous and longer contribution from Morton. This suggests that &mdash; even in his older years &mdash; Morton may have had more influence, intellectually and via his public speaking, than might be assumed from a perusal of his earlier pamphlets. I&#8217;ve updated the post slightly.<\/p>\n<p>2) Also in <em>Letters to Family<\/em>, the fact that Lovecraft extensively covered the Brooklyn Museum for a second time in 1922, doing it thoroughly than before. Thus he must have seen the giant octopus (seen recent posts) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-tentacles-in-brooklyn\/\">the Invertebrates Hall at that time<\/a>. Again, I&#8217;ve updated the post slightly.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8211; Joseph Francis Rinn (1868-1952), American magician most active in the early decades of the 20th century, author of <em>Sixty Years of Psychical Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, dipping at random into the new Letters to Family books of Lovecraft&#8217;s letters, as yet unread by me &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/22\/lovecraft-at-the-sunrise-club\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46267","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=46267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}