{"id":46432,"date":"2021-03-27T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46432"},"modified":"2021-03-27T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:36:45","slug":"subways-street-lights-and-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/subways-street-lights-and-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Subways, street lights and superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More brief notes on interesting items gleaned from <em>Letters to Family<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Lovecraft&#8217;s experience of New York City subway travel was likely not the same in 1922 as in 1924-26, due the carriage types. He appears to have been at the cusp of a changeover in the types, from old to modern. In 1922 he remarks on the very old hand-crafted and very large carriages. He preferred travelling on the largest and most palatial of these, and went out of his way to do so.<\/p>\n<p>* Providence had good strong street-lighting at night by 1922, not always the case in comparable provincial cities. Relevant to the inclination to take Providence night-walks, with Eddy and alone.<\/p>\n<p>* In spring 1924 Lovecraft researched and wrote three chapters of a book on &#8220;American superstitions&#8221;. This was prior to his work for Houdini, and his own <em>Supernatural Literature<\/em>. There is no footnote detailing the fate of this text, though possibly I&#8217;ll encounter more details on later pages. I&#8217;d suspect it was later rolled into the Houdini work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More brief notes on interesting items gleaned from Letters to Family&#8230; * Lovecraft&#8217;s experience of New York City subway travel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/subways-street-lights-and-superstitions\/\">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-46432","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\/46432","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=46432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}