{"id":48988,"date":"2021-08-20T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=48988"},"modified":"2022-04-24T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T16:58:08","slug":"an-index-for-the-book-the-ancient-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/an-index-for-the-book-the-ancient-track\/","title":{"rendered":"On Lovecraft&#8217;s 131st birthday &#8211; an index for his poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On H.P Lovecraft&#8217;s 131st birthday, I&#8217;m pleased to present my offering to the Master. An Index for the book <em>The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> (second revised edition). I had often felt the lack of a &#8216;topic, imagery, place and name&#8217; index for this 600-page volume, so I made one. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/pdfs\/hpl_poetry_index_2021.pdf\">Download<\/a> (PDF). Version 1.1, August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 3,000 words as a 32-page PDF file, and as such it should be feasible to print as a little imposition-software booklet and slip between card covers. Or upload it to a POD booklet printer. Note that it&#8217;s not under Creative Commons and is not for re-sale, please.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the Guild of Indexers will not be sending me a gilt-edged invitation card to their annual Christmas Ball, on seeing this. I did it my way, without poring over weighty manuals on indexing, but it should be perfectly serviceable for Lovecraftian look-ups. There are no line-numbers though, as that would have added far too much extra work. Thus you will need to skim down the page to find the item being searched for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On H.P Lovecraft&#8217;s 131st birthday, I&#8217;m pleased to present my offering to the Master. An Index for the book The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/an-index-for-the-book-the-ancient-track\/\">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":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988","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=48988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53690,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48988\/revisions\/53690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}