{"id":53438,"date":"2022-03-26T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=53438"},"modified":"2025-02-22T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:49:06","slug":"el-pais-on-el-astronomicon-y-otros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/el-pais-on-el-astronomicon-y-otros\/","title":{"rendered":"El Pais on El Astronomicon Y Otros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist Spanish newspaper <em>El Pais<\/em> has the article \u201cH.P. Lovecraft\u2019s thirst for scientific darkness\u201d.  The Spanish-language article muses on the new book in titled <em>El Astronomicon Y Otros Textes En Defense De La Ciencia<\/em> (\u2018The Astronomicon and Other Texts in Defence of Science\u2019).  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image_p01_24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This translates Lovecraft\u2019s various writing on astronomy and the Moon and also his public tussles with a local astrologer.  I\u2019m uncertain if it also has relevant extracts from the private letters.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This volume has an introduction by its translator, Oscar Mariscal.  He introduces us to a Lovecraft who has been little-known, until now.  This is Lovecraft the popularizer and defender of the science of astronomy.  In these texts the world first sees this introverted young man\u2019s hunger and thirst for a world of scientific knowledge, and glimpses a tormented inner life that will in time give rise to a cosmos of viscous monsters and star headed terrors \u2026 terrors capable of reaching across the cosmos and into the depths of our unconscious souls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This commercial book was aided by an arts grant from the Ministry of Culture, something almost impossible to imagine happening in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist Spanish newspaper El Pais has the article \u201cH.P. Lovecraft\u2019s thirst for scientific darkness\u201d. The Spanish-language article muses on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/26\/el-pais-on-el-astronomicon-y-otros\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438","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=53438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65651,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53438\/revisions\/65651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}