{"id":56538,"date":"2022-09-15T03:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T03:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56538"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:46:05","slug":"lovecrafts-letters-geo-located","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/lovecrafts-letters-geo-located\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s letters geo-located"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s letters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.correspondence.ie\/index.php?letters_function=4&#038;see_maps=1&#038;letters_search_term=LOVECRAFT%2C+HOWARD+P.&#038;letters_idno=0\">geo-located<\/a>. Sadly it&#8217;s &#8220;one-record, one map point&#8221;, rather than the some vast seething tentacular web of points and connections. Still, the database wranglers appear to have done the basic work, parsing the structured records \/ list published by the Providence-based archives. Thus it may be possible to get just the Lovecraft data out, and then have software make it into a visual map. The correspondence.ie Web site does have visualisations, but I couldn&#8217;t spot one on the list for Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>A simpler and more creative task would be an artistic wall-chart map showing all his known correspondents, with a uniformly hand-drawn portrait of each (if their appearance is known). The size of the portrait would indicate the size \/ duration \/ importance of the correspondence. With small arrows to indicate any notable non-Lovecraft correspondence with other members of the Circle. With insets on the map to cover New York City, California, the British Isles and the British Empire, etc. In fact, such a big wall-map might be a nice incentive to boost sales of the forthcoming mega-index covering all of Lovecraft&#8217;s letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s letters geo-located. Sadly it&#8217;s &#8220;one-record, one map point&#8221;, rather than the some vast seething tentacular web of points and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/lovecrafts-letters-geo-located\/\">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":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56538","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=56538"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56548,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56538\/revisions\/56548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}