{"id":581,"date":"2010-08-05T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2010-08-05T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T09:42:28","slug":"lovecrafts-plan-of-his-grandfathers-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/05\/lovecrafts-plan-of-his-grandfathers-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft\u2019s plan of his grandfather\u2019s\u00a0study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Perridas <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisperridas.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/lovecraft-sketch-l-w-currey-auction.html\">posts news<\/a> of a most unusual item, Lovecraft&#8217;s own annotated wall plan of his grandfather&#8217;s study, which along with the attic library is the &#8216;ground zero&#8217; of 20th century horror. Unfortunately the online scans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwcurrey.com\/magazine.php?author=Lovecraft%2C+H[oward]+P[hillips].\">at L.W. Perry<\/a> are too small to read. I&#8217;ve enlarged them and sharpened as best I can.  You can make out what some of the labels say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/wall-plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/wall-plan.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" title=\"wall-plan\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems there was a whole wall of cat\/kitten paintings, which Lovecraft dubs &#8220;Kitten Row&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see this space and the 2000-volume attic library (strong joists! *) faithfully recreated via a videogame engine, so we could &#8220;step inside it&#8221;.  Many of the library&#8217;s volumes must now also have been scanned and placed online by Google and others &mdash; would it also be possible to recreate the book collection in &#8220;virtual form&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>( * although the attic was apparently only a store-room or sub-library for the older books of the library)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Perridas posts news of a most unusual item, Lovecraft&#8217;s own annotated wall plan of his grandfather&#8217;s study, which along &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/05\/lovecrafts-plan-of-his-grandfathers-study\/\">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-581","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\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}