{"id":63960,"date":"2024-04-29T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63960"},"modified":"2024-04-28T18:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:11:43","slug":"ah-sweet-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/ah-sweet-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Sweet Idiocy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fanac.org\/fanzines\/References-Fan_Histories\/asi1.pdf\">&#8220;Ah, Sweet Idiocy!&#8221;<\/a> (1948), being the fan memoirs of Francis T. Laney in a  glorious Gestetner-vision PDF scan. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_190039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_190039-528x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"698\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_190039-528x698.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_190039-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_190039.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He fatefully encountered the Lovecraft-loving Duane Rimel, and begins by giving an evocative account of their friendship and (on pages 4-5) a detailed short biography and pen picture of &#8220;Duane Weldon Rimel&#8221;. As many Lovecraftians will recall, Laney didn&#8217;t stop there. He went on to be editor of the seminal Lovecraft &#8216;zine <em>The Acolyte<\/em>, and here we have the full story in his own words. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_185043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2024-04-28_185043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"698\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63961\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The find of the scanned original led me to <a href=\"https:\/\/taff.org.uk\/ebooks.php\">find the free 2019 PDF and ePub OCR reprint<\/a> in aid of the TAFF fund. The old inky text here becomes plain Times Roman. The new reprint also includes various expansions, explanations of acronyms, and some scholarly apparatus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ah, Sweet Idiocy!&#8221; (1948), being the fan memoirs of Francis T. Laney in a glorious Gestetner-vision PDF scan. He fatefully &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/ah-sweet-idiocy\/\">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-63960","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\/63960","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=63960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63966,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63960\/revisions\/63966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}