Jojo Lapin X Wrote:
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> Oh, and unlike Joshi, he either knew already, or
> was able to find out, what Irem, the City of
> Pillars, is.
Again?! As I pointed out to you four years ago (!), (1) there are two annotators of
More Annotated Lovecraft and you don't know who wrote the offending footnote, (2) at the time Joshi demonstrably knew what Irem is. At worst, Messrs. Cannon & Joshi can be charged with careless writing, not ignorance.
Quote:Martinus
There is a footnote on Irem in More Annotated Lovecraft; it describes Irem as an "ancient Arabian city, first mentioned in Lovecraft's tale 'The Nameless City'". However, I don't see this as an unambiguous statement that HPL came up with Irem. But I admit that its wording is a bit clumsy and could be taken to mean that "The Nameless City" is the first appearance of the name anywhere, instead of (as is obviously intended) its first appearance in a Lovecraft tale.
Quote:Martinus
Then we can certainly charge Joshi (or possibly Peter Cannon, since there are two annotators) with careless writing, but not with ignorance. More Annotated lovecraft appeared in 1999, three years after Joshi showed quite clearly in H. P. Lovecraft: A life that he is well aware of Lovecraft's Commonplace Book entry in which Lovecraft quotes Encyclopedia Britannica on Irem.
In summary, that is a thoroughly dead horse you are flogging.