tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post2362557387378281121..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: WORMWOODIANAJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-75694475219329004552009-08-03T05:21:51.183-07:002009-08-03T05:21:51.183-07:00A little know-it-all correction:
"I now beli...A little know-it-all correction:<br /><br />"I now believe they are instead pictures of Dunsany as he appeared during the years covered by those volumes, so that (for example) the photograph of Dunsany that appears in the middle volume -- my favorite image of him, the only one which makes him look like an author -- probably shows him as he was at age forty, when the book opens, rather than nearing sixty, as he was when it was published."<br /><br />When <i>While the Sirens Slept</i> was published, Dunsany had already left sixty a few years behind him; he was born in 1878, so was 66 at the time.Magisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903799437411528229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-85365838572592811752009-08-01T15:58:35.716-07:002009-08-01T15:58:35.716-07:00Thanks for the link and the marvellous image!
In ...Thanks for the link and the marvellous image!<br /><br />In regards to Dunsany's colouring: H. P. Lovecraft saw him lecture in Boston in October 1919, and mentions his "abundant light brown hair", so at that time he hadn't yet gone grey.Magisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07903799437411528229noreply@blogger.com