@article{787823,
      recid = {787823},
      author = {Shershow, Scott Cutler, and Michaelsen, Scott},
      title = {The love of ruins : letters on Lovecraft /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) :},
      abstract = {"H. P. Lovecraft's daily life revolved around  correspondence. He is estimated to have written 100,000  letters in his relatively short lifetime, and 20,000 of  these letters survive. ... The following is a sequence of  thirty-four letters about the work of H.P. Lovecraft, each  one written from Scott to Scott, who have been writing  letters to each other for more than thirty years. ... It  should be noted that the texts that follow both are and are  not "real" letters. On the one hand, all of them originated  as actual missives composed by one of us and sent to the  other over the course of almost exactly one year; and some  of them retain traces of the specific occasions in which  they were thus written and sent. On the other hand, all of  these letters have also been revised, rethought, reordered,  by both of us, working at times on the other's work, to the  point that these texts are necessarily unmoored from their  literal points of origin. Many of the letters have  footnotes -- some written by that letter's author and some  by the other Scott. Thus this book is explicitly about  questions of dialogue and voice: how many voices are there  in a dialogue between some Scotts? The answer, no doubt, is  that there are always less than and more than two. ... This  first in this series of letters was written on 1 August  2014, the 180th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in  the British Empire, and the 178th anniversary of Charles  Darwin's arrival in Bahia, Brazil, fresh from his voyage on  the HMS Beagle. The final letter was written on July 15,  2015, the same date as the dedication of the Temple of  Castor and Pollux in 484 BCE. Lovecraft had a special  fondness for the story of these cultic twins, whose temple  remains today in ruins."--Preface.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/787823},
}