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- From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
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- Subject: Re: The other Innsmouths
- Message-ID: <Dec.21.16.00.40.1992.5485@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:00:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.031725.2051@news.mentorg.com>
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- bcannard@hppcb36.mentorg.com (The Human Mi-Go) writes:
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- >But my researches indicate that there are at least 2 other Innsmouths.
- >The first is a sleepy, half-deserted fishing village on the south coast of
- >Cornwall, England. King Kuranes of Dreamlands fame was born nearby. The second
- >is a copy constructed by Kuranes in the Dreamlands, near Celephais.
- ...
- >The questions are (1) have I got this right, and (2) if so, does anyone
- >have any idea which real Cornish fishing village might have been the
- >prototype for this place?
-
- Certainly the Innsmouth, England, is solidly established. But this is the
- first I've heard of Kuranes's copy also being called "Innsmouth".
-
- From my reading of DREAM-QUEST, I understood the copy to be of Kuranes's
- ancestral home (Trevor Towers) and surrounding village (which would be
- Innsmouth), but this was all part of Celephais and not a separate village in
- the Dreamlands.
-
- Which village might have been the prototype? Certainly not Goole, which is in
- the north-east. I don't know that HPL expressed an interest in *any* Cornish
- fishing village. However, it is significant that Kuranes lost his ancestral
- home to "a fat, millionaire brewer"---a situation similar to the Lovecraft
- having to move out of *his* ancestral home in Providence after the death of his
- grandfather. By that reasoning, the prototype for Kuranes's "Innsmouth" may
- have been Providence, RI!
-
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- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
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- Chris Jarocha-Ernst Rutgers University Computing Services
- Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC
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