...oops. The link problem was on my side; seems it got garbled while posting from my phone. It should be fixed now!
Lovecraft and time is a really fascinating idea to me -- he's so dedicated to his particular kind of antiquated style that it's surprising to have cars, telephones, or modern slang show up. Trying to imagine what music he's thinking of here is a puzzler partly because of that, because the only songs I know from those decades are deeply sentimental and/or religious. (And boy what I wouldn't give to read a Lovecraft story where something treacly like "Oh Promise Me" is playing in the background.)
I think I picked this particular snippet partly because of that: the Spooky Victorian atmosphere he's evoking is one that has popularity now, but he was writing much closer to that actual time.
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Lovecraft and time is a really fascinating idea to me -- he's so dedicated to his particular kind of antiquated style that it's surprising to have cars, telephones, or modern slang show up. Trying to imagine what music he's thinking of here is a puzzler partly because of that, because the only songs I know from those decades are deeply sentimental and/or religious. (And boy what I wouldn't give to read a Lovecraft story where something treacly like "Oh Promise Me" is playing in the background.)
I think I picked this particular snippet partly because of that: the Spooky Victorian atmosphere he's evoking is one that has popularity now, but he was writing much closer to that actual time.