Category: Thought

“Dr. Whipple was a sane, conservative physician of the old school. … He lived with one man-servant in a Georgian homestead with knocker and iron-railed steps, balanced eerily on a steep ascent of North Court Street beside the ancient brick court and colony house where his grandfather … had voted in the legislature on May 4, 1776, for the independence of the Rhode-Island Colony.” #lovecraft #providence

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“The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of the tinted stratus clouds that barred the flaming sky.” #lovecraft #providence

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“… the air of tension observable in the young recluse whenever he did venture briefly forth was such as to excite the keenest speculation. Once he made a hasty trip to the Athenaeum for a book he required, and again he hired a messenger to fetch him a highly obscure volume from Boston.” #lovecraft #providence

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