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There are a number of different pronunciations possible for Bothon, and no hints in the text or anywhere else that I could find as to how the authors expected us to pronounce it. There …
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There are a number of different pronunciations possible for Bothon, and no hints in the text or anywhere else that I could find as to how the authors expected us to pronounce it. There are hardly even any other narrations of the story out there, so I don't even have much in the way of what others have fancied it to be. Oh well. Please, you authors out there, PLEASE, give us hints on how you expect the names of your characters to be pronounced! Bothon is not a real name in the real world, and there are too many possibilities for anybody to know what you had in mind when you came up with the name. A footnote, a glossary, and appendix, *something* with a guide to pronunciations, I beg of you!
The Hippodrome in New York City hasn't been a thing since 1939. This story was written in 1946, so clearly the authors are recalling a NYC that no longer existed even at the time they wrote this tale.
And physical print newspapers! This will be terribly confusing to people in the not too distant future! HA!
While it is difficult to find information about this text, I get the feeling this is primarily Whitehead's work, and Lovecraft must have only done some minor edits. Possibly Lovecraft provided some of the themes as well?
The pictures used is by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou, and is of Professor Aronnax and Captain Nemo visiting the remains of Atlantis in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. A bit of a liberty to use it for this story, but not many pictures of the destruction of Atlantis out there, at least that are freely usable.
To follow along: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bothon
