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On Lovecraft's birth
>"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 A.M. on August 20, 1890, at 194 Angell Street on what was then the eastern edge of the East Side of Providence."
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On Lovecraft's earliest memory
>"I can see myself as a child of 2-and-a-half on the railway bridge at Auburndale, Mass., looking across and downward at the business part of the town, and feeling the imminence of some wonder which I could neither describe nor fully conceive - and there has never been a subsequent hour of my life when kindred sensations have been absent."
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On young Lovecraft's love of toys
>"My favorite toys were very small ones, which would permit of their arrangement in widely extensive scenes. My mode of play was to devote an entire table-top to a scene, which I would proceed to develop as a broad landscape [...] I had all sorts of toy villages with small wooden or cardboard houses, & by combining several of them would often construct cities of considerable extent & intricacy [...] There was a kind of intoxication in being lord of a visible world (albeit a miniature one) & determining the flow of its events."
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