3. Timelines
01.–22.03.
daily visits/reports of Wilcox to Angell
02.
22.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
01. April
28.
23.03.–02.04.
with average people:
»scattered cases of
uneasy but formless
nocturnal
impressions« (41)
23.03.–02.04.
Wilcox failes to appear at Angell’s on March 23rd
and »had manifested since then only alternations
of unconsciousness and delirium.« (40) Angell
»from that time forward kept close watch of the
case« (40).
23.03.–02.04.
with aesthetes:
»intensity of the dreams
being immeasurably
the stronger« (41)
03.
09.
02.–09.04. »my uncle kept no record of his night-thoughts after a week of
pointless and irrelevant accounts of thoroughly usual visions« (40)
12.
18.04 Vigilant arrives in Darling Harbour with Alert in tow.
18.
12.04 The »battled and disabled« (53) Alert« (53) is sighted by the Vigilant
»with one living and one dead man abord« (53).
25.03 Vigilant leaves Valparaiso.
freighter Vigilant (Valparaiso)
heavily armed steam yacht Alert (Dunedin)
two-masted schooner Emma (Auckland)
Legend
20. February
20.02. Emma sails from Auckland for Callao
22.03. Emma encounters the Alert, is attacked by her and defeats her but sinks.
The Emma’s crew takes the Alert.
23.03. Crew of the Emma (on Alert) lands on R’lyeh; 6 men die.
23.
22.–23.03. Wilcox gets sick in the night (»obscure sort of fever« (40))
01.03. Emma driven south by storm.
01.03. Alert sets sail in great haste from
Dunedin right after earthquake.
01. March
28.02.–22.03.
with aesthetes:
dreams of »very
bizarre things« (41)
02.
02.04. 3pm »every trace of Wilcox’s malady suddenly ceased.« (40)
»All traces of strange dreaming had vanished with his recovery« (40)
02.04. Vigilant is driven south by heavy storms and huge waves.
R’lyeh
⇧
R’lyeh
⇩
Cthulhu
28.02.–01.03. earthquake; Wilcox dreams and
creates the bas-relief in the night;
01.03. Wilcox visits Angell
??.04. Vigilant sails over the spot under which R’lyeh lies deep in the water.
03.
Overview
• 1860 Webb’s tour to Greenland and Iceland
• 01.11.1907 Legrasse and the swamp cult
• 1908 Legrasse at the archaeological conference
• 1925 Angell/Wilcox and the sea incident (see overview below)
(spring 1925: »outré, mental illnesses and outbreaks of group folly or mania« (38))
• 1926–27 (winter) death of Angell
• 1927ff. (?) manuscript of Thurston
3. Timelines
1925