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| 2008.11.23 |
Happy
Birthday!, Professor Davenport |
| 2007.11.23 |
deleted:
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Guy Davenport's birthday
is today and also my 30th wedding anniversary.
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The last
update to this page was 12 June 2006 nearly a year and a half ago. Two events
precluded what had been regular updates and revisions to the content of my Guy
Davenport website: a mountain bike crash on Fathers' Day,
Sunday 18
June 2006 and shortly thereafter my house fire Friday 7 July 2006 caused by a faulty
bathroom exhaust fan. Broken ribs 3 through 9 and clavicle on my right side and a
skull fracture at the back of my noggin have mended. Residual stiffness
remains but I work out daily in the lap pool and weight room (and I am again riding my
bike in spite of it all). The house has been renovated and its contents
cleaned and put back in place, at least MOST of the contents. Some things I am
still looking for -- especially three cartons of files that comprise the backup
for this web site. Time does mend all, but then again one cannot make up
for lost time. I do count my blessings. My youngest daughter
Theresa, who was in the house at the time of the fire, was not injured and,
except for some water-damaged books and smoke-damaged furniture and
clothing the house looks as good as new.
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| 2006 01.06 |
Revised my entry for
'Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama' in
Granta 4 (1981). Again,
I must thank
Mario Godwin who sent me a copy of the original 1981 issue of Granta.
I did revise the entry some time ago but
failed to upload the revised page to the Geocities server until now.
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| 2006 01.04 |
Added an
In memoriam quotation to the head of this home page.
Added information about Guy's
last published book,
Wo es war, soll
ich werden
Added to 'parts of books' information about
Dorothy Sutton,
Startling
Art: Darwin and Matisse with a Foreword by Guy Davenport. I found
Professor Sutton's chapbook in my mailbox Christmas Eve 2005 along with
her letter which explained that another Davenport reader, Charles
Godwin, learned of it while
searching the internet for Davenport books. Mr. Godwin requested a
copy of the chapbook for his collection, and then requested a copy be
sent to me. This was indeed a surprising, startling, Christmas
present.
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| 2005 12.02 |
Revised and corrected an error on the
37, avenue Samson page. Replaced 'parabola' with 'ellipse' in the
text to the right of my photograph of Fourier's grave. This was
suggested by John Campbell, a Davenport reader with an astute eye, who noted
that Fourier's tombstone designer was looking for a balanced, closed form
and chose the ellipse. He also may have been alluding to the harmony of the
planetary spheres which travel in ellipses, as described by Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion. "The circle's friends, ellipse is love."
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| 2005.05.18 |
Added the Memorial
Service page to this site.
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| 2005.03.31 |
Added to 'Obituaries' appreciation by Bruce
Bawer , Book Forum
12:1 (Apr-May 2005) p. 50
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| 2005.02.28 |
Added revised Parts of Books section,
changing its label to Contributions to Books
by Others (Parts of Books by Others). I've created a page that lists
ALL by compiler, editor, translator. This page in turn links to
four other pages which sub-divide as follows:
A -- F ; G -- K ; L -- R ; S -- Z
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| 2005.02.24 |
Added revised Books-Pams page with both
chronological and alphabetical listings. Each item listed links to a
separate page for that item. Loaded 40-some item pages.
Revised Updates page and fixed link from
Dav home page.
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| 2005.02.01 |
Added an obituary -appreciation page. obits are screen
shots of web pages (newspapers mainly) saved to Docs / Obits
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| 2005.01.05 |
Notice of the death of Guy Davenport
posted to GD main page with two photographs of GD, one from Our
University, Public Affairs Office, University of Kentucky, 1966, the
other by photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, used on the rear cover of
Flowers & Leaves:
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The death of Guy Davenport arrived the morning of Tuesday 4 January
2005, in Lexington, Kentucky at the University of Kentucky Lucille Parker
Markey Cancer Center. He was in his 77th year, born 23 November 1927 in
Anderson, South Carolina. He was the kindest, most thoughtful, most
considerate person I ever have known. His intelligence was his vision of
a world he shared willingly and joyously with anyone curious enough to
ask a question or bold enough to share his own view of a story, a painting, a
drawing. Nature loves to hide, the professor said over and over,
reminding us of Heraclitus. To be interested in any one thing will lead one
eventually to be interested in many things. The most beautiful image to
our eyes is often a random gathering of objects. The highest form of
criticism of a work of art is -- another work of art made in response to
former. In nearness is chaos; distance provides balance and clarity (to our
human relations). The heart is comfortable with the familiar, the known;
the intelligence with the strange and unknown. Above all, with apologies to
Confucius and Uncle Ez, each day strive to 'make it new'. The informed
writers and poets of our time in due course will write encomia about Guy
Davenport and critical essays about his work. But, the cats living in
Lexington's Bell Court today will have to find another curious professor with
whom to share their thoughts.
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