January 8, 2005
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“The locomotive bringing a trainload of philosophers to Bologna hissed
and ground to a standstill in the long Appenine dusk to have its
headlamps lit and to be dressed in the standards of the city and the
university.”Related material:The train
wreck at 12:50 pm local time (6:50 AM EST) Friday, Jan. 7, 2005,
25 miles north of Bologna.A northbound freight train collided with a passenger train traveling
south from Verona to Bologna.From an essay on Davenport I found Friday morning, well
before I
learned on Friday afternoon (Eastern Standard Time) of the train wreck:“A disciple of Ezra Pound, he adapts to the short
story the ideogrammatic method of The Cantos, where a grammar of
images, emblems, and symbols replaces that of logical sequence. This
grammar allows for the grafting of particulars into a congeries of
implied relation without subordination. In contrast to postmodernists,
Davenport does not omit causal connection and linear narrative
continuity for the sake of an aleatory play of signification but in
order to intimate by combinational logic kinships and correspondences
among eras, ideas and forces.”– “When Novelists Become Cubists:
The Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport,”
by Andre FurlaniSee also
Friday’s Log24 entries and
Davenport’s
Express.
