#rives

[unteriors]

Will Dickerson Road, Rives, Tennessee.

[monaco1988]

Sorry can you specify about the thank you letter Ducarouge wrote to Senna?

sure can! it's from this text by johnny rives, i'm just gonna quickly translate the extract because i kind of want it on my blog:

I think [Senna] trusted me quite a lot. He proved it to me in a rather moving manner at the end of 1987, after he had signed with McLaren. It was in the evening, after the last practice session of the Australian Grand Prix, the last race of the season. I was wandering through the paddock when he saw me and made a sign for me to join him. He was sitting near the Lotus garage where the mechanics were busy preparing the next day's race. "I need to show you something," he told me. I sat next to him and he produced a letter from his pocket. "There, read it, but don't talk about it in your newspaper...". This letter had been written to him by Gérard Ducarouge who, as Lotus's technical director, had just experienced three unforgettable seasons with Senna. In it, Gérard talked about the pride and gratitude he deeply felt towards him. It was a beautiful letter, imbued with deep, genuine emotion, which I could summarize in this way: "I feel very proud of having worked alongside you these three seasons. You are the most fascinating, motivating and brilliant driver I have ever worked with. I will never forget the professionnal moments we have shared, they are the most beautiful of my whole career." Sadly, I can't perfectly retell from memory alone the emotions that Gérard Ducarouge had managed to express in this superb missive. Emotions that Senna had perceived to the fullest as I discovered very quickly since, when I handed him back the letter after having read it, I realized that he was in tears. It was of course a very intense moment between him and me, and which sealed our bond.

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

Today’s fine press book is another from the collection of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, entitled Manhattan. The book consists of poems by Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) with wood engravings by Margaret Sunday. Each poem references varying observations and places in Manhattan, accompanied by woodcuts created by Sunday. At first glance, these engravings seem simply to be abstracted lines, but it becomes obvious that they are illustrations of the surroundings in Clampitt's poems. Subway maps, construction equipment, and housing can all be seen in Sunday’s woodcuts.

Manhattan was printed by Kim Merker and Don Howell for the University of Iowa Center for the Book in an edition of 130 copies on Rives Heavy mouldmade paper. The type is handset 18pt Monotype Van Dijck. Poems were previously published in a variety of periodicals including Antaeus, Chelsea, and the Christian Scientist Monitor.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

[toutplacid]

Ragondin dans l’Huisne, vers la Drujonnière, vue sur la rive côté Corbon depuis la rive côté Courcerault – mine de carbone, carnet nª 134, 23 mai 2022.

[tiptoesims]

Many Men Challenge by MogSimmer Day 13: The Detective #manymen

Rives, one of my old VTM:B role play characters from years ago. A witch (reason for his pale eyes) detective in New Orleans, his best informant is a Nosferatu vampire with a crush on him.

[protectoursharks]

Pygocentrus nattereri or the Red-Bellied Piranha 

The Red-Bellied Piranha eats a variety of things; small fish, aquatic invertebrates, flesh of deceased animals, and occasionally plants and nuts. Interestingly enough, most of their diet is small bites from larger fish’s tails. 

[amusteredmind]

[bringovaya]