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[1] From: <jkrybicki@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.54: in memoriam (118)
[2] From: WARWICK, CLAIRE L. <c.l.h.warwick@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Remembering David Hoover (41)
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Date: 2023-05-31 05:36:33+00:00
From: <jkrybicki@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.54: in memoriam
Dear Willard,
It took me a couple of days to gather my thoughts on this unexpected loss of
stylometrist extraordinaire David Hoover. Apart from losing a great friend and
colleague and co-reveller, digital humanities have lost a very rare combination
of a truly literary mind and a rational statistician, who has probably close-
read more literature than other people have studied by distant reading. To me
and many others, the yearly meetings at our DH conferences owed much of their
attraction to the assurance of seeing David once again. This is now a void that
will be very hard to fill.
Indeed, my first meeting with David was at what was then called the ALLC/ACH
Conference in Gothenburg in 2004. I will always remember how open he was to a
newcomer like me, and how we immediately became partners in crime. After that,
the life of a stylometrist from Poland became much easier with a foothold on the
shoulders of those two stylometric giants (David and John Burrows). His emails
always contained a spirited literary quote at the bottom, and of course the one
that comes to mind in relation to David is Mark Twain’s: “Great people are those
who make others feel that they, too, can become great.” I am sure his many
students at NYU, DHSI and elsewhere would agree that this is perhaps the best
way to define David, dead or alive. If people like him can ever be truly dead.
Non omnis morietur, I think.
Those of us who were lucky to have known David, and our name is million, would
sooner or later end up in the pinnacle of hospitality, in that Moomin House-like
house in Brooklyn, perhaps around that elaborate barbecue range. And sooner or
later we would become friends with his wife Danise and the three "little"
Hoovers, whom we must now have in our thoughts.
Sincerely,
Jan Rybicki
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 54.
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Date: 2023-05-28 11:13:13+00:00
From: Jan Christoph Meister <mail@jcmeister.de>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.51: in memoriam
Willard, an epitaph beautifully put. Style, warmth, elegance and a twinkle in
the eye - with Dino and David another two of our trailblazers have joined the
chorus. And so it's for our generation now to harvest the wealth of loss and
remembrance.
Chris
jan christoph meister
"le doute est un état mental désagreable, mais la certitude est ridicule"
(voltaire)
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Am 28.05.2023 06:46 schrieb Humanist
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 51.
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Date: 2023-05-27 11:39:23+00:00
From: Marinella Testori <testorimarinella@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.48: in memoriam
Dear Willard,
Many condolences and kind thoughts on the sad occasion of the loss of Professor
David Hoover.
*At the end of our lives we will be judged by love. * St John of the Cross
Marinella
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Marinella Testori Ph.D.
Corpus Linguistics for Latin
Il giorno sab 27 mag 2023 alle ore 08:00 Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> ha
scritto:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 48.
> Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
> Hosted by DH-Cologne
> www.dhhumanist.org
> Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
>
>
>
> Date: 2023-05-27 05:47:10+00:00
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
> Subject: in memoriam
>
> David Hoover, "sudden, natural causes". For the style and warmth and
> intelligence that escape all measure, we will miss you.
>
> W
> --
> Willard McCarty,
> Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary
> Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk
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Date: 2023-05-31 14:02:21+00:00
From: WARWICK, CLAIRE L. <c.l.h.warwick@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Remembering David Hoover
Dear colleagues,
In mourning David Hoover, I find myself thinking of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 85 ‘My
tongued Muse’ : “I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words…”. So
following Jan Rybicki’s eloquent memorial of our dear friend and colleague, this
is my attempt, ‘to the most of praise’ (to) ‘add something more’,
Like Jan, it has taken me a few days to collect my thoughts. Just before I heard
the news, last week, I’d been forward to seeing David again at the DH2023
conference, after a Covid-prolonged absence. I am immeasurably sad that this
absence will now be indefinitely prolonged.
But what consoles me is that whenever I think of David, I imagine him smiling or
laughing. I remember the many times that we’d get together for a meal or a drink
at DH conferences or explore the city in which we were staying. Most of all I
remember evening conversations, often with Ray Siemens and Jan Rybicki over a
bottle of whisky- rambling discussions into which we managed the perennial
DHers’ feat of cramming months and years of friendship into a few hours’
meeting. David’s unerring instinct for the ideal balance between academic
rigour, dry wit and an appreciation for the ridiculous made him a wonderful
companion. At future DH gatherings there will always be a silence where his
laughter should have been.
David will be a huge loss to the DH community, not only as the great and
pioneering scholar he undoubtedly was, but also as a friend and mentor to so
many of us. He was an inspiration- always willing to encourage and advise, but
never dogmatic in his views. And always there was that smile…
Farewell David- sit tibi terra levis.
Claire
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Claire Warwick MA, MPhil, PhD
Professor of Digital Humanities
Co-Director Durham Institute of Data Science
Department of English Studies
Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk/staff/c-l-h-warwick/
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