<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post112234702477133111..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112269454703529048</id><published>2005-07-29T23:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T23:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was worried that I went too far with the Armantr...</title><summary type='text'>I was worried that I went too far with the Armantrout as she seems to be everybody&#39;s friend in the inner circles of langpo -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I am giving her good company -- Auden, Milton, Ashbery, Edson, Tate, etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And positing a canon based on writing in space and time and about lived experience: Bukowski, for instance, would then be better than the above simply by virtue of having an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112269454703529048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112269454703529048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122694500000#c112269454703529048' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112268500599044205</id><published>2005-07-29T20:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T20:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron argued that her poems were totally self-refere...</title><summary type='text'>Ron argued that her poems were totally self-referential, but for sure E.D.&#39;s weren&#39;t.  That was my only point.  I&#39;m sure she is pretty important, as she has an important position.  I&#39;m just saying that according to my theory of experience -- ahem.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112268500599044205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112268500599044205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122684960000#c112268500599044205' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112266946802037074</id><published>2005-07-29T16:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T16:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby:Rae runs rings around you!Maybe you&#39;re not f...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rae runs rings around you!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe you&#39;re not fast enough to keep up.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;She thinks so fast and so dramatically that her leaps are like the flea!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;She&#39;s our Emily Dickinson!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112266946802037074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112266946802037074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122669420000#c112266946802037074' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112266734920532701</id><published>2005-07-29T16:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-29T16:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The reality of having a girlfiend 41 years my juni...</title><summary type='text'>The reality of having a girlfiend 41 years my junior means that I have to wait another 3 years before she is even born!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I find this fact more interesting than the fiction of the film, I have to admit. I already feel like an old man now, as I sit here tapping out the words in my public office, musing on the high brow literary tug between Olsen and Silliman, whose justification for their </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112266734920532701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112266734920532701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122667320000#c112266734920532701' title=''/><author><name>Scalljah</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14578109925453070447</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613744976"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112260919160133496</id><published>2005-07-28T23:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T23:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think I was just trying to be Philip Whalen - my...</title><summary type='text'>I think I was just trying to be Philip Whalen - my favourite american poet. Maybe not all that successfully.&lt;BR/&gt;Yes Kirby, that is a good point.&lt;BR/&gt;I shall now go worship the letter S that begins both the english &amp; swedish words for sleep.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112260919160133496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112260919160133496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122609180000#c112260919160133496' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112260837542934631</id><published>2005-07-28T23:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T23:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I would agree with Lars, but I wouldn&#39;t make the m...</title><summary type='text'>I would agree with Lars, but I wouldn&#39;t make the mistake of saying that language and the world are self-identical.  I don&#39;t think Lars is making that mistake, but I think a lot of other people think that language in and of itself should be our point of attention.  I would say, rather, that it is the world that is our point of attention, and we should be directed THERE by language.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112260837542934631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112260837542934631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122608340000#c112260837542934631' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112259104030418862</id><published>2005-07-28T18:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T18:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If we, for argument&#39;s sake, assume that the world ...</title><summary type='text'>If we, for argument&#39;s sake, assume that the world exists, I would argue that language can change it, because language can change the way we look at the world.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112259104030418862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112259104030418862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122591000000#c112259104030418862' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112256176545070970</id><published>2005-07-28T10:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T10:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Poetry must be based on lived human experience in ...</title><summary type='text'>Poetry must be based on lived human experience in space and time in order to be meaningful.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is why Reznikoff and Williams are meaningful, but Wallace Stevens is etiolated; this is why John Suckling is meaningful, but John Milton is not.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is why the Beat writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac and Corso are meaningful, but too much of what has happened since LANGUAGE is not</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112256176545070970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112256176545070970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122561720000#c112256176545070970' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112253010969495010</id><published>2005-07-28T01:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T01:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I really enjoyed that movie, because you could see...</title><summary type='text'>I really enjoyed that movie, because you could see the &quot;pieces being moved around&quot; and because of the way Duvall builds his character around pauses, silences, and akwardness. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Apostle - also not loved by reviewers - is very similar, I think. It&#39;s Duvall taking risks in trying to explore something he thinks is important enough to invest in. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In Open Range there is one shot </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112253010969495010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112253010969495010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122530100000#c112253010969495010' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11724467382608715989</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1045868663"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112250360857048975</id><published>2005-07-27T18:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T18:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>K definitely has a beginning, middle and end. Just...</title><summary type='text'>K definitely has a beginning, middle and end. Just say K:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;K-aaaa-y.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;O, OTOH, only has a middle and an end:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;oooo-w.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;S has beginning and middle:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;E-sssss.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;E only has a middle.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112250360857048975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112250360857048975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122503580000#c112250360857048975' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112249947266730927</id><published>2005-07-27T17:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T17:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I tried eating the single raisin. I really di...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I tried eating the single raisin. I really did.  I felt a little sick at all the extra calories, and thinking about how it rotted, etc.  And then the poop!  Such a tiny poop!  I hoped for a mental or spiritual revolution of some kind but it didn&#39;t take place.  Are you sure you weren&#39;t talking about dropping a hit of LSD?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I need something heavier, like, man, like, like! &lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112249947266730927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112249947266730927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122499440000#c112249947266730927' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112248623939193474</id><published>2005-07-27T13:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T13:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading Is Eating is a pleasant metaphor, Ron Sill...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Reading Is Eating&lt;/I&gt; is a pleasant metaphor, Ron Silliman, but can you offer a cognitivist explanation (which takes into account the very real physiological differences between digestion and the experience of reading) for the transformation-through-reading-a-single letter of which Kirby is incapable?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248623939193474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248623939193474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122486180000#c112248623939193474' title=''/><author><name>kmarzahl</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16666106031063809980</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1108505737"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112248523885059738</id><published>2005-07-27T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A better and less self-indulgent film (one could i...</title><summary type='text'>A better and less self-indulgent film (one could imagine its events occurring in the real world, say) directed by an American actor in South America is John Malcovich&#39;s &quot;The Dancer Upstairs&quot; with Javier Bardem as a cop who tracks down The Shining Path...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248523885059738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248523885059738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122485220000#c112248523885059738' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16265963954337715983</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1136741023"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112248350865099302</id><published>2005-07-27T12:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T12:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Loved your review of a film that I too enjoyed imm...</title><summary type='text'>Loved your review of a film that I too enjoyed immensely.  Duvall never disappoints and the subtle weaving of many themes/subtexts  into this &#39;hitman&#39; story was quite splendid.  The dance of life, the violence of love, the death of all dreams...I was mesmerized by it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248350865099302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248350865099302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122483480000#c112248350865099302' title=''/><author><name>bevjackson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14394278185384388199</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-600334937"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112248079290335011</id><published>2005-07-27T12:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T12:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, this is a wonderful movie.  But you write:“Th...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, this is a wonderful movie.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But you write:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“There is a reason this movie’s title conjoins words from such dissimilar schema, like Godzilla Banana. Far from concealing the film-maker’s art, Assassination Tango renders the constructedness of it all as the absolute heart of a remarkably human film.”&lt;BR/&gt;The schema are not dissimilar at all -- if you know El tango de la muerte</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248079290335011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112248079290335011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122480780000#c112248079290335011' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112247477056129861</id><published>2005-07-27T10:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T10:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,If you aren&#39;t changed by reading a single le...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you aren&#39;t changed by reading a single letter, you&#39;re dead to the world, Kirby.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s an old mindfulness exercise of eating one raisin -- just one -- feeling it go all the way down, learning to understand how it impacts your body, your digestion, the extra weight you&#39;re carrying, the nutrition it delivers, etc. You should try it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247477056129861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247477056129861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122474720000#c112247477056129861' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112247452386377419</id><published>2005-07-27T10:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T10:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think a single letter can have a beginning...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think a single letter can have a beginning, middle and an end in Aristotle&#39;s terms because a plot implies change through time.  So what a character was at the beginning cannot be what it is again at the end.  The character must have a revelation of a deeper identity -- the way that Creon realizes he is the cause of all the problems in the Antigone.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s the amazing passage </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247452386377419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247452386377419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122474480000#c112247452386377419' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112247371600505750</id><published>2005-07-27T10:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T10:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Excellent review, Ron! I&#39;ll have to search this fi...</title><summary type='text'>Excellent review, Ron! I&#39;ll have to search this film out. Thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247371600505750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112247371600505750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122473700000#c112247371600505750' title=''/><author><name>Michael Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01280355936107965244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112246013717513869</id><published>2005-07-27T06:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T06:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I love Duvall, and this sounds like a wonderful fi...</title><summary type='text'>I love Duvall, and this sounds like a wonderful film; I&#39;ll look out for it. I went to SILVER CITY a few nights ago. If you haven&#39;t been to see it, don&#39;t go. It&#39;s terrible, a dull political tract preaching (in my case anyway) to the thoroughly converted. And Danny Huston is an abominable choice as lead actor, as wooden as those badly carved 1950s actors, like Victor Mature or Ronald Reagan.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112246013717513869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112246013717513869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122460080000#c112246013717513869' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112245983011603438</id><published>2005-07-27T06:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-27T06:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw this film a while back and loved it and yes,...</title><summary type='text'>I saw this film a while back and loved it and yes, it&#39;s not your &#39;typical&#39; movie. It had been described to me as &#39;strange&#39; by the person who told me about it. By Hollywood standards, it IS strange. I rented it because I knew of Duvall&#39;s background with the Tango--his passion, and because I like his low key way of creating characters. He didn&#39;t disappoint me in the latter and the movie grew on me </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112245983011603438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112234702477133111/comments/default/112245983011603438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html?showComment=1122459780000#c112245983011603438' title=''/><author><name>Pris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-finally-got-around-to-seeing-robert.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112234702477133111' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112234702477133111' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2102071197"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 27, 2005"/></entry></feed>