<?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.post112290745637258614..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/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112322567150126554</id><published>2005-08-05T03:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-05T03:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>N.Z. writer Ian Wedde&#39;s 1986 novel Symmes Hole (Pe...</title><summary type='text'>N.Z. writer Ian Wedde&#39;s 1986 novel Symmes Hole (Penguin) goes into some detail here and there about the life and times of John Troy. The introduction even cites correspondence between Troy and Melville but these citations have to be taken with care, since said intro is written by a Dr. Keehua Roa of the University of West Hawai&#39;i ... &#39;keehua roa&#39; is &#39;long ghost&#39; in Maori and perhaps also in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112322567150126554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112322567150126554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123225620000#c112322567150126554' title=''/><author><name>Martin Edmond</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15703987223264531057</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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1595258319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112315346600389585</id><published>2005-08-04T07:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-04T07:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Melville&#39;s description of Long Ghost&#39;s training, s...</title><summary type='text'>Melville&#39;s description of Long Ghost&#39;s training, such as it was, makes it quite clear that he was not, in any modern sense, a true doctor. Tho, before Johns Hopkins began to standardize medical training in the 19th century, training was pretty ragged, often not much more than an apprenticeship system.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112315346600389585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112315346600389585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123153440000#c112315346600389585' 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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112312182283969163</id><published>2005-08-03T22:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T22:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As to who Long Ghost &quot;might have been,&quot; most Melvi...</title><summary type='text'>As to who Long Ghost &quot;might have been,&quot; most Melville scholars identify him with John Troy, a fellow ship-jumper of Melville&#39;s. The &quot;historical note&quot; to the Northwestern/Newberry edition of Omoo explains that &quot;John Troy, who became Doctor Long Ghost, had been only the steward on the *Lucy Ann*, and as such was custodian and dispenser of medical stores, so that by usage he would have been called &#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112312182283969163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112312182283969163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123121820000#c112312182283969163' title=''/><author><name>Mark Scroggins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10241775268634437417</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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-905168142"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112311928079643777</id><published>2005-08-03T21:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T21:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Financially, Curtis, financially. And in the impac...</title><summary type='text'>Financially, Curtis, financially. And in the impact it had on Melville&#39;s self-confidence.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112311928079643777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112311928079643777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123119240000#c112311928079643777' 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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112311585713107582</id><published>2005-08-03T20:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T20:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;...the disaster that was The Whale...&quot;???</title><summary type='text'>&quot;...the disaster that was The Whale...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;???</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112311585713107582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112311585713107582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123115820000#c112311585713107582' 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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112310155935541031</id><published>2005-08-03T16:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T16:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>“a pomo absence-at-the-center a good 120 years bef...</title><summary type='text'>“a pomo absence-at-the-center a good 120 years before such strategies would become fashionable”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually such strategies were everyday 120 years and more and more before that.  It is only our 19th and 20th century psychology and then the overcoming of that that leads us to think that disinterest in character, shapeshifting, no there thereness is actually post-modern.  We build a history </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112310155935541031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112310155935541031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123101540000#c112310155935541031' 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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112308113618394849</id><published>2005-08-03T10:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T10:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>These two statements of Ron&#39;s are interesting in t...</title><summary type='text'>These two statements of Ron&#39;s are interesting in terms of many of us who read Melville as interested mostly in text or reading text itself (a rather textbook reading of M. in universities nowadays - forgive the pun):&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Long Ghost, in short, is rather a Rorschach test, a pomo absence-at-the-center a good 120 years before such strategies would become fashionable.&quot; and &quot;The departures he [</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112308113618394849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112308113618394849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123081080000#c112308113618394849' title=''/><author><name>Tom</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08752314929792072735</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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1211838536"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112307390053770047</id><published>2005-08-03T08:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-03T08:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What are you doing, Ron? What are you thinking? He...</title><summary type='text'>What are you doing, Ron? What are you thinking? Here I was, determined that English letters had gone so totally retro (and abysmally lame) that any mention of writers like Melville, Pynchon and Beckett would elicit exclamations of &quot;Huh? Wha? Whozzat? I think I heard of those guys.&quot; If you keep talking like this, the next thing you know, people like Francis Ford Coppola will be filming Kerouac&#39;s &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112307390053770047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112290745637258614/comments/default/112307390053770047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html?showComment=1123073880000#c112307390053770047' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</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/2005/08/omoo-i-have-been-told-is-herman.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112290745637258614' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112290745637258614' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2005"/></entry></feed>