<?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.post113413047982830064..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/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113442548901994902</id><published>2005-12-12T17:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-12T17:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just went through my notes and Belz has only size ...</title><summary type='text'>Just went through my notes and Belz has only size 11 shoes.  He lived in a 3-story woodframe house with brownstone steps on Washington Ave in St. Louis.  To my shock he ate meat and he smoked.  He is half-German and one quarter Irish.    He has three children -- very cute -- all three are carrot tops.  His house was built in 1903 for the St. Louis World&#39;s Fair.  A very European pigeon sat on the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113442548901994902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113442548901994902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134425460000#c113442548901994902' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113437809644225377</id><published>2005-12-12T04:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-12T04:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nay...Diamond is the best action film ever shot in...</title><summary type='text'>Nay...Diamond is the best action film ever shot in poetics (in my humble opinion).  The chandelier swinging can&#39;t be beat (and one connotes a certain hesitation over the Wife Swapping hahahaha and one doesn&#39;t even dare to imagine what might be imagined one day should you and C not practice faithful monogamous and straight up &#39;you know what&#39;).  It is the Prufrock Postulate if you ask me....who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113437809644225377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113437809644225377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134378060000#c113437809644225377' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113436405535218615</id><published>2005-12-12T00:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-12T00:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Army boots; black canvas with some kind of imitati...</title><summary type='text'>Army boots; black canvas with some kind of imitation leather on the toe part, going just under halfway up to the knee. Eyeholes most of the way up and then those metal bracket things the laces go around for the last three passes.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Again, though, I only wear &#39;em &#39;cause they fit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I prefer barefoot, though--I can walk over broken glass without it cutting my feet after many years of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113436405535218615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113436405535218615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134364020000#c113436405535218615' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113433715500727720</id><published>2005-12-11T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T16:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;His Diamond At The End Of Time...a generous read....</title><summary type='text'>&quot;His Diamond At The End Of Time...a generous read...fun and rollicking all the way through to the end and God there...after Butch and Sundance and the Nazis and Carrera near the border...the famous PEN stolen....by the white man. Ah...there is a poem that didn&#39;t TRY to define any political stance at all and in the end effectively discusses just about all of them (except Islam when in fact Islam </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433715500727720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433715500727720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134337140000#c113433715500727720' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113433666945922654</id><published>2005-12-11T16:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T16:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s difficult to find anything for cloven feet ou...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s difficult to find anything for cloven feet outside of a certain shop in Italy. I swear I saw Kirby there two years ago when I shopped for my special boots -- yellow ascot, blue blazer, white trousers someone named Gina pouting in the entryway who trampled on the &quot;Portable Wodehouse&quot; with her six inch heels and then begged me not to tell you?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433666945922654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433666945922654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134336660000#c113433666945922654' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113433653255542274</id><published>2005-12-11T16:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T16:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433653255542274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113433653255542274'/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432852444158429</id><published>2005-12-11T14:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T14:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Depending on the brand of shoe, I fit into anythin...</title><summary type='text'>Depending on the brand of shoe, I fit into anything from an 11 1/2 to a 12 1/2 nicely.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432852444158429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432852444158429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134328500000#c113432852444158429' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432739954920239</id><published>2005-12-11T13:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T13:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The whole &#39;make&#39; of shoe aspect is a little light ...</title><summary type='text'>The whole &#39;make&#39; of shoe aspect is a little light on Freud and heavy on prep school for my tastes.  Methinks you hear Codrescu&#39;s &quot;I wore my Reeboks to a frazzle&quot; from &#39;Belligerence&#39; on the way to the strip mall.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432739954920239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432739954920239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134327360000#c113432739954920239' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432683361875282</id><published>2005-12-11T13:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T13:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If Charles Olson had the biggest feet around appar...</title><summary type='text'>If Charles Olson had the biggest feet around apparently the tiniest of all poet feet belonged to Raymond Roussel.  His feet were so small he had to have his shoes specially tailored.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ian, I still need specifications of Curtis&#39; and others shoes.  Shoes for men tell you everything you need to know about them, I promise.  But I can&#39;t work without precise details.  Tell me your shoe size, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432683361875282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432683361875282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134326820000#c113432683361875282' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432619696058984</id><published>2005-12-11T13:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T13:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dodging the question again.&quot;You can tell a lot fro...</title><summary type='text'>Dodging the question again.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;You can tell a lot from foot size.&quot; - K. Olson&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;You can&#39;t get anything in my size?&quot; - C. Olson</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432619696058984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432619696058984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134326160000#c113432619696058984' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432198686292072</id><published>2005-12-11T12:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T12:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jonathan:You Canadians are so insecure!  Always wo...</title><summary type='text'>Jonathan:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You Canadians are so insecure!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Always worrying about being &quot;left out&quot; of the North American pantheon.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just do your thing!  You don&#39;t need America, and America doesn&#39;t need you (no sarcasm intended).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432198686292072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432198686292072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134321960000#c113432198686292072' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113432116111398507</id><published>2005-12-11T12:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T12:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I couldn&#39;t really picture the shoes that Andy desc...</title><summary type='text'>I couldn&#39;t really picture the shoes that Andy describes.  I don&#39;t know what a combat boot is, or what brand they are, so I can&#39;t tell for sure.  Are they camouflaged?  I think Aaron had dressy wing-tips on, perhaps purplish brown leather and in good condition.  Curtis doesn&#39;t describe his actual footwear only his feet so it&#39;s hard to see -- feet are natural and can&#39;t be helped but shoes that are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432116111398507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113432116111398507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134321120000#c113432116111398507' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113431816623158619</id><published>2005-12-11T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T11:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>sound to me like a less witty &quot;Portable Altamont&quot; ...</title><summary type='text'>sound to me like a less witty &quot;Portable Altamont&quot; (Brian Joseph Davis) -- us Canadians are giving you cats a run for the poetry money.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431816623158619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431816623158619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134318120000#c113431816623158619' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan Ball</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07658778404579677051</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1350633423"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113431534509690389</id><published>2005-12-11T10:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T10:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable eleme...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity it is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circumstantial element, which will be if you like, whether severally or all at once, the age, its fashions, its morals, its emotions.  Without this second element, which might be described as the amusing, enticing, appetizing icing on the divine cake, the first element</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431534509690389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431534509690389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134315300000#c113431534509690389' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113431335922534016</id><published>2005-12-11T10:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T10:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>When I was in college I could fit into size 12C sh...</title><summary type='text'>When I was in college I could fit into size 12C shoes and trousers with 32 M waist.  Now I must have size 15E shoes and 40 L trousers.  Don&#39;t ask Ron about his waist size--I&#39;m afraid to....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s a warning to all you wunderkind.  As you age, it doesn&#39;t get any better, unless you&#39;re a ballet dancer or a health food nut.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I disagree with the bloggers here about ephemeral data.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431335922534016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113431335922534016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134313320000#c113431335922534016' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113430399373983480</id><published>2005-12-11T07:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T07:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pop references maybe doomed but the &#39;now&#39; is etern...</title><summary type='text'>Pop references maybe doomed but the &#39;now&#39; is eternal&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One funny moment in an Ashbery poem was when he referred (almost en passant) not only to a picture by -it was David I think -and a knight is rescuing a maiden from a dragon (!) -but notes the detail of a small monstor or a dwarf or something by the lower coils of the dragon at the bottom rhs of the picture - of course such references </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113430399373983480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113430399373983480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134303960000#c113430399373983480' title=''/><author><name>Richard Taylor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1142244622"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113430263145684623</id><published>2005-12-11T07:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-11T07:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>aaron and kirby etcyes the question of permanence ...</title><summary type='text'>aaron and kirby etc&lt;BR/&gt;yes the question of permanence -well nothing is - as far as I know - but I read  (in translation ) the poems of Catullus and  Martial -now they refer to people in their lives that we only know curtesy of the notes and we know almost nothing of Saphho&#39;s references - Martial  and Catullus read like NY poets or London poets -whatever - even if we know nothing of Maddonna or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113430263145684623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113430263145684623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134302580000#c113430263145684623' title=''/><author><name>Richard Taylor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1142244622"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113427478890609186</id><published>2005-12-10T23:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T23:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In other words I cannot assume that because James ...</title><summary type='text'>In other words I cannot assume that because James Corner buys terracotta pots that he is either:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gay&lt;BR/&gt;Religious&lt;BR/&gt;Politically correct&lt;BR/&gt;A hard core republican or a capitalist by nature&lt;BR/&gt;Right&lt;BR/&gt;etc etc&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All I can say is he lives in a time (like all times) filled with certain norms and he chooses to address the world as an actual place in time with certain </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113427478890609186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113427478890609186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134274740000#c113427478890609186' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113427241014961283</id><published>2005-12-10T22:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T22:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.  So poems take place at a certain time and th...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.  So poems take place at a certain time and then history gets WRITTEN and then we can come up with a posthumous philosophy that is supposedly the driving force behind the poet?  Not when you consider that the victor writes the history with the spoils of the war which was fought.  That America was catapulted into this self analysis all of a sudden (oh...three or four decades of suddenness)...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113427241014961283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113427241014961283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134272400000#c113427241014961283' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113426041970974969</id><published>2005-12-10T19:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T19:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>9-9 1/2, but my feet are short and quite wide, so ...</title><summary type='text'>9-9 1/2, but my feet are short and quite wide, so I take whatever doesn&#39;t scrunch &#39;em up; recently, cheap black &quot;combat boots&quot; with added insoles. Can look dressy enough until they start falling apart after a couple of months. Converse hi-tops stretched well to accomadate me, but they&#39;ve moved overseas for cheaper labor, and more expensive shoes on this end.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In any case, it&#39;s almost </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113426041970974969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113426041970974969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134260400000#c113426041970974969' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113425725711710044</id><published>2005-12-10T18:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T18:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Joe, I&#39;m in the Lutheran Brotherhood and have...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Joe, I&#39;m in the Lutheran Brotherhood and have been paying in since about age 3.  But I would like to meet you and will some day go to Minneapolis and we can have a cup of Joe.  I&#39;ve been there several times to visit the Walker.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aaron, I like fish, but it was the simplicity of the poem that I wondered about.  Actually Aaron has much more complicated more technical poems that show a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113425725711710044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113425725711710044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134257220000#c113425725711710044' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113424278211246355</id><published>2005-12-10T14:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T14:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby -- you come to Minneapolis and I&#39;ll show you...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby -- you come to Minneapolis and I&#39;ll show you where Berryman jumped AND the Mary Tyler Moore statue and the offices of the Lutheran Brotherhood.  You will achieve synthesis and transcendence somewhere on the Skyway near Neiman Marcus.  Do you a world of good. Also will get you into a good Lutheran mutual fund.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113424278211246355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113424278211246355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134242760000#c113424278211246355' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113423563150547149</id><published>2005-12-10T12:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T12:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I tried to comment and it got swallowed, so I&#39;ll b...</title><summary type='text'>I tried to comment and it got swallowed, so I&#39;ll be briefer this time.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aaron: I&#39;m honored you have me growing up across the river, but I only spent years 0-4 in Belleville, Illinois (hometown of Rachel Daley).  I am a St. Louis native by baseball obsession only!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron: how about reversing the field?  Padgett and Berrigan moved from Tulsa to NYC...so the NY school is a midwest </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113423563150547149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113423563150547149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134235620000#c113423563150547149' title=''/><author><name>Susan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11149093537815104761</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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-916968898"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113423395000087537</id><published>2005-12-10T11:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T11:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Kirby,Do YOU like fish? I haven&#39;t asked, but ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do YOU like fish? I haven&#39;t asked, but i assume that you do, as you are something of a Scandinaviaphile.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You are onto something with the question about whether I should feel ashamed. I don&#39;t know whether i &lt;I&gt;should&lt;/I&gt; or not, but I often do, thanks to my religious tradition and my place in the world. I am ashamed of my sexuality, my chest hair, my duplicitousness, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113423395000087537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113423395000087537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134233940000#c113423395000087537' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Belz</name><uri>http://meaningless.com</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113422938667896921</id><published>2005-12-10T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-10T10:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh but another thing about Belz&#39;s poetry as COMPAR...</title><summary type='text'>Oh but another thing about Belz&#39;s poetry as COMPARED to Ashbery&#39;s -- I think it could be said that Belz accepts this world in a different way than Ashbery does -- for Ashbery the world seems could I say -- elsewhere -- (in a Gnostic sense) whereas for Belz -- the world does seem to be quite thoroughly delightful -- I have another chapbook of his called Bangs published by Mass Deportation Press </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113422938667896921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113413047982830064/comments/default/113422938667896921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html?showComment=1134229380000#c113422938667896921' 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/2005/12/david-perry-one-might-even-start-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113413047982830064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113413047982830064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2005"/></entry></feed>