<?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.post113799398819514279..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/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/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>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113838273084622853</id><published>2006-01-27T12:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T12:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This encounter may prove to be more deadly than my...</title><summary type='text'>This encounter may prove to be more deadly than my duel with Ron...recored here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Double&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How did I become double? School of Quietude poet and Post Avant Boho?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Reading Dostoyevsky while standing in line for the bus in front of the Coatesville Post Office that would take me to the Army at the same time my double was gadding about Berkeley (possibly)? No. But and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113838273084622853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113838273084622853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138382700000#c113838273084622853' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113834126593949013</id><published>2006-01-27T00:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T00:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Boys, if you&#39;re going to fight, can I hold your wa...</title><summary type='text'>Boys, if you&#39;re going to fight, can I hold your wallets?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;&#39;O Love,&lt;BR/&gt;You know what pains succeed: be vigilant, strive&lt;BR/&gt;To recognize the damned among your friends.&#39;&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Or your friends among the damned? Not sure I&#39;d trust GH with a pannikin full of powder. Or myself, for that matter.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ricochet sounds. Do, do let us know how it all comes out.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113834126593949013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113834126593949013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138341240000#c113834126593949013' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113832622750508253</id><published>2006-01-26T20:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-26T20:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>http://lonsilliman.blogspot.com/joegreen66@yahoo.c...</title><summary type='text'>http://lonsilliman.blogspot.com/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;joegreen66@yahoo.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My second is Geoffrey Hill.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113832622750508253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113832622750508253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138326180000#c113832622750508253' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113831545162762386</id><published>2006-01-26T17:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-26T17:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>faville@batnet.com--Mr. Nice Guy</title><summary type='text'>faville@batnet.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--Mr. Nice Guy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113831545162762386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113831545162762386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138315440000#c113831545162762386' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113824476122398605</id><published>2006-01-25T22:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T22:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, there you go.  Following a long standing blog...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, there you go.  Following a long standing blog tradition you just made it up to shrill about what you reprehend.  I don&#39;t think I could be clearer about what I think.  You just don&#39;t want to listen.  The point -- you had nothing to say about what this woman wrote and everything to say about what you imagine she, at some time, might have written.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You seem to think that I should gab </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113824476122398605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113824476122398605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138244760000#c113824476122398605' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113822829211063589</id><published>2006-01-25T17:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T17:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mean-O Bean-O:Let&#39;s keep it simple.First, I have n...</title><summary type='text'>Mean-O Bean-O:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let&#39;s keep it simple.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First, I have not read the Boxing book, and the only text I have to go on is Ms. Iglesias&#39;s quote in Ron&#39;s blog.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It is a statement taken--perhaps out of its proper context--I assume, from the introduction to that book.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here is the quotation, in full:  &quot;Language poetry works to redefine poetry as a scriptural practice, as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113822829211063589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113822829211063589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138228260000#c113822829211063589' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113820934171373788</id><published>2006-01-25T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Really,How do you expect a civil discourse when yo...</title><summary type='text'>Really,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How do you expect a civil discourse when you opine&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“The trouble with indulging people this stupid is in legitimating their program with serious criticism, when what it cries out for is neglect.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And then asseverate boldly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“Anyone who thinks Sylvia Plath&#39;s work is more important as feminist witness than as literature, doesn&#39;t get it.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When, by </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113820934171373788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113820934171373788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138209300000#c113820934171373788' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113820889791977491</id><published>2006-01-25T12:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T12:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Marry Sweet Wag etc.So far we have not even begun ...</title><summary type='text'>Marry Sweet Wag etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So far we have not even begun to chat about Ms. Iglesias&#39;s assertions.  We are chatting about your trivialization of discourse -- the fact that you make sweeping statements that just reflect the Usual.  The point you can&#39;t understand is that your  presumptions don&#39;t lead you to say anything intentionally sensible about these issues until you are forced to do so.  You</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113820889791977491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113820889791977491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138208880000#c113820889791977491' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113816396517907615</id><published>2006-01-24T23:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T23:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mean Joe:Your insecurities aside--which are many a...</title><summary type='text'>Mean Joe:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your insecurities aside--which are many and bristling with defensiveness and prolixity--you finally do begin to make some primitive sense:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;lecturing me on my stance on multiculturism when I said nothing about the good old multicultural&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--no, I wasn&#39;t lecturing you, I was responding to the gist of Ms. Iglesias&#39;s comments as quoted in Ron&#39;s essay.  My point-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113816396517907615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113816396517907615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138163940000#c113816396517907615' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113815246821548123</id><published>2006-01-24T20:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T20:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Why not -- still a there there -- or imagined.Ah, ...</title><summary type='text'>Why not -- still a there there -- or imagined.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ah, why not a Lear with Ron as Lear, that witty Jim as Edmund and Curtis as Cordelia?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113815246821548123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113815246821548123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138152420000#c113815246821548123' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113815061544986767</id><published>2006-01-24T19:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T19:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kenner remarks somewhere that Godot can be read as...</title><summary type='text'>Kenner remarks somewhere that Godot can be read as a kind of echo of Beckett&#39;s Resistance experience. As a sort of aside, I suppose.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And why not a history play &quot;evanescent as a shooting star&quot;? Or whimsical as a meteor, or pithy and unsentimental as any falling rock? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Or as shadowy as, say, a thought-opera based on the death of Walter Benjamin? Add two lines to Bernstein&#39;s salute</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113815061544986767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113815061544986767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138150560000#c113815061544986767' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113814904574159703</id><published>2006-01-24T19:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T19:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nah, presumption is the mot juste.I&#39;ve provided th...</title><summary type='text'>Nah, presumption is the mot juste.&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve provided the examples -- lecturing me on my stance on multiculturism when I said nothing about the good old multicultural just the most dully egregious instance. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Youe editorial &quot;we&quot; is just the Royal We.  You presume to speak for --- those in the high aesthetic line?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You need to brush up on your Shakespeare.  When you wonder just how </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113814904574159703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113814904574159703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138149000000#c113814904574159703' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113813856824997667</id><published>2006-01-24T16:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T16:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mean Joe:Sarcasm is still not clarity.  You&#39;re arg...</title><summary type='text'>Mean Joe:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sarcasm is still not clarity.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re arguing to be arguing, which is okay if we have 40 minutes to kill on the subway, but not when we have the leisure to be careful.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All I know of your &quot;presumptions&quot; (a poor word choice, but we&#39;ll use it for your convenience) is what you SAY, buddy, not what I&#39;m supposed to &quot;imagine&quot; you think.  My criticisms of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113813856824997667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113813856824997667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138138560000#c113813856824997667' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113812309166479150</id><published>2006-01-24T12:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T12:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Good poetry is STILL NOT about the sex of the wri...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Good poetry is STILL NOT about the sex of the writer, the persecution of the writer, or the social conditions of the writer.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just to return to origins.  Yes, this is full of presumptions and to interpret it generously we have to imagine that you intended certain nuances and be kind.  Exactly the sort of kindness you don&#39;t extend to her.  Yes, I will presume that you are not simple </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113812309166479150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113812309166479150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138123080000#c113812309166479150' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113812223300868757</id><published>2006-01-24T12:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T12:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So, just to once again be clear I am pointing out ...</title><summary type='text'>So, just to once again be clear I am pointing out the inadequacy of your response based on nothing that is IN the words and based merely on your presumptions.  Another instance:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Keep your multicultural politically correct diversity in its onyx locket. It&#39;s a disreputable form of literary criticism.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Directed at me when you know nothing about my views anent all that.  Just more </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113812223300868757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113812223300868757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138122180000#c113812223300868757' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113811564971350489</id><published>2006-01-24T10:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T10:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mean Joe:&quot;And where did she claim it was?&quot;She didn...</title><summary type='text'>Mean Joe:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;And where did she claim it was?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;She didn&#39;t.  YOU did, by wise-cracking &quot;So much for Russian poetry&quot;--implying that since 20th Century Russian poetry is manifestly the evidence of victimization and persecution in its particulars, any attempt to exclude this victimization and persecution from the necessary preconditions of literary qualification is bogus (&quot;empty&quot;, or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113811564971350489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113811564971350489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138115640000#c113811564971350489' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113809980405463090</id><published>2006-01-24T05:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T05:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is there anything &quot;good&quot; about human writing at th...</title><summary type='text'>Is there anything &quot;good&quot; about human writing at this point? Its all nearly&lt;BR/&gt;the same thing, a bizarre mechanistic inscription which compresses the desiring assemblages of &quot;drawing&quot; into a broadened schemata including productive ideation.&lt;BR/&gt;I find it lunacy to call it good or bad.&lt;BR/&gt;What is insane is that people die over it. It is in no manner &quot;good.&quot; Mysterious, yes. Interesting in a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113809980405463090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113809980405463090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138099800000#c113809980405463090' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113808036680678171</id><published>2006-01-24T00:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T00:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You know: LANGUAGE poetry gets bashed because they...</title><summary type='text'>You know: LANGUAGE poetry gets bashed because they spend so much time bashing others (&quot;SOQ&quot; hee hee, &quot;post-avant&quot; hee hee). I&#39;ve run out of sympathy for the geezers and their apologists. Guess you Reap what you fucking sow.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113808036680678171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113808036680678171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138080360000#c113808036680678171' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113808029058715153</id><published>2006-01-24T00:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-24T00:24:00.000-05:00</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/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113808029058715153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113808029058715153'/><author><name>*</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05143197805049516107</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1920882101"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113807010201182626</id><published>2006-01-23T21:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T21:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Mean Joe:My point--over and over and over again--...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Mean Joe:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My point--over and over and over again--is that being a woman or being a Russian or having lived in a prison camp or having had suicidal ideation, are not, in and of themselves, &quot;proofs&quot; of a good result.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And where did she claim it was?  The emptiness is exactly there.  You respond to your presumptions and, just as you assume that she speaks nonsense by &quot;assign(ing) </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113807010201182626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113807010201182626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138070100000#c113807010201182626' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806715070476812</id><published>2006-01-23T20:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T20:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If there were an early warning system, Lena would ...</title><summary type='text'>If there were an early warning system, Lena would have known about it.  She knows what&#39;s going on (I remember the Kaminsky Incident, even if you&#39;ve forgotten).  The frogs have died in the cornices of the crevasse. And this is not anything like Arty Rambunctious on a binge, this is prose, science &amp; turpitude.  Evil wings travel the altitudes of Z; I have stolen the catcher&#39;s mitt, and there is no </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806715070476812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806715070476812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138067100000#c113806715070476812' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806440453532958</id><published>2006-01-23T20:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T20:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy:I&#39;m not arguing against the possibility of al...</title><summary type='text'>Andy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not arguing against the possibility of all kinds of writing--feminism is just fine, I usually agree with the most extreme kinds of criticism--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in fact, I was reading Faludi today, and agreeing with nearly every word--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I just wish people wouldn&#39;t ACT on the principle of correction of reality to suit morally recondite ends (which are in turn based on opinions </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806440453532958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806440453532958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138064400000#c113806440453532958' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806343520711350</id><published>2006-01-23T19:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T19:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Language Poetry&quot; is an artifical construct.  It h...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Language Poetry&quot; is an artifical construct.  It has absolutely no validity at the minute level of particulars.  In its grossest generalizations, one comes down to geography (propinquity), friendship (familiarity), and historical trends (the same reading lists).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, there isn&#39;t &quot;Language Poetry&quot; on one side, and &quot;School of Quietude&quot; on the other.  This is an equally fallacious </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806343520711350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806343520711350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138063380000#c113806343520711350' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806261916727799</id><published>2006-01-23T19:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T19:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Whew.It always seems pretty obvious that langpo-ba...</title><summary type='text'>Whew.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It always seems pretty obvious that langpo-bashing of this kind comes from second-or-third-hand inexperience. And then it&#39;s usually obvious that the first-hand experience isn&#39;t of the poetry of the poets, but of a few statements made by sympathetic writers (often the poets themselves) in works of criticism (I&#39;m thinking of Perloff, Bernstein, Perelman, Andrews, mostly). These </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806261916727799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806261916727799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138062600000#c113806261916727799' 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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806223514037227</id><published>2006-01-23T19:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T19:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ron,i agree that the characterization of langpo ig...</title><summary type='text'>ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i agree that the characterization of langpo iglesias gives is off-base, but not completely. it&#39;s like the elements of an accurate account are there but just not put together in the right way and with the right qualifications.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hers is far from the only such account tho; i find that the innaccurate ones far outnumber the accurate ones. and i wonder why, some 20 or even 30 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806223514037227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113799398819514279/comments/default/113806223514037227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html?showComment=1138062180000#c113806223514037227' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</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/2006/01/angry-book-on-history-st.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113799398819514279' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113799398819514279' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry></feed>