<?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.post114380943051601531..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/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/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>95</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114502788918864479</id><published>2006-04-14T11:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T11:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>By the way it&#39;s Easter this week.  You probably re...</title><summary type='text'>By the way it&#39;s Easter this week.  You probably remember that.  Brightly colored eggs over perfect lawns, children fanning out with baskets, and the Easter Bunny in every store made out of chocolate in various sizes!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And the Jews are having their Passover Dinners called I think Sedar or Seder.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What are you Muslims going to do this weekend, Lilac?  Do you celebrate it in some way?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114502788918864479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114502788918864479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1145027880000#c114502788918864479' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114502761625754754</id><published>2006-04-14T11:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T11:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilac, I hadn&#39;t heard of this fellow Ken Wilbur --...</title><summary type='text'>Lilac, I hadn&#39;t heard of this fellow Ken Wilbur -- actually you misspelled it, it&#39;s Ken Wilber.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I looked him up and came across this gem from the book, The Essential Ken Wilber, p. 185:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Too many representatives of too many movements even very good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies -- seem to lack humor altogether.  In other words they </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114502761625754754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114502761625754754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1145027580000#c114502761625754754' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114499456981566944</id><published>2006-04-14T02:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T02:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.  Yep Kirby.  I&#39;ve learned a GREAT DEAL about ...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.  Yep Kirby.  I&#39;ve learned a GREAT DEAL about the hideous fallacy of Marxism here.  But that&#39;s not any more than anyone can learn from a brief bio of Karl Marx in Paul Johnson&#39;s Intellectuals.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Marx was a decrepit and lousy thinker who never bothered walking into a real factory and never bothered to pay his one servant whom he, by the way, impregnated and denied accountability for the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114499456981566944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114499456981566944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144994520000#c114499456981566944' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114496478861113342</id><published>2006-04-13T17:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-13T17:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, it&#39;s true Curtis everything is temporary her...</title><summary type='text'>Well, it&#39;s true Curtis everything is temporary here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Our cities, everything.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But in the realm of poetry I think we ought to figure that nobody here is too awful.  After all, it&#39;s not the kind of field that draws too many opportunists.  It draws people who are interested in beauty, and in some kind of transcendent politics.  For some reason we keep getting into catfights where we</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114496478861113342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114496478861113342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144964760000#c114496478861113342' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114485814028508782</id><published>2006-04-12T12:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T12:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I asked Ron about what happened to all those posts...</title><summary type='text'>I asked Ron about what happened to all those posts after his website crashed.  He said they were retrievable, but that it would take days of programming to pull them back, so he just let them drift away.  I thought:  I&#39;ve probably posted 100,000 words here, and most of it is lost in interspace.  Oh, well.  Like Kirby says, it&#39;s all temporary here.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114485814028508782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114485814028508782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144858140000#c114485814028508782' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114485268619176424</id><published>2006-04-12T10:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T10:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with Lilac that politics seems to be centr...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with Lilac that politics seems to be central here so to deny it is pretty weird.  Even when poetry is actually discussed what&#39;s behind that is not aesthetics but politics.  Always already.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But Lilac most of the posters on the comments box are imposters.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The only time you can be sure it&#39;s Ron posting is in the actual original posts outside of the comments box.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114485268619176424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114485268619176424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144852680000#c114485268619176424' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114483136049504931</id><published>2006-04-12T04:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T04:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Lilac, seriously, if I ever read more than 1/28th...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Lilac, seriously, if I ever read more than 1/28th of yr posts, I wld know exactly what an idiot you are. Since I don&#39;t, I&#39;ll just approximate.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well if that really is Ronbaby then...you know what?  I must ask, how then did you arrive at such an outrageous conclusion regarding my supposed &quot;bigotry&quot;?  Mysterious actually particularly when you have a somewhat closer affiliation with the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114483136049504931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114483136049504931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144831320000#c114483136049504931' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114481288896844844</id><published>2006-04-11T23:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T23:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And remember Ron baby...I used to deal with neuros...</title><summary type='text'>And remember Ron baby...I used to deal with neurosurgeons...not merely &quot;POETS&quot;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poets are, so to speak, a piece of boneless bitter cake to me.  Relatively useless in the scheme of things anymore because of your type of word substitution games.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I guess you could say...I will never be a &quot;language school groupie&quot; like your dear intelligent post erasing friend, Miss Tabios...or is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481288896844844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481288896844844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144812840000#c114481288896844844' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114481145043141406</id><published>2006-04-11T23:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T23:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s inappropriate here.&quot; Thanks Curtis.  Next ti...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s inappropriate here.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks Curtis.  Next time you use it to ventilate...remind yourself.&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps you have forgotten that Ron Silliman&#39;s whole reason for existence, the whole notion of Language School is political?  I guess you have or rather:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe Ron should ban political confrontation altogether and that way he won&#39;t have to deal with the contradictions HE creates </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481145043141406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481145043141406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144811400000#c114481145043141406' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114481008300398206</id><published>2006-04-11T22:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T22:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Furthermore, if you had one ounce of logic in you,...</title><summary type='text'>Furthermore, if you had one ounce of logic in you, you would have realized when you allowed a poet to be burned at the stake that the initial assumption of his &quot;freaky&quot; assertion about that warning is backed up because in order to BLAME Bush for being somehow &#39;complicit&#39; in the WTC you would also have to accept that the Israeli intelligence services had provided NUMEROUS warnings, specific ones, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481008300398206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114481008300398206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144810080000#c114481008300398206' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114480923631482535</id><published>2006-04-11T22:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T22:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron it is clear you have never read anything I&#39;ve ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron it is clear you have never read anything I&#39;ve ever written.  Had you done that in the first place you wouldn&#39;t have betrayed your seriously flawed character.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480923631482535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480923631482535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144809180000#c114480923631482535' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114480867427596345</id><published>2006-04-11T22:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T22:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>See, that&#39;s what I&#39;m talking about. Oh, gee, Kirb,...</title><summary type='text'>See, that&#39;s what I&#39;m talking about. Oh, gee, Kirb, is The Differend &quot;worth dipping into&quot;? Oh, huh. I guess I&#39;ll have to trudge on down to the bookstore, then, huh?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;UNLESS I&#39;VE ALREADY FUCKING READ IT, ASSHOLE.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lilac, seriously, if I ever read more than 1/28th of yr posts, I wld know exactly what an idiot you are. Since I don&#39;t, I&#39;ll just approximate.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirb, when you say </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480867427596345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480867427596345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144808640000#c114480867427596345' title=''/><author><name>Jenny Vroon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17499407317366551697</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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-835167991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114480149254970427</id><published>2006-04-11T20:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T20:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>lilac:You&#39;ve descended into using Ron&#39;s squawkbox ...</title><summary type='text'>lilac:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;ve descended into using Ron&#39;s squawkbox as a soapbox for venting political spleen. It&#39;s inappropriate here. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron&#39;s blog is a literature site, not a political/polemical one.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;ve made a choice which involves a kind of self-abnegation and -denial--to turn yourself into a different kind of woman in an alien culture.  Historically, some of the most strident </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480149254970427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114480149254970427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144801440000#c114480149254970427' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114478520873572409</id><published>2006-04-11T15:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T15:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilac, the last thing that W. wants or needs is a ...</title><summary type='text'>Lilac, the last thing that W. wants or needs is a horrible war amongst Muslims.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He wants a cheerful Democracy, or series of them, throughout the region.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are other people there besides the Muslims.  Lots of Christians in Lebanon.  It used to be half of the country I recall.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The nuclear option has wiped out all sorts of Achilles type exploits and all the throwbacks </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114478520873572409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114478520873572409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144785180000#c114478520873572409' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114473515896249783</id><published>2006-04-11T01:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T01:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Holocaust literature ended for me with Cynthia Ozi...</title><summary type='text'>Holocaust literature ended for me with Cynthia Ozick (sp?) short story called THE SHAWL.  Never was a more heart wrenching account of infanticide written.  Never and there will never be anything in my book that will equal it.  So much so that it was IN MY MIND as I wrote The Tufla Syndrome which hopefully will be reproduced in Hayden&#39;s Ferry...my alma mater...hopefully.  That is...if word doesn&#39;t</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114473515896249783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114473515896249783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144735140000#c114473515896249783' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114473441396690786</id><published>2006-04-11T01:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T01:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Let us harken back to the famous days of Amiri Bar...</title><summary type='text'>Let us harken back to the famous days of Amiri Baraka, shall we?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now...it didn&#39;t interest me much then...in fact I didn&#39;t read it and perhaps was on vacation in the United States for Ron Silliman&#39;s famous &quot;labeling&quot; party (joined by several others) of Amiri as an &quot;anti semite&quot; as well as a notorious &quot;stalker&quot;.  I only wish I had known that Silliman was like this, a person who has no </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114473441396690786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114473441396690786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144734360000#c114473441396690786' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114472214315010570</id><published>2006-04-10T22:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T22:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lets just say Kirby I&#39;ve lost my sense of humor fo...</title><summary type='text'>Lets just say Kirby I&#39;ve lost my sense of humor for this place.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve been told NOT to be sarcastic by horribly sarcastic and vindictive souls. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve been told I&#39;m a bigot by BIGOTS.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And lets just say that the number of Jewish writers here far outnumber the muslim...the muslims lurk around in the dark and never make a peep because lets face it, the situation with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114472214315010570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114472214315010570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144722120000#c114472214315010570' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114468295360421896</id><published>2006-04-10T11:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T11:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, at any rate Cat Stevens was once kind of int...</title><summary type='text'>Well, at any rate Cat Stevens was once kind of interesting.  But he isn&#39;t very interesting any longer, at least not to me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I reserve my attention for the most part for humorists.  I don&#39;t see much of that in the Muslim tradition.  Of course it once existed in the Sufi tradition with this Nasruddin fellow.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One of the things that bored me about the Pamuk book Snow was the lack of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114468295360421896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114468295360421896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144682940000#c114468295360421896' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114468123918598185</id><published>2006-04-10T11:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T11:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilac are there any other western women that you k...</title><summary type='text'>Lilac are there any other western women that you know of there who&#39;ve gone over to &quot;live as Muslims&quot; in your part of the world?  I think a few of you would help to counterbalance the viewpoints here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m really busy trying to read up on other things. I did read a book called Snow by a Turkist novelist who admitted that Armenians were genocided but he was let off on a technicality.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114468123918598185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114468123918598185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144681200000#c114468123918598185' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114464603312232805</id><published>2006-04-10T01:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T01:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>lilac:The greatest tragedy for the Middle East was...</title><summary type='text'>lilac:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The greatest tragedy for the Middle East was the technology of petroleum which began in the 19th Century and blossomed in the 20th.  Had this resource--which happens to exist in such great abundance in &quot;your&quot; part of the world--not been the central condition of the Modern and Post-Modern age, your, and our, histories would have been much different.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s a line of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114464603312232805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114464603312232805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144645980000#c114464603312232805' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114464062605576508</id><published>2006-04-09T23:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T23:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;We are all parasites here. At least we should try...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;We are all parasites here. At least we should try to establish matey relations with the host.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That is a horrible thing to feel about yourself Kirby.  By all means though...I do not consider myself as a &#39;parasite&#39;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am a person who demands justice and I also encourage the telling of truth whether it be about my own type (muslims) or anyone else including Jews, Zionists, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114464062605576508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114464062605576508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144640580000#c114464062605576508' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114463524749028170</id><published>2006-04-09T22:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T22:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Remember in the old days Kirb when the Pen was mig...</title><summary type='text'>Remember in the old days Kirb when the Pen was mightier than the Sword?  Yea...what a nostalgic thing.  Heh...that &quot;MARK&quot; is for you Kirby.  It&#39;s an old book in your book.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;BEIRUT ASSASSIN LEAVES MARK &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The cocks were storm-crowing that morning &lt;BR/&gt;after a real long spell of total &lt;BR/&gt;environmental darkness. Two broughams sped by. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(In the land of the prophets &lt;BR/&gt;the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463524749028170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463524749028170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144635240000#c114463524749028170' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114463404167613316</id><published>2006-04-09T21:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T21:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Besides watching the fascinating National Geo spec...</title><summary type='text'>Besides watching the fascinating National Geo special on these crazy Judas stories….hahaha that’s in that crazy poem Seven if you care to look it up…besides that lets have a little history lesson OUTSIDE the box, whaddya say?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Plan number one:  Destroy the Ottoman Empire and replace it with Ataturk latin and that sort of thing.  Nice trains running on time and women who cannot attend </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463404167613316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463404167613316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144634040000#c114463404167613316' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114463359769358164</id><published>2006-04-09T21:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T21:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, you don&#39;t understand much it seems.  Yet yo...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, you don&#39;t understand much it seems.  Yet you digress on it as much as the next numbnuts..that is what I love about you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Since ole Ron is such a great guy..then why hasn&#39;t he corrected his mistake?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You Kirby, are so naive.  I hope you stay that way...you are better off in la la land.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463359769358164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114463359769358164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144633560000#c114463359769358164' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114462744154146234</id><published>2006-04-09T20:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T20:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilac, Ron&#39;s a good guy. Calm down.  He really did...</title><summary type='text'>Lilac, Ron&#39;s a good guy. Calm down.  He really didn&#39;t mean anything with his remarks about your life in Lebanon.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nothing at all.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We are all parasites here.  At least we should try to establish matey relations with the host.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The central thing here is discussion of post-avant poetry and the politics surrounding it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I liked your idea that everybody over here </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114462744154146234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114380943051601531/comments/default/114462744154146234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html?showComment=1144627440000#c114462744154146234' 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/2006/03/there-is-moment-in-iliad-when-useless.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114380943051601531' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114380943051601531' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 09, 2006"/></entry></feed>