<?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.post114545064750487101..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/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/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>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114584363201645611</id><published>2006-04-23T21:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-23T21:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey! This is one of your betters -</title><summary type='text'>Hey! This is one of your betters -</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114584363201645611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114584363201645611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145843580000#c114584363201645611' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068391526111662520</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1320777018"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114573506171360608</id><published>2006-04-22T15:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T15:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great radio!  Now available at:     http://thejeun...</title><summary type='text'>Great radio!&lt;BR/&gt;  Now available at:&lt;BR/&gt;   &lt;BR/&gt;  http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/&lt;BR/&gt;   &lt;BR/&gt;   &lt;BR/&gt;                                                      Kent Johnson Comes Back!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;  America&#39;s most beloved poet returns with a new poem -- Thirty Three &lt;BR/&gt;Rules of Poetry for Poets Twenty Three and Under -- and with many new &lt;BR/&gt;epigrams.&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt; Epigrams for Josh Corey, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114573506171360608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114573506171360608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145735040000#c114573506171360608' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114571412124882224</id><published>2006-04-22T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-22T09:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why do I get the feeling that some of the posters ...</title><summary type='text'>Why do I get the feeling that some of the posters have read a different blog than the one this belongs to?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is &quot;mamony&quot; nuts?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114571412124882224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114571412124882224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145714100000#c114571412124882224' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114565575766599169</id><published>2006-04-21T17:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T17:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>did i miss somethingoragamii guess they were (are)...</title><summary type='text'>did i miss something&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;oragami&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i guess they were (are) cranes&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as i typed i imagined one of those&lt;BR/&gt;sitting on the nose of the enola gay&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hope i didn&#39;t offend</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565575766599169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565575766599169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145655720000#c114565575766599169' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114565241425825154</id><published>2006-04-21T16:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T16:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The only aura in this post is the aura of manure. ...</title><summary type='text'>The only aura in this post is the aura of manure.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You may want to do some research on Tesla, Edison and the French physicists known in educated circles as the Curies.  Edison is also known for having bilked Tesla of a fortune after Tesla invented what you might recognize inside your very own &quot;huts&quot; as alternating current.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565241425825154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565241425825154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145652360000#c114565241425825154' title=''/><author><name>mamony</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02311509344011034246</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-100272960"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114565120327995947</id><published>2006-04-21T16:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T16:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well this is categorically wrong.  The New York Ti...</title><summary type='text'>Well this is categorically wrong.  The New York Times suppressed the discovery of radiation sickness using an implanted journalist by the name of Laurence.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Radiation sickness was a known factor and was described before 1930.  Your statement is not only false, it is insensitive to Japanese individuals who died from this &quot;inexplicable&quot; New York Times illness.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I only wonder if it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565120327995947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114565120327995947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145651160000#c114565120327995947' title=''/><author><name>mamony</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02311509344011034246</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-100272960"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114563633238704290</id><published>2006-04-21T12:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T12:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>LBehrent would seem to be right that in Benjamin&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>LBehrent would seem to be right that in Benjamin&#39;s essay aura is limited to art work that has not been mass produced.  Thus the painting has an aura of originality that is lacking in the postcard.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Warhol plays with that with the very notion of the Factory.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How Sandra Day O&#39;Connor fits into something that is either original or mass produced is beyond me, but I thought you were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114563633238704290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114563633238704290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145636280000#c114563633238704290' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114563549803999772</id><published>2006-04-21T12:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T12:04:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114563549803999772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114563549803999772'/><author><name>LBehrendt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17744661355732297091</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2117488632"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114562851760615518</id><published>2006-04-21T10:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T10:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lynn, Ron argued twenty years ago that if Benjamin...</title><summary type='text'>Lynn, Ron argued twenty years ago that if Benjamin had hung around and developed an anti-dialectical approach to context, Derrida would be flipping burgers for a living.  I don’t agree but..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114562851760615518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114562851760615518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145628480000#c114562851760615518' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114562025756216995</id><published>2006-04-21T07:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T07:50:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114562025756216995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114562025756216995'/><author><name>LBehrendt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17744661355732297091</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2117488632"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114559443648219386</id><published>2006-04-21T00:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-21T00:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i&#39;ll weigh in herethe thing about aura has so much...</title><summary type='text'>i&#39;ll weigh in here&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the thing about aura has so much to do with perception - benjamin&#39;s musings never fail to provoke thought&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;progress is a seemingly infinte series of clever illusions and inevitable disappointments&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;we hunger for authenticity&lt;BR/&gt;and we try to appropriate it&lt;BR/&gt;and then we fuck it up&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;like wilderness areas out west -&lt;BR/&gt;they&#39;ve become these </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114559443648219386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114559443648219386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145594400000#c114559443648219386' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114558370743524241</id><published>2006-04-20T21:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-20T21:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Your post got me thinking to the snippets of Benja...</title><summary type='text'>Your post got me thinking to the snippets of Benjamin&#39;s writing I&#39;ve read. I had never thought of aura in the way do; to me, aura was always strictly the quality that Benjamin believed an original had and a reproduction lacked.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In other words, I thought his question was: &quot;why does the Enola Gay have aura, and a photograph of the Enola Gay not?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But, you ask: &quot;why does the Enola </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114558370743524241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114558370743524241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145583660000#c114558370743524241' title=''/><author><name>Pacze Moj</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04455647830303860446</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1242037641"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114553459312985485</id><published>2006-04-20T08:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-20T08:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Exorcist broadcast will show just what this al...</title><summary type='text'>The Exorcist broadcast will show just what this all means and only add to Jim&#39;s aura.  I&#39;m afraid that radio is better at the aura thing than text.  As Walter Benjamin told us again and again.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114553459312985485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114553459312985485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145534580000#c114553459312985485' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114553270896668587</id><published>2006-04-20T07:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-20T07:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No it wasn&#39;t ironic. I just like the word wazoo.</title><summary type='text'>No it wasn&#39;t ironic. I just like the word wazoo.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114553270896668587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114553270896668587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145532660000#c114553270896668587' title=''/><author><name>Melissa Flores-Bórquez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04018357852750916687</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-534702968"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114550553304363887</id><published>2006-04-19T23:58:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T23:58:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I liked your post. What you say about Enola Gay&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>I liked your post. What you say about Enola Gay&#39;s aura, or the experiencing of history in the scent of a forest in California reminds me of Claude Lanzmann&#39;s film, &lt;I&gt;Shoah&lt;/I&gt;, when he visits the site of a Nazi death camp where massive executions took place but now only rocks and wind remain. He just stands there, feeling what you could call the aura of the place, but place as something forever </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550553304363887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550553304363887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145505480001#c114550553304363887' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11969105712582566329</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-987189629"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114550549541686734</id><published>2006-04-19T23:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T23:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If more Americans thought historically, good poems...</title><summary type='text'>If more Americans thought historically, good poems would be easier to write.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s gotten to where many people don&#39;t feel aura in their own hometown.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s nothing extratextual, only a larger text.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s that larger text that imbues aura.  And the &#39;text proper&#39; plays a shrinking role in Writing it.  Photos, video etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sometimes I wish that at least writers </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550549541686734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550549541686734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145505480000#c114550549541686734' title=''/><author><name>Gelsinger</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10399085537060016712</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-235357268"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114550353404084262</id><published>2006-04-19T23:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T23:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am completely undeserving of any praise, CAC--un...</title><summary type='text'>I am completely undeserving of any praise, CAC--undeserving of defense and undeserving of remaining in memory: but thanks. Kids would be better off named Notasoldier, Notastockbroker, Notaconsumer, Notahater, Notacommentfieldschmuck. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Soon all will be bared and this might be my greatest trick yet, my most daring escape to date...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550353404084262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114550353404084262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145503500000#c114550353404084262' title=''/><author><name>Jim</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01734624934674845114</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1932637426"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114547958192773128</id><published>2006-04-19T16:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T16:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jim, I feel like I&#39;ve just been in a fist-fight on...</title><summary type='text'>Jim, I feel like I&#39;ve just been in a fist-fight on this comment box, so it&#39;s hard to come on the other side of that and have something else to say.  But I am going to.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When Patrick Lester Herron was coming at me not long ago, he tried to conflate arguments about my support of you and your poems with the argument I was having with him, as a trick of course to derail me.  But the truth IS </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547958192773128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547958192773128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145479560000#c114547958192773128' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114547907580254655</id><published>2006-04-19T16:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T16:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Living with symbolic history up the wazoo, object...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Living with symbolic history up the wazoo, objects here are relatively seldom what they claim to be.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What a brilliant sentence! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Things are so bad I can&#39;t tell if this is ironic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547907580254655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547907580254655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145479020000#c114547907580254655' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114547868707646089</id><published>2006-04-19T16:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T16:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron,A few poets who complained to me in priva...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;A few poets who complained to me in private about your use of the word Psychotic yesterday just alerted me that you are in yesterday&#39;s comment box today.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Okay, I take back calling you Slander Silliman.  Maybe I&#39;m Slander Conrad?  No, I&#39;m not.  The word Psychotic is like a knife, no, not like a knife, IT IS Knife!  It&#39;s hard to imagine it used for anything but the negative.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547868707646089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114547868707646089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145478660000#c114547868707646089' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114546479403151507</id><published>2006-04-19T12:39:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T12:39:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sounds delicious. I&#39;m myspacing my mom about it ri...</title><summary type='text'>Sounds delicious. I&#39;m myspacing my mom about it right now.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546479403151507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546479403151507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145464740001#c114546479403151507' title=''/><author><name>Jim</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01734624934674845114</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1932637426"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114546476000661628</id><published>2006-04-19T12:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T12:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Living with symbolic history up the wazoo, object...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Living with symbolic history up the wazoo, objects here are relatively seldom what they claim to be.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What a brilliant sentence!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546476000661628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546476000661628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145464740000#c114546476000661628' title=''/><author><name>Melissa Flores-Bórquez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04018357852750916687</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-534702968"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114546470914094872</id><published>2006-04-19T12:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T12:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To the ordinary readerAll of this will be cleared ...</title><summary type='text'>To the ordinary reader&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All of this will be cleared up -- Jimmy, Curtis, Kirby, the Enola Gay and so on -- in the forthcoming radio program &quot;Exorcism on a Wet Afternoon:The Devil in Kent Johnson&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jimmy, of course, has the big role but everyone has a part.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Look for it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546470914094872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546470914094872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145464680000#c114546470914094872' 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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114546462892543174</id><published>2006-04-19T12:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T12:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you&#39;re ever down in Tucson, the Pima Air and Sp...</title><summary type='text'>If you&#39;re ever down in Tucson, the Pima Air and Space Museum is worth a visit, too.  It&#39;s not the scale of the Smithsonian&#39;s, of course, but has an excellent collection of hangered WWII planes, an SR-71 Blackbird, and some other cool space exhibits.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546462892543174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546462892543174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145464620000#c114546462892543174' title=''/><author><name>Simmons B. Buntin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02912485144027132314</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2091954450"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114546425858454804</id><published>2006-04-19T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-19T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And you think by now Ron would know how to spell m...</title><summary type='text'>And you think by now Ron would know how to spell my last name. I am thinking of being just Jim at some point. Like Cher or Alf.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546425858454804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114545064750487101/comments/default/114546425858454804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html?showComment=1145464200000#c114546425858454804' title=''/><author><name>Jim</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01734624934674845114</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/2006/04/ive-been-mulling-over-old-question-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114545064750487101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114545064750487101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1932637426"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2006"/></entry></feed>