<?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.post114683051579208291..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/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114714922367191379</id><published>2006-05-09T00:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T00:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey man it&#39;s a shame that you didn&#39;t hang around. ...</title><summary type='text'>Hey man it&#39;s a shame that you didn&#39;t hang around.  But I ask you who&#39;s needing humility?  I&#39;m talking about getting hit with bee-bee gun pellets from people I never met.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The funny thing is, and it REALLY IS A FUNNY THING, that PhillySound is a bunch of poets who met, dig what we&#39;re all doing, had a festival, things took off.  Things were also going on before too, meaning poets like Gil </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114714922367191379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114714922367191379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1147149180000#c114714922367191379' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114712813655436315</id><published>2006-05-08T18:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T18:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear CAConrad, It was good to meet you and hear yo...</title><summary type='text'>Dear CAConrad, &lt;BR/&gt;It was good to meet you and hear you read a couple of weeks ago at U. Penn. I must admit, it was an interesting experience for me; it was my first time at a poetry reading at Penn, and in a way it was not much different from the architecture lectures there... It is such a pity that there is such a defined us/them, that the the poetry scene in Philadelphia is so fractured. But </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114712813655436315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114712813655436315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1147128120000#c114712813655436315' title=''/><author><name>arch.memory</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13902709126678545260</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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-644482785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114712442647664104</id><published>2006-05-08T17:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T17:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stephen Fry.  I hated those. I&#39;m glad to hear of t...</title><summary type='text'>Stephen Fry.  I hated those. I&#39;m glad to hear of the Vidal remark!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A lot of people thinkk Wodehouse is the topper, and I think he&#39;s going to last.  About half of his 120 some books are stilll in print thirty years after his death.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anything with Jeeves in the title is the best.  Could cheer up even the most moribund person.  When I was nineteen and chonrically depressed I began </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114712442647664104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114712442647664104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1147124400000#c114712442647664104' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114711809439048129</id><published>2006-05-08T15:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-08T15:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gore Vidal said Wodehouse was the only humorist he...</title><summary type='text'>Gore Vidal said Wodehouse was the only humorist he could read, gave him endless pleasure.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve never been able to read P.G., but those British TV adaptations, which starred the guy who&#39;s that unshaven doctor on Fox TV now, were pretty lighthearted.  The butler (Jeeves) too.  What&#39;s his name, Stephen something....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114711809439048129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114711809439048129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1147118040000#c114711809439048129' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114695633540825637</id><published>2006-05-06T18:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T18:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The strangest is Celine: when he says that Staling...</title><summary type='text'>The strangest is Celine: when he says that Stalingrad was the end of the white race.  And then he asks, &quot;how&#39;s that for catharsis?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He barely survived the 2nd world war.  He turned in his own Jewish doctor for the fee, according to Soupault. I don&#39;t know how anybody has ever managed to read his work.  So nuts.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Give me P.G. Wodehouse or anything packaged by the big 6 any day, and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114695633540825637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114695633540825637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1146956280000#c114695633540825637' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114693053882069577</id><published>2006-05-06T11:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-06T11:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Paris Review Interviews were good when the sub...</title><summary type='text'>The Paris Review Interviews were good when the subjects were ancient beasts who had somehow survived two wars, two depressions (one psychological), or the challenge of being very famous for a long time.  They were temporarily caged, and resented being poked with prods and giggled at by children licking suckers.  Or maybe they liked that, being naked in a public zoo.  Marianne Moore would have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114693053882069577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114693053882069577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1146930480000#c114693053882069577' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114684874317536108</id><published>2006-05-05T13:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-05T13:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Althusser would say Moore was concocting ‘...</title><summary type='text'>I think Althusser would say Moore was concocting ‘white lies’ for Hall that became their own miniature ideology.  Althusser and Moore mostly differ on whether the toads are real.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114684874317536108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114684874317536108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1146848700000#c114684874317536108' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114684741481436494</id><published>2006-05-05T12:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-05T12:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, glad to see you talking about these interview...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, glad to see you talking about these interviews.  And wanted to say that I&#39;m most interested in those interviews BEFORE we understood the interview to be what it is.  Jonathan Skinner recently invited me and Frank Sherlock over to watch interviews of Olson which blew us away, and mostly I think BECAUSE he was so uninhibited.  Olson was so beautiful!  His love and warmth for Timothy Leary and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114684741481436494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114683051579208291/comments/default/114684741481436494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html?showComment=1146847380000#c114684741481436494' 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/2006/05/ive-been-reading-rereading-mostly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114683051579208291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114683051579208291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2006"/></entry></feed>