<?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.post114897543333588113..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/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/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>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114930716799995516</id><published>2006-06-02T23:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T23:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>curtis____white haircomes with sirenic cronehood</title><summary type='text'>curtis____&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;white hair&lt;BR/&gt;comes with sirenic cronehood</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114930716799995516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114930716799995516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149307140000#c114930716799995516' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114930622621471483</id><published>2006-06-02T23:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T23:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>White hair is unusual.  We had a friend years ago ...</title><summary type='text'>White hair is unusual.  We had a friend years ago in Iowa who was totally white-haired, and had pink (I swear) eyes.  She wasn&#39;t an albino, but close.  Almost total absence of pigment.  She married the local bookstore employee and they had three kids, all grown up now and probably generating grandchildren.  I haven&#39;t thought of her in at least 10 years.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pictures can lie too.  If I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114930622621471483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114930622621471483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149306180000#c114930622621471483' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114928936768041554</id><published>2006-06-02T19:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T19:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Do I have provocative photos? I wonder what they p...</title><summary type='text'>Do I have provocative photos? I wonder what they provoke...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually (until today) all the digital photos I had of myself were from theater and music performaces. I&#39;m not really into dressing up in my everyday life. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In any case, Suzanne, no lawsuit coming from here; it&#39;s hair worth the vanity. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder what Curtis, Joe, Arlee, Ian look like, among others. I found a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114928936768041554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114928936768041554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149289320000#c114928936768041554' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114926530810032231</id><published>2006-06-02T12:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T12:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>do you wonder about the provocative photosof CACon...</title><summary type='text'>do you wonder about the &lt;BR/&gt;provocative photos&lt;BR/&gt;of CAConrad&lt;BR/&gt;or Andy&lt;BR/&gt;or phaneronoemikon&lt;BR/&gt;or even of ron?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;can curiosity be vicarious?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I only post photos&lt;BR/&gt;I think are&lt;BR/&gt;good photographs&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and my moonstruck locks&lt;BR/&gt;are my one physical vanity&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;so sue me</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114926530810032231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114926530810032231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149265260000#c114926530810032231' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114925960769101162</id><published>2006-06-02T10:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T10:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not much of a boater myself, Suzanne.  But I&#39;l...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not much of a boater myself, Suzanne.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I&#39;ll admit to being impatient with anonymous posters who engage in personal attacks, instead of addressing the topics.  They&#39;re known as &quot;trolls&quot; on some blogs, a term I believe combines the twin meanings of &quot;trolling&quot; as in dragging your fishing line around trying to catch one, and the little midget creatures from fantasy literature.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114925960769101162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114925960769101162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149259560000#c114925960769101162' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114921498969066735</id><published>2006-06-01T22:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-01T22:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I beg to differ with you, kirby,as usual.there hav...</title><summary type='text'>I beg to differ with you, kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;as usual.&lt;BR/&gt;there have never been&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;a lot of women commenting here&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;and the &quot;huge intra-gender brawl&quot; you mention involved around four women . . .&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and speaking only for myself&lt;BR/&gt;not all womankind&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t comment often&lt;BR/&gt;because &lt;I&gt;much&lt;/I&gt; of what happens&lt;BR/&gt;in these comment boxes&lt;BR/&gt;is not dialogue &lt;BR/&gt;it&#39;s oneupsmanship&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114921498969066735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114921498969066735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149214980000#c114921498969066735' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114917528758129653</id><published>2006-06-01T11:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-01T11:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There were a lot of women until just a few months ...</title><summary type='text'>There were a lot of women until just a few months ago when they had a huge intra-gender brawl and chased one another out.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now the few that remain use male pseudonyms.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114917528758129653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114917528758129653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149175260000#c114917528758129653' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114915782886659152</id><published>2006-06-01T06:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-01T06:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No Curtis,I don&#39;t think I can for it. You&#39;re wicke...</title><summary type='text'>No Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think I can for it. You&#39;re wicked, because as Ron knows, (and seemingly few others recognize it but I&lt;BR/&gt;see it) at heart you&#39;re a poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There ain&#39;t know way in HELL, I can win this argument. No offense. But HELL no. Poets don&#39;t fight fair. Unless they&#39;re extraordinarily decent human beings, somehow. Only a few of those out there. I don&#39;t know in fact if you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114915782886659152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114915782886659152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149157800000#c114915782886659152' title=''/><author><name>AlGinsberg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10741391688261637474</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1385907536"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114913207211902607</id><published>2006-05-31T23:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T23:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Si signore.</title><summary type='text'>Si signore.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114913207211902607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114913207211902607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149132060000#c114913207211902607' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114912781357400460</id><published>2006-05-31T22:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T22:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ps: since Parks translated it, I think it must be ...</title><summary type='text'>ps: since Parks translated it, I think it must be [primarily] in Italian not Portugese! ;-) yes ??</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912781357400460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912781357400460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149127800000#c114912781357400460' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114912771524759340</id><published>2006-05-31T22:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T22:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,you got me google-curious [a hyphenated spec...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;you got me google-curious [a hyphenated species of affect].&lt;BR/&gt;According to this journalistic source, Tabu is deemed Italian:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Antonio Tabucchi continues his progress towards becoming an Italian Graham Greene.&quot; - The Economist (17/5/1997) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This guy, on the other hand, identifieds T. [by mere implication, admittedly] as &quot;European&quot; (in his concerns -- hence, arguably, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912771524759340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912771524759340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149127680000#c114912771524759340' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114912542213344895</id><published>2006-05-31T21:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T21:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>David, I guess it boils down to what it says on hi...</title><summary type='text'>David, I guess it boils down to what it says on his passport at least in some sense.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not that any of our hyphenated Americans would agree.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I feel a country song coming on,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Proud to be American,&lt;BR/&gt;Land of the free...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hee hee hee.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-- Kirby</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912542213344895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114912542213344895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149125400000#c114912542213344895' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114911627502095254</id><published>2006-05-31T18:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T18:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,I know the feeling.  Still &amp; all . . .CHANG...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know the feeling.  Still &amp; all . . .&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CHANGES IN A WORLD OF BOOKS&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shoemaker&#39;s vagrom from Counterpoint?&lt;BR/&gt;Hamill gets booted from Copper Canyon?&lt;BR/&gt;curtains for Cody&#39;s on Telegraph? --&lt;BR/&gt;Gautama quick! can you find a banyan?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;d.i.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114911627502095254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114911627502095254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149116220000#c114911627502095254' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114911190771456138</id><published>2006-05-31T17:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T17:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>David:  It seems that Hamill, whose work, by the w...</title><summary type='text'>David:  It seems that Hamill, whose work, by the way, I&#39;m not much interested, nor the editorial choices the Copper Canyon made under his direction, has been kicked out of CC.  Some kind of snafu....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I sent a very cordial e.mail asking whether CC would be interested in considering for publication a Larry Eigner Selected, and he didn&#39;t even have the decency to acknowledge my communication</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114911190771456138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114911190771456138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149111900000#c114911190771456138' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114910279724602696</id><published>2006-05-31T15:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T15:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,incidentally, the poet Sam Hamill said he e...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;incidentally, the poet Sam Hamill said he established Copper Canyon Press for the sort of reasons you sketch: as a way of grasping, in all concrete detail, what a book and its making are about [paraphrase from memory of a remark at a reading some dozen years ago].&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;have you never heard of &quot;hyphenated Americans&quot;?  On this model, one thinks the concept of an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114910279724602696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114910279724602696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149102780000#c114910279724602696' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114909062618260981</id><published>2006-05-31T11:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T11:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Ron would agree about privately printed bo...</title><summary type='text'>I think Ron would agree about privately printed books by authors of note.  It would be unrealistic to advocate the self-publication of long popular novels--a most inefficient way to reach a public.  Ditto with computer books...--well, there are a host of exceptions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My point is that the &quot;making&quot; of a work of art, such as writing a poem, then conceiving it in its ultimate form, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114909062618260981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114909062618260981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149090600000#c114909062618260981' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114908574370205031</id><published>2006-05-31T10:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T10:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tabucchi appears to be an Italian living as a Port...</title><summary type='text'>Tabucchi appears to be an Italian living as a Portuguese.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Doesn&#39;t this make him Portuguese?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He spends half the year in Portugal where he is the director of some Italian cultural agency. He is an expert on Pessoa.  Most of his books are set in Portugal, or in a Portuguese context.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Can someone from one country become a person from another country?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you take</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114908574370205031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114908574370205031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149085740000#c114908574370205031' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114908180120053534</id><published>2006-05-31T09:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T09:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There may a useful distinction between vanity pres...</title><summary type='text'>There may a useful distinction between vanity press operations and self-publishing a la Reznikoff.  Yet Ron&#39;s comment above seemed to conflate the two concepts, or at least put them very close to each other, as I did in my response to him.  Maybe we both actually support and acknowledge the worthiness of self-publishing, a la Reznikoff (and surely there are other examples).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The major </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114908180120053534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114908180120053534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149081780000#c114908180120053534' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114906751130622276</id><published>2006-05-31T05:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T05:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know about the &#39;nobility&#39; of self-publicat...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know about the &#39;nobility&#39; of self-publication; that would depend on the motives of the author, wouldn&#39;t it? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But one thing is certain: self-publishing and Vanity Presses are TOTALLY different propositions. I&#39;ve spoken to a number of people who&#39;ve self-published; they found the experience satisfying, if only in that it gave them a better understanding of the process. Some (one in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114906751130622276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114906751130622276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149067500000#c114906751130622276' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904885575734621</id><published>2006-05-31T00:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T00:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Vanity condescension is a relatively new phenomeno...</title><summary type='text'>Vanity condescension is a relatively new phenomenon.  So-called &quot;private&quot; publication, since Gutenberg, is based on the notion of a jury of authority and censorship which judges the suitability of a manuscript removing the &quot;vanity&quot; from the Author and blessing it with the encomium of official approval.  &quot;Public&quot;-ation is an illusion which persists to this day.  Major trade publishers are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904885575734621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904885575734621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149048840000#c114904885575734621' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904436648041930</id><published>2006-05-30T22:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T22:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron and all: I concede that Hillyer and lots of ot...</title><summary type='text'>Ron and all: I concede that Hillyer and lots of others  tried to get Pound banned, particularly post World War II.  Not sure if the good Dr. Williams had virulent haters.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I disagree that is is speculation or hindsight for me to say that Pound and Williams would have been published without New Directions, because in fact both were published by others. Faber and Faber in England </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904436648041930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904436648041930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149044340000#c114904436648041930' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904298890059213</id><published>2006-05-30T22:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T22:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,ND does have other other titles of Tabucchi&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ND does have other other titles of Tabucchi&#39;s in print (in English translation), if memory serves.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers,&lt;BR/&gt;d.i.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904298890059213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904298890059213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149042960000#c114904298890059213' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904193165134360</id><published>2006-05-30T22:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T22:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, On a French site it said that Tabucchi&#39;s &quot;gen...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, On a French site it said that Tabucchi&#39;s &quot;genetic baggage&quot; (bagage genetique) partially contained Portuguese.  It didn&#39;t say much more than that.  He&#39;s married to a woman poet from Lisbon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I just assumed there was a love/familial connection.  Does this seem too much of a stretch. When people go to the trouble of learning off-the-beaten-track languages, it&#39;s usually love or family </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904193165134360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904193165134360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149041880000#c114904193165134360' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904112638508706</id><published>2006-05-30T22:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T22:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>algin:I have three issues with you:One) Anonymity....</title><summary type='text'>algin:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have three issues with you:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One) Anonymity.  Anonymity is horseshit.  Or chickenshit, actually.  Come out of the shadows and state your case, take responsibility for your identity, and your own opinions.  Anonymity can be charming and fun, but when it gets personal, it&#39;s chickenshit, plain and simple.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Two) You don&#39;t engage on actual issues.  You get into </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904112638508706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904112638508706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149041100000#c114904112638508706' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114904048079917201</id><published>2006-05-30T21:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T21:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I doubt if your nephew knows PERFECT Portugue...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I doubt if your nephew knows PERFECT Portuguese, or could know the difference between almost perfect and perfect Portuguese, which the narrator of Indian Nocturne says he knows.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All I was saying is that there had to be a familial or a love connection to Portugal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course in the case of your cousin this is the case.  But I think almost no one who picks up a language late </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904048079917201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114897543333588113/comments/default/114904048079917201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html?showComment=1149040440000#c114904048079917201' 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/eliot-weinberger-responds-to-andrew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114897543333588113' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114897543333588113' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2006"/></entry></feed>