<?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.post114958789648092064..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/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/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>84</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115047056240414879</id><published>2006-06-16T11:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T11:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,I find the dialog here more rewarding than a...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I find the dialog here more rewarding than any other on-line discussion on poetics. There are so few people who are really interested in knowing and developing their undertanding in the world that when one finds a place where that happens, it is of value. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am trying to get the most out of this venue to strengthen and deepen my own understanding of Olson and others of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115047056240414879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115047056240414879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150470540000#c115047056240414879' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115046721549616096</id><published>2006-06-16T10:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T10:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I see your logic, now, Paul.</title><summary type='text'>I see your logic, now, Paul.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115046721549616096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115046721549616096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150467180000#c115046721549616096' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043990221756928</id><published>2006-06-16T02:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T02:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Williams was the first to mention fields, in relat...</title><summary type='text'>Williams was the first to mention fields, in relation to poetry, in his &lt;B&gt;The Poem as a Field of Action &lt;/B&gt;essay. (1948)  Olson called Projective Verse &quot;Composition by Field&quot; and is it a coincidence that Duncan had a book called &lt;I&gt;The Opening of the Field?&lt;/I&gt; Nope. &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_%28physics%29&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Quantum Field theory&lt;/A&gt; came to be in the 20&#39;s and 30</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043990221756928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043990221756928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150439880000#c115043990221756928' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043904534210195</id><published>2006-06-16T02:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T02:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis wrote:You make these huge leaps of faith ab...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;B&gt;You make these huge leaps of faith about the &quot;capacity to listen&quot;--I mean, what has this to do with Olson?&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, in Projective Verse Olson said several things about LISTENING. For example:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Verse with the &lt;B&gt;EAR &lt;/B&gt;as measurer &lt;/I&gt; and&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;&lt;B&gt;Listening &lt;/B&gt;for the syllables must be so constant and so scrupulous&lt;/I&gt; and&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043904534210195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043904534210195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150439040000#c115043904534210195' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043855648007593</id><published>2006-06-16T02:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T02:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>He sd, &quot;You go all around the subject.&quot; And I sd: ...</title><summary type='text'>He sd, &quot;You go all around the subject.&quot; And I sd: &quot;I didn&#39;t know it was a sub-&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ject.&quot; He sd: &quot;You twist&quot; and I sd: &quot;I do.&quot; He said other things. And I didn&#39;t&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;say anything.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nor do I know&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;that this is a rail&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;on which all (or any)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;will ride (as, by Pullman&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;      that sense that ads are right abt, that you are&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;      taken care of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043855648007593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043855648007593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150438500000#c115043855648007593' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043788837562094</id><published>2006-06-16T02:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T02:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Olson again:  it could be argued that it is becaus...</title><summary type='text'>Olson again: &lt;I&gt; it could be argued that it is because Eliot has stayed inside the non-projective that he fails as a dramatist - that his root is the miond alone, and a scholastic mind at that...and that, in his listenings he has stayed outward rather than, as I say a projective poet will, down through the workings of his own throat to that place where breath comes from, where breath has its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043788837562094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043788837562094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150437840000#c115043788837562094' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043735368292462</id><published>2006-06-16T01:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T01:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>OK, Charles Olson said in Projective Verse he want...</title><summary type='text'>OK, Charles Olson said in Projective Verse he wanted to suggest a few ideas about what &lt;I&gt; stance toward reality brings such verse into being.&lt;/I&gt; What stance is that?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is that simple and reasonable enough for you Kirby?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Paul</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043735368292462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115043735368292462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150437300000#c115043735368292462' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115042444626108951</id><published>2006-06-15T22:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T22:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Applause for Curtis. Just when the whole blog seem...</title><summary type='text'>Applause for Curtis. Just when the whole blog seems to be going bananas, Curtis reasserts reason and reasonableness.  Not a moment too soon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s true, the conflation of Duncan and Olson. Whack.  And throw in a little Whitehead and some whack junk from Tibet and our far eastern northwestern gaga goof ups, and whaddya got?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Turn the page.  Back to Berkeley. The Bishop moves </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115042444626108951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115042444626108951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150424400000#c115042444626108951' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115041292867885323</id><published>2006-06-15T19:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T19:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I categorically reject the notion--common to certa...</title><summary type='text'>I categorically reject the notion--common to certain Eastern systems of religious thinking--that obsequy and &quot;acceptance&quot; constitute a political act.  Civil disobedience aside, are we attempting to make a &quot;pacifist&quot; out of Olson?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The discussion was about Olson&#39;s concepts of poetic practice, and how that practice influenced later generations of poets.  Duncan and Levertov--neither their</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115041292867885323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115041292867885323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150412880000#c115041292867885323' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115034104231209307</id><published>2006-06-14T23:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-14T23:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,I thank you for your apology and I want to ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I thank you for your apology and I want to clarify a couple of things. I was asked for a username when registering for this blog, so I took the name of the venue I helped create, the Northwest SPokenword LAB or SPLAB! and used SPLABMAN. Kinda tricky, but not slabman.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I went back to your post and had to do some hunting for it. I&#39;ll post the relevant parts and comment from</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115034104231209307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115034104231209307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150341000000#c115034104231209307' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115025111754132104</id><published>2006-06-13T22:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-13T22:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Slabman:I hope I didn&#39;t inordinately offend you a ...</title><summary type='text'>Slabman:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope I didn&#39;t inordinately offend you a couple of blog entries back.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You didn&#39;t reply.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I felt you were being very argumentative and manipulative in your post.  But I may have been acting more defensive than the situation demanded.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m perfectly willing to listen to any argument, as long as I&#39;m not being accused of being predetermined to be unable </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115025111754132104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115025111754132104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150251060000#c115025111754132104' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115017738055376695</id><published>2006-06-13T01:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-13T01:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,My name is Paul Everett Nelson Jr. I am not ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My name is Paul Everett Nelson Jr. I am not a Pacifist. I&#39;d defend my daughter with violence if neccessary, but it won&#39;t come to that, nor am I interested in war, physical, mental or otherwise. I DO value dialog.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.globalvoicesradio.org&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.splab.org&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;are the two main websites connected to me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for your interest.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;peN</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115017738055376695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115017738055376695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150177380000#c115017738055376695' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115008816313797302</id><published>2006-06-12T00:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-12T00:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pacifists kill me.But I prefer them to terrorists....</title><summary type='text'>Pacifists kill me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I prefer them to terrorists.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;17,000 years and all they came up with is yak butter.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But that&#39;s better than suicide bombers.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re ok, I&#39;m ok.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis is ok.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ok?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you. I don&#39;t agree, but thank you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it&#39;s possible to have an army, to have a police force, and to use it effectively in the name of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115008816313797302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115008816313797302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150088160000#c115008816313797302' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115003855317704927</id><published>2006-06-11T11:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T11:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A pirate, from St. Augustine&#39;s &quot;City of God&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Benjamin Franklin&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt; All of us have heard this term &quot;preventive war&quot; since the earliest </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115003855317704927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/115003855317704927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1150038540000#c115003855317704927' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114999794980186883</id><published>2006-06-10T23:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T23:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The war economy depends upon one of three possible...</title><summary type='text'>The war economy depends upon one of three possible propositions: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One) We&#39;re going to start a war, so we need to prepare for waging it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Two) We&#39;re going to be invaded, so we need to prepare for waging it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Three) We need a deterrence against the possibility of being preemptively attacked. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Take your pick.  Historically there are good arguments for all three </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114999794980186883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114999794980186883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149997920000#c114999794980186883' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114999343960043049</id><published>2006-06-10T22:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T22:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The category Tibetans is rather broad Kirby. I can...</title><summary type='text'>The category &lt;I&gt;Tibetans&lt;/I&gt; is rather broad Kirby. I can only speak based on my limited study and practice of the Tibetan Jangter Bon Tradition and the meta message I get is that your thoughts determine your reality. So if one prepares for war, that will be what one gets.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Was it not Einstein who said: &quot;You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war&quot;?? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Respectfully,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114999343960043049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114999343960043049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149993420000#c114999343960043049' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114998971373393666</id><published>2006-06-10T21:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T21:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Splabman,the meta-message i get from the Tibetans ...</title><summary type='text'>Splabman,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the meta-message i get from the Tibetans is this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;prepare for war if you want peace.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998971373393666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998971373393666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149989700000#c114998971373393666' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114998571254607976</id><published>2006-06-10T20:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T20:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,Beard gone, I live in what was called Slaugh...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beard gone, I live in what was called Slaughter, but am called to investigate and practice its antidote, which apparently includes dialog with you. Tibetan culture has become a diaspora, which, ironically, has helped create awareness of it OUTSIDE Tibet. Bon culture preceeds Christianity by 17,000 or so years, by the way.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bring the sword K.O. And hope when you and your </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998571254607976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998571254607976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149985680000#c114998571254607976' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114998212055975417</id><published>2006-06-10T19:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T19:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis sounds like the Unabomber here.Splabman, wh...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis sounds like the Unabomber here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Splabman, why do we even still talk of Tibet? Wasn&#39;t it swallowed up by the Maoists?  It no longer exists, and its few remaining gentility freaks are now museum cultures residing in gentle hill-towns surviving on tourism.  But at the Metropolitan just now there&#39;s a good show about the archers that once resided within Tibet.  And they were Buddhists </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998212055975417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114998212055975417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149982080000#c114998212055975417' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114995085214448766</id><published>2006-06-10T10:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-10T10:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Demographers and geneticists and epidemiologists a...</title><summary type='text'>Demographers and geneticists and epidemiologists all believe that humankind--on its present track--is doomed to mass die-offs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We know that closely-knit societies of mammals are particularly susceptible to certain kinds of opportunistic infections.  AIDS is only the &quot;first wave&quot; of these kinds of mutated viruses coming down the road.  Ebola virus is another--what happens if that becomes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114995085214448766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114995085214448766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149950820000#c114995085214448766' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114990699866113933</id><published>2006-06-09T22:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T22:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ACK, we&#39;re still on this?!?OK Kirby, Not sure why ...</title><summary type='text'>ACK, we&#39;re still on this?!?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;OK &lt;B&gt;Kirby&lt;/B&gt;, Not sure why you feel I believe Olson was a &quot;SLOUCH&quot; so maybe you could elaborate and I can clarify. As to MY PICTURE showing me being a slouch, well, uh, I WAS on vacation on an island in Clayoquot Sound with waves crashing onto the black rock on which I was standing, so I am not sure why I should have been STANDING AT ATTENTION here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114990699866113933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114990699866113933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149906960000#c114990699866113933' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114988521861576862</id><published>2006-06-09T16:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T16:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy, remember at the beginning of the piece Ron s...</title><summary type='text'>Andy, remember at the beginning of the piece Ron says he is going to teach a course at Naropa on dialectical materialism, and this sends him back to Olson?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, that is the reason I am writing about programs, and then comparing those programs (the algorithm of class genocide by Marxists, or race genocide, or gender genocide) and comparing it to Olson&#39;s bizarrely and in some ways quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114988521861576862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114988521861576862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149885180000#c114988521861576862' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114988010291194899</id><published>2006-06-09T15:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T15:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, and by the way, no need for &quot;kill whitey&quot; (whi...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, and by the way, no need for &quot;kill whitey&quot; (which, I assume, is another intentional and not fully honest attempt to provoke, since your contempt for poetics related to race is at odds with your stated discomfort with what Adorno said about jazz, a rather un-nuanced and all too common summary of Adorno&#39;s position as well); white people are dying out. Well, their birth rates, all around the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114988010291194899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114988010291194899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149880080000#c114988010291194899' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114987910222192188</id><published>2006-06-09T14:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T14:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Man, Kirby. Conrad can&#39;t say of (I believe it was)...</title><summary type='text'>Man, Kirby. &lt;BR/&gt;Conrad can&#39;t say of (I believe it was) men who beat up their wives that &quot;some people need to have their teeth punched in,&quot; but you can say that Dworkin &quot;deserved&quot; her heart attack for WRITING something? Tsk, tsk. Does this really accord with your principled principles? I&#39;m quite serious. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As usual, I agree with a tiny core of what you say here: the Dems are utter losers,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114987910222192188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114987910222192188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149879060000#c114987910222192188' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114986379182273475</id><published>2006-06-09T10:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T10:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The notion that there is a clearly discernible pro...</title><summary type='text'>The notion that there is a clearly discernible progress in History was a big part of Modernism. Even the Calvinists such as George Bancroft were into this under the name of Progress.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lately that&#39;s come under fire.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But you still need a plan.  The bait and switch from history to epistemology still doesn&#39;t imply a plan.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like to reduce a poet&#39;s plan to a single </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114986379182273475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114958789648092064/comments/default/114986379182273475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html?showComment=1149863760000#c114986379182273475' 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/2006/06/i-was-asked-to-come-limitations-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114958789648092064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114958789648092064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2006"/></entry></feed>