<?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.post115452207863421961..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/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115479863634973485</id><published>2006-08-05T13:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T13:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Vulgarity I collapsed this text via adobe pdf.Impr...</title><summary type='text'>Vulgarity I collapsed this text via adobe pdf.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Impressed how the little pages flow into eachother,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and wondering about encountering this as a single line&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;of airport corridor arts commissioned text..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mt. woods – in a tankling gray coupe the young father crosses the crossroads with his 4 dotters piled on the seat beside </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115479863634973485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115479863634973485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154798580000#c115479863634973485' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068391526111662520</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1320777018"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115471167977787044</id><published>2006-08-04T13:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-04T13:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>DRI--Your mutations of mootmake my brain twitch.Re...</title><summary type='text'>DRI--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your mutations of moot&lt;BR/&gt;make my brain twitch.&lt;BR/&gt;Remember the song that&lt;BR/&gt;was playing the first&lt;BR/&gt;time you made love while&lt;BR/&gt;being in love?  The song&lt;BR/&gt;that encompasses all the&lt;BR/&gt;tender, loving energies of&lt;BR/&gt;your youth?  Now the song&lt;BR/&gt;blaring forth in an ad for&lt;BR/&gt;SUVs or something...and the&lt;BR/&gt;history of love is destroyed.&lt;BR/&gt;I think something is in this&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115471167977787044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115471167977787044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154711640000#c115471167977787044' title=''/><author><name>forkingspoon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05103242774838156692</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-619181895"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115465257557237125</id><published>2006-08-03T20:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T20:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am so happy that you posted something recently a...</title><summary type='text'>I am so happy that you posted something recently about Kerouac, because my husband gave me &quot;Pomes All Sizes&quot; for my birthday and I&#39;ve found some gems in it, but wondered, what would Silliman say about Jack? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks again.</summary><link 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href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154630580000#c115463060469773763' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115462490252465616</id><published>2006-08-03T13:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T13:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hello--i&#39;m having a hard time finding a definition...</title><summary type='text'>hello--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i&#39;m having a hard time finding a definition for the french form regardant.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;everything i&#39;ve found gives a literal definition.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;any help?&lt;BR/&gt;thanks!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115462490252465616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115462490252465616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154624880000#c115462490252465616' title=''/><author><name>angela vasquez-giroux</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00111771809497487444</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1901620241"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115461805302171820</id><published>2006-08-03T11:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T11:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kerouac is an entirely suitable subject for a Gap ...</title><summary type='text'>Kerouac is an entirely suitable subject for a Gap ad--the beats appropriation of working mens dress as a statement of iconoclastic white male individualism is directly responsible for such institutions as the Gap, casual Fridays and acid wash denim. As a writer Kerouac was warmed-over Wolfe but as a trend-setter his influence lives on the checkered backs of a million slackers.  Gap should put up </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461805302171820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461805302171820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154618040000#c115461805302171820' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16265963954337715983</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1136741023"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115461754201094700</id><published>2006-08-03T11:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T11:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve:  I think I meant that Viking&#39;s intention wa...</title><summary type='text'>Steve:  I think I meant that Viking&#39;s intention was to exploit JK&#39;s &quot;enthusiasm&quot; in much the same way that Max Perkins at Scribner had exploited Wolfe in the early years of his career.  Wolfe was certainly &quot;ungoverned&quot; (early editors despaired of hammering his huge rambling manuscripts into publishable shape).  Kerouac might have been regarded as just such a property, one who might &quot;mature&quot; into </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461754201094700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461754201094700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154617500000#c115461754201094700' 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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115461359397313661</id><published>2006-08-03T09:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-03T09:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>forkingspoon: nopeor at least, it could depend on ...</title><summary type='text'>forkingspoon: nope&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or at least, it could depend on what in the world you could mean by &quot;made moot.&quot;  In some sense, all discussion of literature is inherently &quot;moot&quot; (i.e., lacking in practical consequence).  Indeed its literary relevance may fairly depend on the irrelvance of the merely practical to its deeper concerns (if not to say vice versa).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Gap ad presumably exists in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461359397313661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115461359397313661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154613540000#c115461359397313661' 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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115456943834155628</id><published>2006-08-02T21:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T21:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Isn&#39;t any discussion of Kerouac&#39;s writings made mo...</title><summary type='text'>Isn&#39;t any discussion of Kerouac&#39;s writings made moot by the preface of the Gap ad?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115456943834155628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115456943834155628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154569380000#c115456943834155628' title=''/><author><name>forkingspoon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05103242774838156692</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-619181895"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115455654053493342</id><published>2006-08-02T18:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T18:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, Paul (and All)--First, by “first-deaft” I mea...</title><summary type='text'>Hey, Paul (and All)--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First, by “first-deaft” I meant “first-draft,” but if “first-deaft” comments cleverly on the mistakes Kerouac claimed to have wanted publishers to keep as part of his art, then I claim it.  If not, not.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Second, too many readers, especially young ones caught in Kerouac amphetamine-typewriter myth (original, continuous paper = original, continuous mind), </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455654053493342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455654053493342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154556540000#c115455654053493342' title=''/><author><name>Steve Davenport</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04625315898016728046</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1735059185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115455181311843581</id><published>2006-08-02T16:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T16:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d never seen anything of Kerouac&#39;s like this (pa...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d never seen anything of Kerouac&#39;s like this (part of a) Sketch.  It seems it could make a good adjunct to the novels.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m reminded that in lower Manhattan sometime last decade, it was being booted about that On The Road would be produced as a film.  There was talk of casting extras.  But a quick check of the Internet Movie Database confirms my impression it never happened.  What&#39;s up </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455181311843581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455181311843581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154551800000#c115455181311843581' 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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115455004173180312</id><published>2006-08-02T16:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T16:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Has anyone ever pursued a conflation of Kerouac’s ...</title><summary type='text'>Has anyone ever pursued a conflation of Kerouac’s papers/manuscripts from disparate collections, in the mode of the Whitman archives? It would be an interesting research tool.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455004173180312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115455004173180312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154550000000#c115455004173180312' title=''/><author><name>E. R. Dunhill</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14509853932305428602</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-352699808"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115454351286551083</id><published>2006-08-02T14:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T14:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kerouac has suffered the fate of the &quot;brilliant am...</title><summary type='text'>Kerouac has suffered the fate of the &quot;brilliant amateur&quot;--that is, scant attention paid to textual detail, amateur editing, slipshod publication, and a general lack of serious critical regard.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Town and the City is clearly based on (and was marketed as) a traditional Thomas Wolfe novel, the rambling, picaresque American homegrown fairytale, with a pretentious style and an ungoverned</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115454351286551083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115454351286551083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154543460000#c115454351286551083' 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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115453771700450874</id><published>2006-08-02T12:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,Can you elaborate on &quot;unsettling romantic no...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Can you elaborate on &quot;unsettling romantic notions about first-deaft writing...&quot; if you&#39;d be so kind. Am interested in the Spicer notion of the &lt;I&gt;quick take&lt;/I&gt; or the &lt;I&gt;Projective &lt;/I&gt;in Olson parlance, or the &lt;I&gt;Organic &lt;/I&gt;as Duncan and Levertov once called it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Grazie,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Paul&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;P.S. It&#39;s good to have the blog back to normal Ron.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115453771700450874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115453771700450874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154537700000#c115453771700450874' title=''/><author><name>peN</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-499294682"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115453277993510784</id><published>2006-08-02T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T11:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, Ron, for these Kerouac entries.  I wrote a...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, Ron, for these Kerouac entries.  I wrote a Kerouac dissertation in the late 1980s, very early 1990s.  It was an exciting time to do the work because Kerouac/Beat business was starting to cook, explode even, with Kerouac documentaries (1984 especially) and memoirs by Joyce Johnson and Carolyn Cassady. It was frustrating too because it would be another ten years before archival material (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115453277993510784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115452207863421961/comments/default/115453277993510784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html?showComment=1154532720000#c115453277993510784' title=''/><author><name>Steve Davenport</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04625315898016728046</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/2006/08/here-in-its-entirety-is-history-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115452207863421961' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115452207863421961' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1735059185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2006"/></entry></feed>