<?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.post115884426288188034..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/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.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>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115887572495805375</id><published>2006-09-21T17:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T17:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Omby -- Thanks much for the careful reading and ex...</title><summary type='text'>Omby -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks much for the careful reading and explication of the opaque toilet excerpt.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The toilet in London with the two-way mirror - with the person inside able to see out but not vice-versa - certainly seems  unusual. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yet in prisons and military barracks, toilets usually have no doors or much in the way of enclosures or privacy screens.  Everyone can pretty much </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115887572495805375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115887572495805375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158875700000#c115887572495805375' 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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115887016122816083</id><published>2006-09-21T16:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T16:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t consider making comments in the box &quot;blogg...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t consider making comments in the box &quot;blogging&quot; but maybe my definition is limited. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And I don&#39;t mind our comments vanishing either.  On some level, our comment-box chatter is, as the cliche about talk goes, cheap. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s plenty of examples of things, even well-made  things, that vanish without a trace.  The sand-castle built on the tide line.  The firework after  it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115887016122816083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115887016122816083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158870120000#c115887016122816083' 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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115886509327708774</id><published>2006-09-21T14:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T14:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some months back, Ron&#39;s blog crashed and--as he re...</title><summary type='text'>Some months back, Ron&#39;s blog crashed and--as he reported to me--all the blog-box entries were lost with it, and he doesn&#39;t believe it would be worthwhile (though potentially do-able) to try to retrieve them from hyper-space oblivion.  It&#39;s occurred to me from time to time that we who ambitiously blog might actually have something worth saving over time, if it weren&#39;t for the dissolving fabric of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115886509327708774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115886509327708774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158865080000#c115886509327708774' 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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115886220127412447</id><published>2006-09-21T14:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T14:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>--which left me wondering, amused, if the occupant...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;--which left me wondering, amused, if the occupant of the stall might have failed to realize that the &quot;opacity&quot; was only apparent from inside the stall, and that they were still visible through the glass, from outside!&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis, try reading what you&#39;re commenting on for a change. What did it say? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Each toilet had a transparent door; when I went inside &lt;B&gt;and locked the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115886220127412447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115886220127412447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158862200000#c115886220127412447' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115885753019484706</id><published>2006-09-21T12:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T12:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tthe issue of Double Change with the Brossard inte...</title><summary type='text'>Tthe issue of &lt;I&gt;Double Change&lt;/I&gt; with the Brossard interview and Jeff Clark poems looks to be at least three and possibly as many as five years old.  The bio for Jeff Clark shows him living in Oakland, which hasn&#39;t been the case for at least three years, if I remember right (he&#39;s in Michigan now).  And the list of Jeff Clark books in the bio does not include &lt;I&gt;Music and Suicide&lt;/I&gt;,  although </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115885753019484706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115885753019484706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158857520000#c115885753019484706' 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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115885274134428467</id><published>2006-09-21T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T11:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Double Change displays in dark red—impossible to r...</title><summary type='text'>Double Change displays in dark red—impossible to read that way.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I had to copy the text display and put it into word.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;From the interview pre-text in Double Change:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;At the end of our talk, Brossard urged me to see the bathrooms at the bar, telling me they would really be worth my visit. Each toilet had a transparent door; when I went inside and locked the door, it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115885274134428467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115884426288188034/comments/default/115885274134428467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html?showComment=1158852720000#c115885274134428467' 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/2006/09/there-is-certain-aptness-to-reading.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115884426288188034' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115884426288188034' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry></feed>