<?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.post116609736384416256..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/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.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-116657577472914262</id><published>2006-12-19T19:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-19T19:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;So we beat on, boats against the current, borne b...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve always, since childhood, had this sense of frustration that rowers of boats always row backwards.  I.e., they can&#39;t see where they&#39;re going!  Hence &quot;back ceaseless into the past&quot;.  Going backwards in time.  Or is it that time&#39;s current is moving forward, and we&#39;re rowing against it?  Narrative as an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116657577472914262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116657577472914262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166575740000#c116657577472914262' 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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116616020013995535</id><published>2006-12-15T00:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-15T00:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Narrative, necessity, and &#39;neat and tidy&#39; endings...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Narrative, necessity, and &#39;neat and tidy&#39; endings.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When I was indoctrinated, back in high school, I remember being forced to read The Great Gatsby, during which I was half asleep half the time. I&#39;ve since come to appreciate is as a kind of standard by which to judge all other books. (Fitzgerald hated being in class, by the way, as he related in This Side of Paradise. I was honoring his</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116616020013995535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116616020013995535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166160180000#c116616020013995535' title=''/><author><name>Paraphrene</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09477105221927802459</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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2057716381"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116612291160072429</id><published>2006-12-14T14:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T14:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>But what&#39;s wrong w/ having a narrative that &quot;knits...</title><summary type='text'>But what&#39;s wrong w/ having a narrative that &quot;knits up all the threads into a tapestry&quot;?  Beth implies this particular narrative technique is somehow politically conservative (e.g., &quot;&#39;why I&#39;m sure G-d is tking care of me&#39;&quot; or that &#39;it was obviously meant to be.&#39; Politicos do it to justify occupation of other nations. It&#39;s the art of pruning a tree to one deliberate central stem pointing toward </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116612291160072429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116612291160072429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166122860000#c116612291160072429' title=''/><author><name>Rocco DiStreitlmahn</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05401952796335386301</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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522616634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116611077802102071</id><published>2006-12-14T10:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T10:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The system doesn&#39;t enable me to edit comments. On ...</title><summary type='text'>The system doesn&#39;t enable me to edit comments. On the other hand, where is Kevin Young?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116611077802102071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116611077802102071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166110740000#c116611077802102071' 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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116610437342164711</id><published>2006-12-14T08:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T08:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I just woke up the rest of the way and realiz...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I just woke up the rest of the way and realized I typed &quot;Kevin Young&quot; when I meant &quot;Kevin Goodan.&quot; Not your job to fix my mistakes, but IF you have a moment before you enable the comment...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beth</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116610437342164711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116610437342164711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166104320000#c116610437342164711' title=''/><author><name>Beth Kanell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08108922407270772577</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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1536942640"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116610421461845176</id><published>2006-12-14T08:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-14T08:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Narrative, necessity, and &quot;neat and tidy&quot; endings:...</title><summary type='text'>Narrative, necessity, and &quot;neat and tidy&quot; endings: Last night Galway Kinnell opined that poetry is better with less narrative, and offered to extend that to &quot;all writing&quot; (see kingdombks.blogspot.com). Seems to me what you&#39;re saying about The Dying Gaul, though, is that narrative turns away from reality, to a convenient fiction that knits up all the threads into a tapestry. People do this when </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116610421461845176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116609736384416256/comments/default/116610421461845176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html?showComment=1166104200000#c116610421461845176' title=''/><author><name>Beth Kanell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08108922407270772577</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/2006/12/one-of-my-kids-was-in-school-play-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116609736384416256' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116609736384416256' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1536942640"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2006"/></entry></feed>