<?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.post1288632799588207033..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/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/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>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7453566171197428831</id><published>2007-09-28T08:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T08:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops. The joke&#39;s on me.</title><summary type='text'>Oops. The joke&#39;s on me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7453566171197428831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7453566171197428831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190983200000#c7453566171197428831' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1727572065094294751</id><published>2007-09-28T08:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T08:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stealing and tinkering with the works of others ch...</title><summary type='text'>Stealing and tinkering with the works of others cheapens the process of writing, breaks down the honor of individual consciousness, and makes writing a form of computer programming. It&#39;s dull, and unworthy of attention.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/1727572065094294751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/1727572065094294751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190981040000#c1727572065094294751' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6131249587323382715</id><published>2007-09-28T00:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T00:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Scott hits it very nearly on the head.  I ...</title><summary type='text'>I think Scott hits it very nearly on the head.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I should point out that we&#39;re not talking about collage, or sculpture, or vispo here.  We talking specifically about recorded (written) speech or composition.  The taking of previously recorded or written (printed) language, which was &quot;composed&quot; or done by another, and appropriating it for purposes other than that for which it was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/6131249587323382715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/6131249587323382715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190953260000#c6131249587323382715' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7298409626104172010</id><published>2007-09-27T10:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T10:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nothing wrong with appropriation. Poets shouldn&#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Nothing wrong with appropriation. Poets shouldn&#39;t discard any tool available to them. My problem is with the claims being made for what the appropriation means. To say that the process, method, procedure, whatever, by which these poems are made is &quot;fascinating&quot; seems naive at best. The results very well could be fascinating, but, again, no one&#39;s going out of the way to say as much. There&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7298409626104172010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7298409626104172010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190902140000#c7298409626104172010' title=''/><author><name>Scott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02539984048028999777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1094/881506443_604b88df16_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-268375263"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7729221960689530184</id><published>2007-09-26T09:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-26T09:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis--No one accuses you of ignorance. I think t...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No one accuses you of ignorance. I think the trouble here is simple: you don&#39;t appreciate what others appreciate, and instead of accepting that you are, in fact, a limited human being, as we all are, with limited sensibilities, you condemn what you don&#39;t appreciate. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s all *I* mean when I say you are missing out on a lot: i.e. the fact that other people&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7729221960689530184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7729221960689530184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190813100000#c7729221960689530184' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2055022689088339458</id><published>2007-09-26T07:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-26T07:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>a) So, I wonder, to follow your analogy, Curtis, w...</title><summary type='text'>a) So, I wonder, to follow your analogy, Curtis, what about masturbation  when having sex with someone else? Why would masturbation be excluded from &quot;fucking&quot;? And what is the essential difference, if the result is the same? (Isn&#39;t it a difference in process, then?)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;b) Again, can you please define what&#39;s &quot;an organic production of your own mind&quot;? If linguistic expression (literary or not)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2055022689088339458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2055022689088339458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190805480000#c2055022689088339458' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6362041163152358851</id><published>2007-09-25T17:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T17:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No.Your presupposition is that I either haven&#39;t re...</title><summary type='text'>No.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your presupposition is that I either haven&#39;t read any of this stuff, or wouldn&#39;t understand its modus if I did.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Au contraire.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Can&#39;t see&quot; --not at all.  I think what you mean, or should say, is &quot;can&#39;t appreciate it.&quot;  That would be true.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If I, for instance, took poems by James Wright, David Gascoyne, Paul Blackburn and Marianne Moore, selected my </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/6362041163152358851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/6362041163152358851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190755800000#c6362041163152358851' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7356138204150883175</id><published>2007-09-25T13:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T13:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What on earth is &quot;genuine thinking&quot;? Anyone who ha...</title><summary type='text'>What on earth is &quot;genuine thinking&quot;? Anyone who has read Shakespeare thoroughly will remember how there are whole phrases he uses in slightly different ways in different plays, almost cut and pasting and sampling himself and most probably those in his milieu, let alone the popular way of talking of his time.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No one is saying, I think, that sampling and cut and pasting are &quot;substitutes&quot; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7356138204150883175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7356138204150883175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190741280000#c7356138204150883175' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-844211743281067322</id><published>2007-09-25T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T11:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Originality&quot; which is constructed from pre-existi...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Originality&quot; which is constructed from pre-existing texts and sources seems a poor substitute for genuine thinking, and formal investigation. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Agreed. But originality is certainly NOT the highest virtue in a work of what we tend to call art.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A work which is constructed from pre-existing texts and sources may very well REQUIRE genuine thinking, and formal investigation. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/844211743281067322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/844211743281067322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190734320000#c844211743281067322' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-137141974132928637</id><published>2007-09-25T09:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T09:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Originality&quot; which is constructed from pre-existi...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Originality&quot; which is constructed from pre-existing texts and sources seems a poor substitute for genuine thinking, and formal investigation.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most writers begin by imitating.  That&#39;s fine and may extend through a whole career.  Derivative writing is part of what we describe when we talk about &quot;schools&quot; or &quot;movements&quot;--favorite children of Ron&#39;s.  Ashbery spawned a whole generation of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/137141974132928637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/137141974132928637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190728680000#c137141974132928637' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2971247769898539113</id><published>2007-09-24T17:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T17:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If I may add something in, I&#39;d say that &quot;how the W...</title><summary type='text'>If I may add something in, I&#39;d say that &quot;how the Writer creates the work&quot; does ultimately matter in &quot;how the Work affects the reader&quot;. This is, of course, not exclusive of poetry but of all art forms.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think many artistic expressions require a knowledge of how the Work is created in order to, if not &quot;enjoy&quot; it, at least try to &quot;understand&quot; it better.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On a sidenote, I think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2971247769898539113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2971247769898539113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190670120000#c2971247769898539113' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03953877785664466289</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1208458607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7914074307041766929</id><published>2007-09-23T19:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T19:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I find it silly that it took over a dozen posts fo...</title><summary type='text'>I find it silly that it took over a dozen posts for someone to mention Eliot.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whatever this kind of poetry is, it&#39;s a hell of a lot more interesting than retyping the New York Times.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; - Why distinguish between literary language and non-literary?  -  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Because there&#39;s a difference between the two, and that difference matters.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s also a constraint, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7914074307041766929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7914074307041766929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190588580000#c7914074307041766929' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11432287890097060316</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1269047305"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5104713041056938624</id><published>2007-09-22T07:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T07:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>EVERY OTHER YESTERDAY      -for david gianniniretu...</title><summary type='text'>EVERY OTHER YESTERDAY&lt;BR/&gt;      -for david giannini&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;returning w firewood&lt;BR/&gt;to find&lt;BR/&gt;the note    &lt;BR/&gt;she left&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;on stove  coffee&lt;BR/&gt;linger ing scent&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;money-bag   gone&lt;BR/&gt;daughter away  son sleeping&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;from here  gaze  out&lt;BR/&gt;who is needing another&lt;BR/&gt;  &#39;Travel Diary?&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t remember&lt;BR/&gt;the one line pissed her...&lt;BR/&gt;yet she remembers [...]&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5104713041056938624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5104713041056938624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190460660000#c5104713041056938624' title=''/><author><name>Ed</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8228786490987961687</id><published>2007-09-22T00:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T00:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t see anyone here advocating &quot;post-authorshi...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t see anyone here advocating &quot;post-authorship&quot;, whatever that might be. I just see some people &quot;authoring&quot; one way, some another. Let me quote from Mitchell Whitelaw, *Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life*: &quot;New media art self-consciously reworks technology into culture, and rereads technology as culture. What&#39;s more, it does so in a concrete, applied way; it manipulates the technology </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8228786490987961687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8228786490987961687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190434380000#c8228786490987961687' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7644797236190445496</id><published>2007-09-21T22:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T22:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I agree with you but for accuracy’s sake i...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I agree with you but for accuracy’s sake it’s arguably the modernists that got us into this mess, with Eliot’s pilfered lines in the Waste Land and Pound’s in The Cantos.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Post-authorship is glorified pre-Humanism, and it’s no accident that it is being presented here as a Buddhist virtue.  Poetry began again when the ‘Author’ took over from the nameless clergy in the Renaissance, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7644797236190445496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7644797236190445496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190426640000#c7644797236190445496' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5099289918181269803</id><published>2007-09-21T21:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T21:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I really need to proof read my comments before pos...</title><summary type='text'>I really need to proof read my comments before posting....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sorry about that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5099289918181269803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5099289918181269803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190426280000#c5099289918181269803' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3403807437455628147</id><published>2007-09-21T20:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T20:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>.</title><summary type='text'>.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/3403807437455628147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/3403807437455628147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190421300000#c3403807437455628147' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://a622.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_7d53087e7ae6bdc246fcc42f2064909d.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5012865955587080528</id><published>2007-09-21T19:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T19:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5012865955587080528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/5012865955587080528'/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://a622.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_7d53087e7ae6bdc246fcc42f2064909d.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8264543028992318393</id><published>2007-09-21T18:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T18:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d guess that some who knew the original work use...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d guess that some who knew the original work used by Jess Collins or Max Ernst (or Bruce Conner in his collages, including collage &#39;found footage&quot; movies) felt that the subsequent out of context uses disrespectful.  I know that people went nuts over Duchamp&#39;s urinal, bottle-drying rack, and snow shovel.  Peo0le probably poo-poohed Mac Law&#39;s appropriations too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Respect versus glib </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8264543028992318393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8264543028992318393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190415060000#c8264543028992318393' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7724354511081093743</id><published>2007-09-21T17:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T17:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>they have to grow these litarary menlike like fung...</title><summary type='text'>they have to grow these litarary men&lt;BR/&gt;like like fungal orchids in a carefully controlled environment, so as not to contaminate their sui generis mycelial exquisitries which hang like macrame&#39; beards from their transparent illuminated scrotum pods from which the only  careful and apposite originality in the universe isssuews from..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;let&#39;s say i have imported &lt;BR/&gt;certain aspects of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7724354511081093743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7724354511081093743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190409120000#c7724354511081093743' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7792518007558237029</id><published>2007-09-21T16:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T16:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Curtis: I was playing a bit, I didn&#39;t think y...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Curtis: I was playing a bit, I didn&#39;t think you meant decadence as any kind of serious negative. I was seriously thrilled to be called decadent. It just sounds, so, decadent! (And for a middle class guy like me, that&#39;s really something). I should tell you that I ALWAYS provide citations to EVERYTHING I sample,and though while I do try to be as fully aware as possible &quot;of the implications and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7792518007558237029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7792518007558237029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190407740000#c7792518007558237029' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7959615000841016103</id><published>2007-09-21T14:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T14:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think there&#39;s a difference between what Johnson ...</title><summary type='text'>I think there&#39;s a difference between what Johnson habitually did--in much of his work--and what the Giannini thing implies/or demonstrates.  In the Notes section to his long poem The Book of the Green Man [New York: Norton, 1967], Johnson quotes Thoreau &quot;Decayed literature makes the richest of all soils...a certain fertility, an Ohio soil, as if they were making a humus for new literatures to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7959615000841016103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/7959615000841016103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190400480000#c7959615000841016103' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2459167939431068695</id><published>2007-09-21T13:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T13:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is the first time I&#39;ve ever been accused of o...</title><summary type='text'>This is the first time I&#39;ve ever been accused of or credited with &quot;the ultimate decadence&quot;. Thank you very much, Curtis. You&#39;ve made my day. At least til lunchtime, by which time I&#39;m guessing an even more ultimate decadence will have come along ...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2459167939431068695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2459167939431068695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190397300000#c2459167939431068695' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8585717359212662850</id><published>2007-09-21T13:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T13:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Combining existing texts does make something new. ...</title><summary type='text'>Combining existing texts does make something new.  As does erasing parts of existing ones (Ronald Johnson) or via some pre-determined but random process picking words out of existing texts (Mac Low, for example).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The great Jess Collins in a few of his works actually did fit together pieces of different jig saw puzzles.  The resulting art work is great, I think.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Combining or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8585717359212662850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/8585717359212662850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190396040000#c8585717359212662850' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2199484637850349182</id><published>2007-09-21T10:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T10:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There is an inherent irony in the &quot;de-personalizat...</title><summary type='text'>There is an inherent irony in the &quot;de-personalization&quot; of the text.  The Modernists&#39; Poundian view of the author standing beside his work is repudiated in the interests of a socialistic &quot;shared&quot; authorship of dubious anonymity, or a mechanistic automatic composer.  But readers will always speculate about identity, to the degree that the text interests them.  The ultimate use of biography (and all</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2199484637850349182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1288632799588207033/comments/default/2199484637850349182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html?showComment=1190384760000#c2199484637850349182' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/09/david-giannini-responds-to-my-blog-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1288632799588207033' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1288632799588207033' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2007"/></entry></feed>