<?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.post4845660057728813368..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/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.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>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1814980682720841419</id><published>2008-11-17T19:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T19:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I came to Theroux late.  I&#39;ve only read four of hi...</title><summary type='text'>I came to Theroux late.  I&#39;ve only read four of his travel books, and almost none of the fiction--it seemed like reading his fictions after all that reportage would be an anti-climax.  How much of yourself can your pour into a single book?  We have Salinger, Ellison, Harper Lee, Stevens&#39;s Harmonium, for instance.  Would it really matter if Salinger had written another 30 books?   What if Stevens </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/1814980682720841419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/1814980682720841419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226968860000#c1814980682720841419' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8099041774494412208</id><published>2008-11-17T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T15:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, the easisest way to counter a sentence lik...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, the easisest way to counter a sentence like&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The chances of even a great poet turning out 800 pages of admirable work in a lifetime (or, say, over a 40 year span) are nil.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is simply to say&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Chances of writing, poetry, art, or even consciousness of being anything in most cases other than a squiggly line in an infinite sea of grieving ink in not only nil, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8099041774494412208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8099041774494412208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226952480000#c8099041774494412208' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7180854265856806905</id><published>2008-11-17T12:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T12:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for that Curtis. Point taken (and I frankly...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for that Curtis. Point taken (and I frankly haven&#39;t read enough of either poet to argue it). I just started the latest Theroux, though, and it reads very well so far (to me that is). Perhaps because he has approached the very idea of repetition (with all its inherent dangers) head-on, setting out to cover roughly the same ground he traveled 33 years ago.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/7180854265856806905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/7180854265856806905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226943660000#c7180854265856806905' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5133722483863978410</id><published>2008-11-17T10:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T10:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark:I think audacity has something to do with it....</title><summary type='text'>Mark:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think audacity has something to do with it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Careerists who pump out a book every two or three years for two or three decades usually end up publishing a lot of excelsior.  I think that&#39;s true in both cases here.  The chances of even a great poet turning out 800 pages of admirable work in a lifetime (or, say, over a 40 year span) are nil.  That&#39;s obvious even with such </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/5133722483863978410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/5133722483863978410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226935320000#c5133722483863978410' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8246809007778765968</id><published>2008-11-17T04:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T04:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Instead of asking for qualifications, why no...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Instead of asking for qualifications, why not tell me you disagree, and why?&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It isn&amp;#39;t so much that I disagree outright Curtis. In fact, I agree that the obsessions/mental conditions necessary for creative writing cannot be taught (though other things certainly can). But I am sceptical about brusque certainties such as the following:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;quot;They&amp;#39;re [Graham &amp;amp</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8246809007778765968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8246809007778765968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226915700000#c8246809007778765968' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2335694935747608374</id><published>2008-11-17T01:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T01:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>drewwerdm (is) spellingmeaning is a spellmeen mean...</title><summary type='text'>drew&lt;BR/&gt;werd&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;m (is) spelling&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;meaning is a spell&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;meen means fish&lt;BR/&gt;taxis means move&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the ancient word for king&lt;BR/&gt;comes from protogerman&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cyning&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;signing&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;sign&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;signus&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;es-ignus&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;fatus ignis&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;agni or naga, ne?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i=f&lt;BR/&gt;f-open hand&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or parasite&lt;BR/&gt;or job&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a dish, a beggar,&lt;BR/&gt;a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/2335694935747608374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/2335694935747608374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226904900000#c2335694935747608374' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6656312822866331231</id><published>2008-11-16T22:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T22:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Self-evident statements need no qualification.  &quot;T...</title><summary type='text'>Self-evident statements need no qualification.  &quot;The sun will come up in the morning.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Opinions need no qualification.  That&#39;s why we call them opinions.  Get it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would never make a claim to infallibility about something as vague and ambiguous as judging art.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yvor Winters was as officious and peremptory and frequently as unconvincing as any critic I&#39;ve ever read.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6656312822866331231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6656312822866331231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226892660000#c6656312822866331231' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3199419139981188555</id><published>2008-11-16T18:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T18:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I could tell from the first &quot;classic&quot; open...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I could tell from the first &quot;classic&quot; opening: &quot;Mark: You make the classic mistake of thinking...&quot; that you were probably going to do exactly what you accused me of doing. I like the Neil Simon anecdote BTW (made me smile). But that&#39;s about a rhetorical question, which is a different matter entirely. Of COURSE you are entitled to your opinion, as I am entitled to mine. That does go </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3199419139981188555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3199419139981188555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226877300000#c3199419139981188555' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8571885452796083563</id><published>2008-11-15T19:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T19:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark:  You make the classic mistake of thinking th...</title><summary type='text'>Mark:  You make the classic mistake of thinking that it must be necessary to point out, redundantly, every time, that what a writer, or a speaker, says, does indeed represent that speaker&#39;s &quot;opinion&quot; and that speaker&#39;s opinion only.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Neil Simon has a funny scene in which two men are arguing in an apartment.  &quot;Did you just say what I think you said?&quot; blurts one.  &quot;I don&#39;t see anyone else</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8571885452796083563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8571885452796083563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226794140000#c8571885452796083563' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7830360552763181827</id><published>2008-11-15T13:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T13:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding the MFA experience:Near the end of my fi...</title><summary type='text'>Regarding the MFA experience:&lt;BR/&gt;Near the end of my first year at Iowa, George Starbuck not only allowed me to but challenged me/&lt;BR/&gt;to change.  The long result of that has been: change is not a process I fear.  This, of course, does not mean that when I choose to engage a change I am choosing to do something which is in itself superior to what I had been doing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/7830360552763181827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/7830360552763181827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226772060000#c7830360552763181827' title=''/><author><name>brian a j s</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6031046336097966422</id><published>2008-11-14T16:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T16:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A sulfur is a butterfly.</title><summary type='text'>A sulfur is a butterfly.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6031046336097966422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6031046336097966422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226699940000#c6031046336097966422' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-867727005"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3057276052336004000</id><published>2008-11-14T16:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T16:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;This is why serious, committed writers like Jorie...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;This is why serious, committed writers like Jorie Graham and Mary Oliver fail to convince.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You seem to have left out a rather important word there (hint: it&#39;s a personal pronoun) just before that premature period. Its absence is, I think, noteworthy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3057276052336004000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3057276052336004000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226699880000#c3057276052336004000' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6248546065936174307</id><published>2008-11-14T15:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T15:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Other really good Eshleman books from Black Widow ...</title><summary type='text'>Other really good Eshleman books from Black Widow Press are &lt;I&gt;Alchemist with One Eye on Fire&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Archaic Design&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I gotta admit that Amazon is probably the best place to get these and other Black Widow Press books, not yr local bookstore, Small Press Distribution (SPD), or the Black Widow website itself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Black Widow doesn&#39;t use SPD and there isn&#39;t a bookstore in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6248546065936174307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/6248546065936174307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226694000000#c6248546065936174307' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3791223998778996959</id><published>2008-11-14T14:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T14:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sure Curtis, a book,or what about a simple two wor...</title><summary type='text'>Sure Curtis, a book,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or what about a simple two word&lt;BR/&gt;mantra whose meaning is deeper than its historical surface&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Grub Street&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3791223998778996959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/3791223998778996959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226689860000#c3791223998778996959' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4913459748983889374</id><published>2008-11-14T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T11:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>awright ed!!:)haa! brilliant.credentialists!amazin...</title><summary type='text'>awright ed!!&lt;BR/&gt;:)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;haa! brilliant.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;credentialists!&lt;BR/&gt;amazing!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I really like the Bernard Bador book and it seems like it is almost as unknown as something like Claude Pelieu..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4913459748983889374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4913459748983889374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226680860000#c4913459748983889374' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4944960708535043243</id><published>2008-11-14T11:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T11:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&amp;#39;s fine to criticize present-day publishing,...</title><summary type='text'>It&amp;#39;s fine to criticize present-day publishing, but good to remember that those NAMES--i.e., Farrar Straus or Macmillan--did indeed have distinguished histories of contribution.  It&amp;#39;s when the marketing departments were taken over by corporate MBA&amp;#39;s and substance was transformed into hype, that the trouble began.  The &amp;quot;echo&amp;quot; of quality and taste that hangs in the air of these</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4944960708535043243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4944960708535043243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226679840000#c4944960708535043243' 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/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8996023402162149039</id><published>2008-11-14T08:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T08:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;credentialists&quot;not&#39;existentialists&#39;some &quot;one&quot; edi...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;credentialists&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;not&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&#39;existentialists&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;some &quot;one&quot; edited and, no need for the quotes</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8996023402162149039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/8996023402162149039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226670960000#c8996023402162149039' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2329488683214443382</id><published>2008-11-14T08:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T08:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The disingenuity of declaring that students spend ...</title><summary type='text'>The disingenuity of declaring that students spend too much time &quot;defending&quot; their work...well.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What can a critic say to that Ron!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ahem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What I can say after reading some of his marvelous poems is that he is a decadent, post Darwinian cum Freudian who loves to read his own prose so much that he writes decent prose.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Okay.  Then what?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s the same old </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/2329488683214443382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/2329488683214443382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226670480000#c2329488683214443382' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5403921650290498729</id><published>2008-11-14T06:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T06:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Clayton Eshleman:November 20: A program on César V...</title><summary type='text'>Clayton Eshleman:&lt;BR/&gt;November 20: A program on César Vallejo at Georgetown University,Washington DC&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this is &quot;business&quot; for Clayton... and&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I NEVER go into a University   (went once  ... and it was all-a-gaggle of &#39;existentialists&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;though it wld be neat to &lt;BR/&gt; (..)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and he cld sign my copies of The Gull Wall&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and  Under World Arrest</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/5403921650290498729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/5403921650290498729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226662680000#c5403921650290498729' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4884365425613529992</id><published>2008-11-14T04:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T04:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>did you correspond w Cid?and  Clayton will be read...</title><summary type='text'>did you correspond w Cid?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and  Clayton will be reading here (in D.C.  at I think Georgetown U  or Folger &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he g o e s wayyyyy back with Cid...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I should ,maybe, drop-in on his &#39;gig&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Jim Koller):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://edbaker.maikosoft.com/pictures/edbaker_jimkoller.jpg&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4884365425613529992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4845660057728813368/comments/default/4884365425613529992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html?showComment=1226653200000#c4884365425613529992' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-thrust-on-tuesday-was-not-that-words.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4845660057728813368' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4845660057728813368' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry></feed>