<?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.post8251949110535852844..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/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2599868537962186155</id><published>2007-09-05T14:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T14:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Tucson Weekly has a nice review of Once this w...</title><summary type='text'>The Tucson Weekly has a nice &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Cinema/Content?oid=oid%3A99791&amp;title=Once&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/A&gt; of &lt;I&gt;Once&lt;/I&gt; this week as well.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/2599868537962186155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/2599868537962186155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1189018260000#c2599868537962186155' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4728772987526606857</id><published>2007-09-05T03:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T03:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As an aside, &quot;Sun Green&quot; is the main character of ...</title><summary type='text'>As an aside, &quot;Sun Green&quot; is the main character of Neil Young&#39;s album/novel &quot;Greendale.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the comments on Jarmusch, whose work is so wonderfully parsimonious throughout.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/4728772987526606857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/4728772987526606857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188975840000#c4728772987526606857' title=''/><author><name>Andrew Shields</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3606/2093/1600/andrew%20shields2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1602067710"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1151807017619968233</id><published>2007-09-04T23:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T23:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry to be overly technical here Ron, but since y...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry to be overly technical here Ron, but since you once assiduously (and poetically) reported more or less precisely on trash on or about a Tenderloin street, allow me to point out that I believe that while the Lolita character in &lt;I&gt;Broken Flowers &lt;/I&gt; talks on two phones while nude, only one is a cell.  The other is more exactly referred to as a portable.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1151807017619968233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1151807017619968233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188964560000#c1151807017619968233' 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/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1897075262742448309</id><published>2007-09-04T22:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T22:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Funnily enough, while I was researching for my hon...</title><summary type='text'>Funnily enough, while I was researching for my honours thesis last year, I came across Armantrout&#39;s line in The New Sentence and had one of those wonderful readerly scintillations where I was unsure whether I had misread something (and had unwittingly composed a great word-poem) or had read correctly and needed and had discovered a very curious sentence that needed a reread. At the time, because </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1897075262742448309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1897075262742448309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188960300000#c1897075262742448309' title=''/><author><name>astrid</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14221305604622833188</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/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-560995704"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9117577186840788635</id><published>2007-09-04T20:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T20:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There obviously isn&#39;t any correct single way to re...</title><summary type='text'>There obviously isn&#39;t any correct single way to read or apprehend a poem.  When I read Stephen Rodefer I expect to be jostled about in a big waterbed of complex waves and counterwaves.  When I read John Taggart I look for the precise little clicks of the heel (like a flamenco dancer doing turns).  Ashbery demands total submission--you have to be ready to go anywhere, feel anything.  Can Graham </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/9117577186840788635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/9117577186840788635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188953400000#c9117577186840788635' 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/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1258533946808221034</id><published>2007-09-04T17:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T17:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If constructing meaning from the fewest details is...</title><summary type='text'>If constructing meaning from the fewest details is &quot;the parsimony principle,&quot; what&#39;s the other end of the spectrum called?  The generosity principle?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When I read something -- particularly a poem -- I tend to incorporate and extrapolate as much detail as possible.  Surround the text with possibilities, sail on reverie in all directions.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do this because trying out all sorts of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1258533946808221034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/1258533946808221034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188941460000#c1258533946808221034' 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/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7972471500487950186</id><published>2007-09-04T11:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T11:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>They&#39;re listed for the 1991 global/episodic Night ...</title><summary type='text'>They&#39;re listed for the 1991 global/episodic &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/company/co0129104/&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Night on Earth&lt;/A&gt;, but I don&#39;t see them attached to any other Jarmusch features.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m pretty certain Jarmusch at least *heard about* Roussel in college.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/7972471500487950186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/7972471500487950186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188919500000#c7972471500487950186' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3937956517589581628</id><published>2007-09-04T11:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T11:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jordan,I can&#39;t find any references to Locus Solus ...</title><summary type='text'>Jordan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t find any references to Locus Solus &amp; don&#39;t have the DVD any more (it went back to a rental shop that also rents beach umbrellas &amp; boogie boards), but I do recall that the &quot;Special Thanks&quot; section at the end of the credits mentions Ron Padgett.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/3937956517589581628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/3937956517589581628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188918360000#c3937956517589581628' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9029846087624466822</id><published>2007-09-04T10:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T10:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Jarmusch movie is an interesting conceit.  I&#39;v...</title><summary type='text'>The Jarmusch movie is an interesting conceit.  I&#39;ve never appreciated Bill Murray the way some people do--I find his deadpan delivery glib and cocky.  The other idea--a high school reunion of surprises and embarrassment with former lovers--is another useful trick.  Put them together and what do you get?  You almost don&#39;t need good writing, all you have to do is put the actors together and let the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/9029846087624466822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/9029846087624466822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188917340000#c9029846087624466822' 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/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951129915051324819</id><published>2007-09-04T10:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T10:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So, is Jarmusch&#39;s production company still named L...</title><summary type='text'>So, is Jarmusch&#39;s production company still named Locus Solus?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/5951129915051324819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8251949110535852844/comments/default/5951129915051324819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html?showComment=1188917160000#c5951129915051324819' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-there-any-dynamic-in-construction-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8251949110535852844' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8251949110535852844' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2007"/></entry></feed>