<?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.post112041953874578600..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/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.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>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112073767384902707</id><published>2005-07-07T08:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-07T08:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>We School of Quietude men tend to be better lookin...</title><summary type='text'>We School of Quietude men tend to be better looking than the post avants.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112073767384902707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112073767384902707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120737660000#c112073767384902707' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 07, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112070274194152386</id><published>2005-07-06T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-06T22:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Geoffrey Brock looks like the next Commanding Gene...</title><summary type='text'>Geoffrey Brock looks like the next Commanding General of the U.S. Marine Corps.  Grim determination and the conviction to do good at any cost.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112070274194152386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112070274194152386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120702740000#c112070274194152386' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112067032831596889</id><published>2005-07-06T13:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-06T13:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lyle:  Do you ever get these weird spam e.mails th...</title><summary type='text'>Lyle:  Do you ever get these weird spam e.mails that contain &quot;random language&quot; sequences?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If not, the next time I get one, I&#39;ll post.  They&#39;re very &quot;ingenious&quot; sounding.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Almost like very good &quot;automatic&quot; writing!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112067032831596889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112067032831596889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120670280000#c112067032831596889' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112061579771912795</id><published>2005-07-05T22:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T22:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>See, the fun part, Lyle, is that now you get to tr...</title><summary type='text'>See, the fun part, Lyle, is that now you get to try &amp; prove that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112061579771912795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112061579771912795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120615740000#c112061579771912795' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112060872167311872</id><published>2005-07-05T20:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T20:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Demonstrating that a ten year old could write bet...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Demonstrating that a ten year old could write better than some work offered by the School of Quietude [sic]...&quot; Interesting.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;habernasty perciferous wonk dryblabbery in exfunctious terrificum for backdwaddled underness plactified. From mere splayance&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;demonstrating that an amoeba could write better that some work offered by the &quot;&#39;&quot;Language&quot; &quot;School&quot; &quot;of&quot; &quot;Poetry&quot;&#39;&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112060872167311872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112060872167311872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120608720000#c112060872167311872' title=''/><author><name>Lyle Daggett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1880267297"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112058480345396372</id><published>2005-07-05T13:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T13:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>incidence breeds inconfidence.quietude breeds quie...</title><summary type='text'>incidence breeds inconfidence.&lt;BR/&gt;quietude breeds quiet dudes.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112058480345396372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112058480345396372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120584780000#c112058480345396372' title=''/><author><name>Carton Tragedy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06542989177956491967</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1629265714"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112058029638370335</id><published>2005-07-05T12:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T12:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I&#39;ll have to think up some witty connection to yo...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I&#39;ll have to think up some witty connection to yoke it to my argument. Clickety-clack.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But really this is only an example of bad SOQ poetry or bad poetry in general.  Post Avant poems engage in the same.  The &quot;witty&quot; connection is just allowed to be something other than the &quot;witty&quot; connections endorsed by Formalists and so on.  If equally unnecessary to isness it&#39;s all equally bad </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112058029638370335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112058029638370335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120580280000#c112058029638370335' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112057962583500446</id><published>2005-07-05T12:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T12:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ABBA.  Nicht wahr?I am, whilom, a School of Quietu...</title><summary type='text'>ABBA.  Nicht wahr?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am, whilom, a School of Quietude man myself and are you going soft on us? I hope the hell not.  We’re not doing so well and we need all the help we can get.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For example you might mention that the second poem resembles “The Kitchen Prayer” of late memory -- a framed prayer which I as a young School of Quietude poet hung in the galley area of Mr. Stefanic’s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057962583500446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057962583500446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120579620000#c112057962583500446' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112057566500620431</id><published>2005-07-05T11:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T11:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Quietude invites bad performance because it promis...</title><summary type='text'>Quietude invites bad performance because it promises that if you can &quot;fill in the blanks&quot; with enough wit and integration, it will then be a poem, maybe even a good one.  But that&#39;s not what &quot;creative writing&quot; is.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s a searching, finding, forcing, experimenting.  And the formal part of writing (appropriate form) is part of what you&#39;re searching for.  Poets &quot;discovered&quot; or &quot;invented&quot; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057566500620431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057566500620431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120575660000#c112057566500620431' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112057502349305953</id><published>2005-07-05T10:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T10:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057502349305953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057502349305953'/><author><name>C.W.</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03815177631772718237</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-795744874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112057325999289099</id><published>2005-07-05T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T10:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,What&#39;m I missing? Isn&#39;t the rhyme scheme A-B-B...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What&#39;m I missing? Isn&#39;t the rhyme scheme A-B-B-A?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057325999289099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112057325999289099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120573200000#c112057325999289099' title=''/><author><name>Stuart Greenhouse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14745769697781412955</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1582930904"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112056455260850757</id><published>2005-07-05T07:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T07:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>He&#39;s also Umberto Eco&#39;s new translatorinto English...</title><summary type='text'>He&#39;s also Umberto Eco&#39;s &lt;BR/&gt;new translator&lt;BR/&gt;into English&lt;BR/&gt;(beginning with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana)&lt;BR/&gt;and of Robert Calasso&#39;s K</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112056455260850757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112041953874578600/comments/default/112056455260850757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html?showComment=1120564500000#c112056455260850757' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/2005/07/last-wednesday-when-i-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112041953874578600' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112041953874578600' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 05, 2005"/></entry></feed>