<?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.post112321339803928313..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/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/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>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112397374623140397</id><published>2005-08-13T18:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-13T18:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, my &quot;thought&quot; has caused a lot of anguish e...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, my &quot;thought&quot; has caused a lot of anguish even for old friends over the years.  Imagine me, I have to live with it.  I&#39;m almost always in agony that my thinking almost forces me to diverge from others, and very rarely am I in the position of converging with anything that anybody else believes.  I appreciate being able to share a bit of here with you and Ron and others tough even not to be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112397374623140397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112397374623140397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123973700000#c112397374623140397' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112388391235385087</id><published>2005-08-12T17:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T17:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Malthusian Epitaxy...mood-spectrum-computationalis...</title><summary type='text'>Malthusian Epitaxy...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;mood-spectrum-computationalism=&lt;BR/&gt;Culture/Mask {word/action} dyads&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mount Toba = Mouth Toba&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Scientists have discovered&lt;BR/&gt;the CMB is actually&lt;BR/&gt;out of tune.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112388391235385087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112388391235385087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123883880000#c112388391235385087' 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='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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112387389114971170</id><published>2005-08-12T15:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T15:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I find much of Baraka&#39;s work problematic for reaso...</title><summary type='text'>I find much of Baraka&#39;s work problematic for reasons that have already been stated. I won&#39;t repeat what&#39;s already been said. I do, however, have to ask Mr. Faville how he can claim that &quot;African Americans don&#39;t really share any issues with Arabs, except in their fantasies.&quot; How do you know this? Are you an African American? What exactly do you know about our fantasies? I don&#39;t pretend to speak </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112387389114971170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112387389114971170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123873860000#c112387389114971170' title=''/><author><name>Thin Black Duke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02842238481549571107</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1279472847"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112386450523240760</id><published>2005-08-12T12:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T12:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I really don&#39;t see Wodehouse as Sadean. See what y...</title><summary type='text'>I really don&#39;t see Wodehouse as Sadean. See what you think of &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/mpeverett/selhist3.htm&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my take&lt;/A&gt; on this, Kirby. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bryan, you mentioned Kipling but I don&#39;t think I understand your implication in the context of this discussion - he was a great writer, and he had fucked up views that were conservative, imperialist, racialist in various ways,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112386450523240760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112386450523240760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123864500000#c112386450523240760' title=''/><author><name>Michael Peverett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17090710369630916194</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-566691718"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112368297272562616</id><published>2005-08-10T10:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-10T10:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dr. Pink, Wodehouse is the most Sadean writer of t...</title><summary type='text'>Dr. Pink, Wodehouse is the most Sadean writer of the 20th century -- even more Sadean than Bataille or Klossowski who can&#39;t hold a candle to him.  Who else would see the diabolical nature of shorting sheets?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112368297272562616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112368297272562616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123682940000#c112368297272562616' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 10, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112364121995475244</id><published>2005-08-09T22:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T22:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think it must be obvious that Baraka is seeking ...</title><summary type='text'>I think it must be obvious that Baraka is seeking a political expediency for &quot;difference&quot; and expropriating the handiest excuse he could find.  The dull-minded African American Left has identified with &quot;Muslims&quot; (or &quot;Black&quot; &quot;Muslims&quot;), and has publicly sided with the &quot;Palestinians&quot; since Arafat was learning to construct hand-made grenades.  It would always have been politically embarrassing for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112364121995475244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112364121995475244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123641180000#c112364121995475244' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112363911497391856</id><published>2005-08-09T21:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T21:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Good God, Kirby -- you must be used to chatting wi...</title><summary type='text'>Good God, Kirby -- you must be used to chatting with the very innocent.  That was the point.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112363911497391856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112363911497391856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123639080000#c112363911497391856' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112362771248539426</id><published>2005-08-09T18:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T18:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Distinction between what a character might say and...</title><summary type='text'>Distinction between what a character might say and what an author might think needs to be kept in relation to Wodehouse, please.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362771248539426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362771248539426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123627680000#c112362771248539426' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112362544858898129</id><published>2005-08-09T18:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T18:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You can go herehttp://www.barnesreview.org/ezrapou...</title><summary type='text'>You can go here&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.barnesreview.org/ezrapound.htm&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;to see what Pound had to say of Jews and to read the efforts of whoever it is who created the page to make certain distinctions.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362544858898129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362544858898129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123625400000#c112362544858898129' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112362001421537787</id><published>2005-08-09T16:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T16:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, and Wodehouse is immortal for much including ...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, and Wodehouse is immortal for much including this comment on the Bard&#39;s efforts.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;They sound well but don&#39;t mean a thing.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362001421537787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112362001421537787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123620000000#c112362001421537787' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112361441443782020</id><published>2005-08-09T15:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T15:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Devotees of modernist poetry generally don’t wish ...</title><summary type='text'>Devotees of modernist poetry generally don’t wish for poetry to be so easy to summarize, but Baraka’s poem ‘Somebody Blew Up America’ is relatively easy to summarize – that a financial establishment responsible for the slave trade, global wars and other antisocial acts can be held responsible for 9-11.  The inclusion of the Holocaust and the death of Rosa Luxembourg and the Rosenbergs to the list</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112361441443782020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112361441443782020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123614360000#c112361441443782020' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112361295974579922</id><published>2005-08-09T14:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T14:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>P.G. Wodehouse was charged with similar crimes for...</title><summary type='text'>P.G. Wodehouse was charged with similar crimes for making broadcasts from Germany.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The broadcasts are in a hard-to-find book entitled Wodehouse at War by Ian Sproat.  Most of his peers let him slide.  Even Orwell.  Wodehouse&#39;s broadcasts are really funny at times and he clearly wasn&#39;t a traitor.  The communists of England were looking for an upper class scapegoat.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wodehouse </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112361295974579922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112361295974579922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123612920000#c112361295974579922' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112360488465523195</id><published>2005-08-09T12:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T12:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And politically naive?  So he is a genius poet but...</title><summary type='text'>And politically naive?  So he is a genius poet but an idiot in most other respects?  No, he was after the Yid and says so and bought into all that and yes, even then, there was enough for him to find his way.  The excuse would serve -- after the fact -- to exonerate all those others who arranged the world so that those horrors could happen.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112360488465523195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112360488465523195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123604880000#c112360488465523195' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112360468108027918</id><published>2005-08-09T12:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T12:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, there are of course the broadcasts he made for...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, there are of course the broadcasts he made for the fascists materially aiding the extermination of thousands and, of course, there is his siding with the enemy.  We were at war of course.  Treason and so on.  The broadcasts are quite of a piece with the Hitlerian world view and he was fully competent and not coerced.  An agent of this evil and not a victim.  Given what happened to various </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112360468108027918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112360468108027918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123604640000#c112360468108027918' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112359926318099881</id><published>2005-08-09T10:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T10:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, if poor Ezra had been shot, he wouldn&#39;t have...</title><summary type='text'>Well, if poor Ezra had been shot, he wouldn&#39;t have been able to &quot;finish&quot; The Cantos.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We need witnesses.  Poets are good witnesses. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If I were a fascist, I might think Lorca &quot;deserved&quot; to be shot.  But if only he hadn&#39;t, what might he have written later?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112359926318099881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112359926318099881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123599240000#c112359926318099881' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112359338325505049</id><published>2005-08-09T09:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T09:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon,&quot;Should have been shot&quot;? Either you don&#39;t know...</title><summary type='text'>Lon,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Should have been shot&quot;? Either you don&#39;t know much about what Pound really did in Italy, or you just have a Sheriff of Nottingham view of justice. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The worst part of the Pound story isn&#39;t the idiotic treatment he received at the hands of the U.S. government (though, considering Nazim Hikmet&#39;s accomplishment, there&#39;s something to be said for the twentieth century epic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112359338325505049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112359338325505049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123593360000#c112359338325505049' title=''/><author><name>Bryan Newbury</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01859820289124152774</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-760652786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112358868978634986</id><published>2005-08-09T07:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-09T07:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace comes but once.  O know that.</title><summary type='text'>Grace comes but once.  O know that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112358868978634986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112358868978634986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123588680000#c112358868978634986' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 09, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112355451900958369</id><published>2005-08-08T22:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T22:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon:  grudginglyvery grudginglyI&#39;ll agree with you...</title><summary type='text'>Lon:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;grudgingly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;very grudgingly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ll agree with you here.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112355451900958369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112355451900958369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123554480000#c112355451900958369' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112355314918567927</id><published>2005-08-08T22:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T22:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually Pound isn&#39;t important.  Comes from being ...</title><summary type='text'>Actually Pound isn&#39;t important.  Comes from being interested in poetry instead of the poem.  Of course this enables most of what manages to get said and that&#39;s too bad.  Pound wrote some real poems.  The poems are much more interesting than he will ever be precisely because somehow these good poems escape the tyranny of Ezra Pound and his boring and simple minded hatreds.  He was in a cage and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112355314918567927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112355314918567927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123553100000#c112355314918567927' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112354980571313144</id><published>2005-08-08T21:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T21:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Will take the opportunity to quote Evan Hunter/Ed ...</title><summary type='text'>Will take the opportunity to quote Evan Hunter/Ed McBain (about a month dead) from one of his later 87th Precinct novels: &quot;Ethnic, the most obscene word in any language.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Apart from that there is no way imaginable to defend what Israel is doing to the palestinians. It&#39;s simply a drawn out genocide&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for Jones/Baraka&#39;s work I think I&#39;m with Curtis, although I haven&#39;t read all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112354980571313144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112354980571313144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123549800000#c112354980571313144' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112354787401948111</id><published>2005-08-08T20:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T20:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The question of Pound is appropos.  The crucial di...</title><summary type='text'>The question of Pound is appropos.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The crucial difference:  Whether or not, DESPITE ignorant or callous political indifference or outright aggression, one still is intelligent, perceptive, ingenious, and accomplished.  Jones/Baraka&#39;s poetry plunged into mediocrity at the precise point in time that he eschewed complexity and ambiguity in favor of political rigidity and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112354787401948111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112354787401948111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123547820000#c112354787401948111' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112353762175597808</id><published>2005-08-08T17:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T17:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding &quot;Somebody Blew Up The World&quot; I think Mr....</title><summary type='text'>Regarding &quot;Somebody Blew Up The World&quot; I think Mr. Glassman is allowing emotion to color his reading. The statement about the Reichstag fire refers back to &lt;I&gt;anti-Nazi&lt;/I&gt; portions of the poem. (I don&#39;t have a copy on me, which prevents direct quotation, but I&#39;ve read it and seen it performed a number of times.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s hardly a group that doesn&#39;t get taken to task in the poem, at least</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112353762175597808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112353762175597808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123537620000#c112353762175597808' title=''/><author><name>Bryan Newbury</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01859820289124152774</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-760652786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112353375702232365</id><published>2005-08-08T16:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T16:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ll join the Anti-Barakas.  Really, who needs tha...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ll join the Anti-Barakas.  Really, who needs that simple minded poisonous crap?  Oh, I know.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112353375702232365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112353375702232365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123533720000#c112353375702232365' 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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112352714058025059</id><published>2005-08-08T14:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T14:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In response to Steven Waling, your comparision of ...</title><summary type='text'>In response to Steven Waling, your comparision of Baraka to Pound or Eliot or anyone else misses the point. Which is that any antisemitic remark in a serious poetic context, by whoever it is, is offensive-- and shouldn&#39;t be glossed over because of that individual&#39;s presence in a canon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And to Noah, who says anti-Israel is not anti-Jewish-- come on, pal.&lt;BR/&gt;The stereotype in that section</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112352714058025059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112352714058025059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123527120000#c112352714058025059' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112352335474842852</id><published>2005-08-08T13:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-08T13:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sounds like a fascinating man at home with all his...</title><summary type='text'>Sounds like a fascinating man at home with all his contrdictions.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112352335474842852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112321339803928313/comments/default/112352335474842852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html?showComment=1123523340000#c112352335474842852' title=''/><author><name>Valderbar</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08407313879110859433</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/2005/08/i-forget-have-forgotten-more-than-once.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112321339803928313' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112321339803928313' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1021171232"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 08, 2005"/></entry></feed>