<?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.post113302123911930465..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/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.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-113375473430730459</id><published>2005-12-04T22:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-04T22:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Pencilled myself into beauty.&quot;I&#39;m really quite je...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Pencilled myself into beauty.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m really quite jealous of a bank teller getting famous you know. It&#39;s almost as bad as that damn insurance salesman Stevens being considered a literary Great. More importantly though I&#39;m quite honestly opposed to cliche in poetry.  It REALLY bothers me.  Argh.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Someone ought to give her a heads up on that sort of thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pencilled into </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113375473430730459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113375473430730459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133754720000#c113375473430730459' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113336958224050917</id><published>2005-11-30T11:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-30T11:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Having dabbled in letterpress stuff, this question...</title><summary type='text'>Having dabbled in letterpress stuff, this question is really great. I think the key thing, which Curtis alludes to, is the fact that there isn&#39;t really a Platonic &quot;single&quot;, &quot;double&quot; or &quot;triple&quot; spacing. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Typewriters (and computers) may have these settings, but when it comes to actually laying type down on the page... in particular, I remember having access to a huge variety of metal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113336958224050917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113336958224050917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133369580000#c113336958224050917' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113335624480929343</id><published>2005-11-30T08:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-30T08:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael, this is an interesting question vis-a-vis...</title><summary type='text'>Michael, this is an interesting question vis-a-vis the &quot;translation&quot; of typewriter lettering and spacing, and other, more streamlined kinds of print media.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Typewriters were constructed to have between three and five settings for the vertical spacing of lines:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) No space&lt;BR/&gt;2) One space&lt;BR/&gt;3) One and one half spaces&lt;BR/&gt;4) Two spaces&lt;BR/&gt;5) Three spaces&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some writers</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113335624480929343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113335624480929343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133356200000#c113335624480929343' 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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113328135586878084</id><published>2005-11-29T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-29T11:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael,The first instance of this I can think of ...</title><summary type='text'>Michael,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first instance of this I can think of this use of the line is &quot;Factors Influencing the Weather&quot; in Barrett Watten&#39;s &lt;I&gt; Opera -- Works&lt;/I&gt; which he originally wrote circa 1974, although I notice that this has turned into quatrains in the version printed in his collected early books, &lt;I&gt;Frame&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113328135586878084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113328135586878084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133281320000#c113328135586878084' 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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113327802654070742</id><published>2005-11-29T10:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-29T10:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear anonymous:I understand what you&#39;re getting at...</title><summary type='text'>Dear anonymous:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I understand what you&#39;re getting at, and I wouldn&#39;t argue with you on YOUR pretexts, but how about these?--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) Is it possible for an unimpaired human to write &quot;gibberish&quot;?  The 18th Century wits aside, psychologists tell us that the human brain is incapable of performing this feat.  I occasionally receive e.mails which contain &quot;gibberish&quot; word &quot;paragraphs&quot; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113327802654070742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113327802654070742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133278020000#c113327802654070742' 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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113327554818601481</id><published>2005-11-29T09:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-29T09:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This thing about having a space between each line ...</title><summary type='text'>This thing about having a space between each line (or, even better, between NEARLY every line) is what we all like to see suddenly. Lisa Samuels does it a lot too but I don&#39;t know where it started. Do you? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder if there is an influence from the early days of HTML when, as often as not, if you pasted verse into a document you ended up with a spurious space between each line. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113327554818601481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113327554818601481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133275500000#c113327554818601481' 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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-566691718"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113325334726857597</id><published>2005-11-29T03:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-29T03:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>more incomprehensible gibberish...</title><summary type='text'>more incomprehensible gibberish...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113325334726857597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113325334726857597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133253300000#c113325334726857597' 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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113323946629006679</id><published>2005-11-28T23:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-28T23:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t quite understand where this minimalism is ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t quite understand where this minimalism is heading. Are we to be more infected by the punch? Or does it matter which form the punch takes? I suppose not. I am however becoming increasingly concerned that the form will become more important than the meaning, or rather, the voice (or the line, etc. although the line is/can be/can appear as form--masquerading form filler), or really, that the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113323946629006679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113323946629006679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133239440000#c113323946629006679' title=''/><author><name>MissWanda</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14116892725486407839</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-708895044"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113323297754168481</id><published>2005-11-28T21:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-28T21:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Laura recorded three of her poems--two of them, ac...</title><summary type='text'>Laura recorded three of her poems--two of them, actually, were ones that Simon wrote about.  Hopefully this link will work:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.audioblogger.com/media/76591/264188.mp3</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113323297754168481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113323297754168481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133232960000#c113323297754168481' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113321913946734804</id><published>2005-11-28T18:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-28T18:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is gorgeous writing. I definitely envy her ca...</title><summary type='text'>This is gorgeous writing. I definitely envy her careful control. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Luckily, we live in the same town. Perhaps I can absorb some of this precision by osmosis. Or just by a hell of a lot of work.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113321913946734804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113321913946734804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133219100000#c113321913946734804' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113321567418362601</id><published>2005-11-28T17:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-28T17:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sometimes I feel Fence Books are charmed by their ...</title><summary type='text'>Sometimes I feel Fence Books are charmed by their own . . .  whatever. But this one hits the nail on the head. Superb.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CLAY</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113321567418362601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113321567418362601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133215620000#c113321567418362601' title=''/><author><name>CLAY BANES</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658806946108194962</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1291817752"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113318613107283002</id><published>2005-11-28T08:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-28T08:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I did two reviews of Sims: just recently,your seco...</title><summary type='text'>I did two reviews of Sims: just recently,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2005/11/laura-sims-your-second-head.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;your second head&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and way back in January,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2005/01/winter-in-you-laura-sims.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;winter in you&lt;/A&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113318613107283002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113302123911930465/comments/default/113318613107283002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html?showComment=1133186100000#c113318613107283002' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</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/2005/11/practice-restraint-just-may-be-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113302123911930465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113302123911930465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2005"/></entry></feed>