<?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.post113560631686725444..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/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-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>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113580163606048509</id><published>2005-12-28T15:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-28T15:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ps: speaking of anthologies &amp; kindred things, I be...</title><summary type='text'>ps: speaking of anthologies &amp; kindred things, I belatedly recall &lt;B&gt;Beneath A Sngle Moon&lt;/B&gt; -- a very likeable anthology of American Buddhist poetry (edited by Kent Johnson).  Seemingly out of print (but copies float around).  Haven&#39;t perused it since John Cage signed my copy (perhaps in the last year of his life); can&#39;t quite recall if Merton&#39;s work is in there [would be a broad definition of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113580163606048509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113580163606048509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135801620000#c113580163606048509' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113578988993426648</id><published>2005-12-28T12:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-28T12:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;But just what kind of non-accident is it?&quot;Isn&#39;t i...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;But just what kind of non-accident is it?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Isn&#39;t it NOT a surprise that mystics write poetically? How more effectively/affectively can they communicate their experiences? Under what paradigm would readers be more likely to accept their modes of assertions?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;American Soto Zen, including both Norman Fischer&#39;s SF lineage (via Shunryu Suzuki) and the White Plum lineage (via Taizan </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113578988993426648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113578988993426648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135789860000#c113578988993426648' title=''/><author><name>the fire boss</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04587067960976210678</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1659802336"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113577149214192090</id><published>2005-12-28T07:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-28T07:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kennedy was shot from the front, which means that ...</title><summary type='text'>Kennedy was shot from the front, which means that his assassin was not behind but in front of the limo.  That this was glossed over by the Warren Commission, the FBI, etc., is probably a much greater mystery than who did the act or why.  The stolen elections of both 2000 and 2004 are a similar kind of cover-up: in plain view, with everyone watching.  I suspect that during the balance of Bush II&#39;s</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113577149214192090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113577149214192090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135771440000#c113577149214192090' 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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113570568733620757</id><published>2005-12-27T12:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T12:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Merton&#39;s death perhaps not accidental. He was in B...</title><summary type='text'>Merton&#39;s death perhaps not accidental. He was in Bangkok to deliver an against the war in Vietnam talk to a major gathering of Buddhists, and he went up to his room to relax and prepare and when he didn&#39;t appear and people went to find out why, his electrocuted body was discovered; radio, water on floor.   ....  Of course there are some who believe still that Oswald acted alone, etc.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113570568733620757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113570568733620757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135705680000#c113570568733620757' title=''/><author><name>bill sherman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04168365468808561496</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-230710657"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113569663493593129</id><published>2005-12-27T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T10:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Merton&#39;s literary essays, from New Directions, are...</title><summary type='text'>Merton&#39;s literary essays, from New Directions, are great--an essay on Zukofsky there, also his master&#39;s thesis on Blake. At his death I believe he was working on book of essays on Camus.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113569663493593129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113569663493593129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135696620000#c113569663493593129' title=''/><author><name>sean</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05569620322130763221</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-974195952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113568378022112547</id><published>2005-12-27T06:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T06:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for calling this to attention.  The story o...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for calling this to attention.  The story of Merton&#39;s non-inclusions in anthologies is interesting of course; -- but it (for me) begs question about the value / function / limits of such anthologies.  To the degree they are used in generalist poetry courses in schools, and to the degree such courses introduce new generations of readers to a conceived overview of the literary terrain, of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113568378022112547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113568378022112547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135683780000#c113568378022112547' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113565912417653579</id><published>2005-12-26T23:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T23:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow -- who knew Merton would resonate with Ron?Ano...</title><summary type='text'>Wow -- who knew Merton would resonate with Ron?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Another great Merton correspondence is the one he carried with Milosz.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Influential&quot;, though? Surprised to hear it. Although among the general public Merton&#39;s name is quite well-known, and his writings are widely read. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have to say I resist putting Merton in the &quot;avant-/post-avant&quot; tradition, if only because Merton seems</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113565912417653579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113565912417653579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135659120000#c113565912417653579' 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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113565446108109021</id><published>2005-12-26T22:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T22:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this Ron...a nice piece and an importan...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this Ron...a nice piece and an important thought.  Happy Holidays to any and everyone, whatever those holidays may be.  We do Xmas here...many muslims do...in various ways.  I have tended to focus TOO much on the gifts in the past and TOO little on the feelings of togetherness Xmas provides for the entire world.&lt;BR/&gt;Yes...it is pagan in some respects and I do my darnedest to avoid that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113565446108109021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113565446108109021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135654440000#c113565446108109021' 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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113564886065111061</id><published>2005-12-26T21:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T21:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I’m still discussing the community v. military pos...</title><summary type='text'>I’m still discussing the community v. military postmodern/ modern terminologies irrespective of the stated topic:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If the dynamics of the friendship between Ron and Rae conform to the community model of postmodernism while HD’s correspondence with Pound, providing a better control set than that with the gay Duncan and which quickly led from Pound composing Petrarchan sonnets to HD to HD </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113564886065111061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113564886065111061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135648860000#c113564886065111061' 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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113564407594923115</id><published>2005-12-26T19:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T19:41:00.000-05:00</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/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113564407594923115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113564407594923115'/><author><name>sean</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05569620322130763221</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-974195952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113562618885048776</id><published>2005-12-26T14:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T14:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Rupert Loydell asks me to know that Stride Books i...</title><summary type='text'>Rupert Loydell asks me to know that Stride Books in the UK just put out a volume by Robert Lax, to wit:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;TERTIUM QUID     Robert Lax&lt;BR/&gt;ISBN 1-905024-02-9     £10.00     147pp     pbck     October 2005&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Robert Lax (1915-2000) was a very singular poet. A minimalist before we knew what that was, or had a name for it. A writer in love with silence and almost-empty pages. An American</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113562618885048776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113562618885048776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135626180000#c113562618885048776' 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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113562504057904489</id><published>2005-12-26T14:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T14:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Non-accidental or otherwise, I think a look at the...</title><summary type='text'>Non-accidental or otherwise, I think a look at the rich &lt;I&gt;anti&lt;/I&gt;-clerical heritage of the avant-garde would be much more timely &amp; instructive. If not now, may I suggest Lent, Ramadan or the High Holidays? Best holiday wishes notwithstanding from David Larsen</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113562504057904489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113562504057904489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135625040000#c113562504057904489' title=''/><author><name>New Yipes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04230597329860197294</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1121545337"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560970354536869</id><published>2005-12-26T10:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T10:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As a poet who often uses the blogosphere as a surr...</title><summary type='text'>As a poet who often uses the blogosphere as a surrogate for the traditional mail correspondence models from yesteryear, I  seek out and am comforted by works like this one. There is something about reading intimate exchanges between writers from the past that give me solace, for I think, &quot;Yes. They too fed their souls by seeking community and companionship over great distances.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113560970354536869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113560631686725444/comments/default/113560970354536869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html?showComment=1135609680000#c113560970354536869' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09851500170786902924</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/2005/12/twenty-or-so-years-ago-when-i-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560631686725444' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113560631686725444' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-161454167"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry></feed>