<?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.post115572578101675395..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/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115634343213665265</id><published>2006-08-23T10:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-23T10:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Particularly if you think there is a political di...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Particularly if you think there is a political dimension to what you are doing, I think guys will find it almost spooky just how completely on target DuPlessis’ own takes are, repeatedly throughout this piece, not just simply on or about gender, but across the board.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yes, the &quot;chick&quot; poet really has it goin&#39; on.  I never thought of myself as anything but a generic poet with a generic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115634343213665265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115634343213665265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1156343400000#c115634343213665265' title=''/><author><name>Forward From The Warnings</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16367813680501672133</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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1664102677"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115581354257372477</id><published>2006-08-17T07:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T07:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m sure the guy goes out like anyone else but jus...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m sure the guy goes out like anyone else but just doesn&#39;t announce himself.  Isn&#39;t that the problem all celebrities claim to have?  They can&#39;t just go to a movie, and at the very least Pynchon has maintained that sense of individuality.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think our obsession with folks like Pynchon and Salinger (folks like?  Is there anyone else doing what they do?) comes from the fact that we don&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115581354257372477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115581354257372477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155813540000#c115581354257372477' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115579806715413300</id><published>2006-08-17T03:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T03:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>How about a theory that doesn&#39;t involve mental ill...</title><summary type='text'>How about a theory that doesn&#39;t involve mental illness? There&#39;s a lot of material on black magick in his writings so maybe he&#39;s guarding himself from psychic attack. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s true that publicizing one&#39;s privacy is self-defeating--or is it? Lacan says the nature of the father figure is to say yes by virtue of how he says no. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I still await a writer who&#39;ll find a way to reach pop </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115579806715413300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115579806715413300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155798060000#c115579806715413300' title=''/><author><name>Fabian Delecto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06212144823606055500</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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1031207256"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115577286756080023</id><published>2006-08-16T20:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T20:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>pynchon&#39;s wife is a literary agent, melanie jackso...</title><summary type='text'>pynchon&#39;s wife is a literary agent, melanie jackson (she reps rick moody, or did). he&#39;s not really all that hard to run into. he appears in public in the sense we all do, like a a normal dude. he just doesn&#39;t appear in public as Pynchon the Author. except when he&#39;s writing liner notes for bands like Lotion. :)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115577286756080023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115577286756080023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155772860000#c115577286756080023' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115576691112063854</id><published>2006-08-16T18:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T18:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Isn&#39;t it just possible that writers of serious fic...</title><summary type='text'>Isn&#39;t it just possible that writers of serious fiction, like Pynchon, or Berger, or Gaddis, lead lives of quiet desperation, and that knowing in detail about them adds nothing to our appreciation of their works?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why should writers submit to interviews and signings and lectures, etc., if they don&#39;t want to?  Cormac McCarthy refuses all of this, and it hasn&#39;t hurt his reputation one iota</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115576691112063854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115576691112063854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155766860000#c115576691112063854' 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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115576662785760369</id><published>2006-08-16T18:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T18:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:I thought the story on Duncan was that he felt...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I thought the story on Duncan was that he felt that poets were &quot;publishing too much&quot;, and that he thought it a good gesture--if not a good exercise--to refrain for a period of 15 years, in order to let his work gestate and/or his audience cool down.  That led--directly or indirectly--to the decision to insist on typewriter (equivalent spaced) font for the two books that did </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115576662785760369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115576662785760369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155766620000#c115576662785760369' 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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115574688771003267</id><published>2006-08-16T12:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T12:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I see Ron is getting hung up on the cult of person...</title><summary type='text'>I see Ron is getting hung up on the cult of personality, which has always been so much a part of the pop fiction market.  Capote and Mailer.  Mailer and Vidal.  Ginsberg and Kerouac.  Fitzgerald and Hemingway.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My earlier point was that attempting to build a conceptual frame out of the publication history of an author was doomed, since the actual facts of an author&#39;s life are not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115574688771003267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115574688771003267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155746880000#c115574688771003267' 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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572738805892239</id><published>2006-08-16T07:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T07:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great post!  And thanks for the link to the teeny ...</title><summary type='text'>Great post!  And thanks for the link to the teeny bit of the new novel, though part of me wonders if this is the real thing or parody. Then again, with Pynchon, I&quot;m not sure those terms are relevant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115572738805892239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115572578101675395/comments/default/115572738805892239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html?showComment=1155727380000#c115572738805892239' title=''/><author><name>myshkin2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12334340208396536106</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/2006/08/danish-documentary-thomas-pynchon.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115572578101675395' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115572578101675395' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-16179833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2006"/></entry></feed>