<?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.post116376976634846154..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/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/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>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116505328265977961</id><published>2006-12-02T04:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T04:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lilac:  I think we know how bad our &quot;free press&quot; i...</title><summary type='text'>lilac:  I think we know how bad our &quot;free press&quot; is.  The NY Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker.  What the neo-Cons call our &quot;liberal bias&quot; press.  I would guess most thinking people have a cynical apathy about &quot;truth&quot; for anything remotely political, since they know the &quot;spin&quot; is like being inside eight gyroscopes at once--which if you think about it, is just about what the universe is.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116505328265977961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116505328265977961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1165053240000#c116505328265977961' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116479060469870466</id><published>2006-11-29T03:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-29T03:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378...</title><summary type='text'>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378491023&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hmm.  Midnight Express, the Pope and criminality in Iraq.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So..you said something about what they don&#39;t watch in Iran?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do you even know what it is you aren&#39;t allowed to see in the US?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You are simply &quot;convinced&quot; of your free press.  There is no such thing as a free </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116479060469870466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116479060469870466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164790560000#c116479060469870466' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116470452974816044</id><published>2006-11-28T04:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T04:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.I see we were all a very busy crowd...getting ...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see we were all a very busy crowd...getting our rocks off eh?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ombilic is basically, a campian failure but a fantastic writer once in a while.  He reminds me of so many online &quot;trolls&quot; that do this sort of thing to women like me.  I think that because I am an American, a &#39;redneck&#39;, smart, lyrical AND a Shi&#39;i, I threaten basically everything most of you have come to know </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116470452974816044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116470452974816044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164704520000#c116470452974816044' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116426210755136825</id><published>2006-11-23T01:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T01:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with you, Curtis...when a comedian (or a p...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with you, Curtis...when a comedian (or a person) uses the word &#39;nigger&#39; the way a valley girl uses the word &#39;like,&#39; I have the same gut reaction to that person as I do to the valley girl: a diminished expectation of their intelligence.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it, probably, stems from a lot of things: a desire to be edgy, a force of habit, a cultural commodity, and a way of having a certain </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116426210755136825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116426210755136825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164262080000#c116426210755136825' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116420912730356027</id><published>2006-11-22T10:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T10:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>rain, I think you&#39;ve got all the right interpretat...</title><summary type='text'>rain, I think you&#39;ve got all the right interpretations, here, where each sense (and occasion) of the word belongs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But my point derives from the idea that true comedy is in fact a kind of social criticism.  Richard Prior, like all great comedians, was able to address underlying taboos and connections by making them seem amusing--that is, he could expose and de-construct both white and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116420912730356027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116420912730356027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164209100000#c116420912730356027' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116417582497665169</id><published>2006-11-22T01:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T01:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Very simply:Words are, especially with regards to ...</title><summary type='text'>Very simply:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Words are, especially with regards to race, defined by their original usage, and their connotations stem therefrom.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So &#39;Nigger&#39; was originally used by slave-owning-type black-people-degrading white folk.  Negro was in fashion for a while, until it was realized that the social relationships between blacks and whites was unequal whilst the word &#39;negro&#39; was used, so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116417582497665169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116417582497665169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164175800000#c116417582497665169' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116415700692572180</id><published>2006-11-21T19:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-21T19:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Michael Richard incident raises some interesti...</title><summary type='text'>The Michael Richard incident raises some interesting questions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I suppose the PC position now is that only minorities are allowed to talk trash about themselves.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But the Black comedians are allowed to be very crude and provocative to white audiences.  So are the Hispanic ones.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;White comedians can&#39;t use the &quot;N&quot; word because that has hot historical roots which can&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116415700692572180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116415700692572180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164156960000#c116415700692572180' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116414236394805023</id><published>2006-11-21T15:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-21T15:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, is Ronny boy playing some fun games with &#39;cens...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, is Ronny boy playing some fun games with &#39;censorship.&#39;?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It is kinda cute.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s always a question of where a line gets drawn.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Obviously, certain things get through, and others are deemed obscene due to the &#39;community&#39;s standards.&#39;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Michael Richards will be destroyed, career-wise, for his &#39;you&#39;re a nigga, you&#39;re a nigga&#39; crap.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And they </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116414236394805023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116414236394805023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164142320000#c116414236394805023' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116407822241509194</id><published>2006-11-20T22:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T22:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>lilac, I&#39;m sorry if I offended you with my post ab...</title><summary type='text'>lilac, I&#39;m sorry if I offended you with my post about censorship.  It wasn&#39;t personal.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you&#39;re a fascinating, mysterious person with unplumbed depths.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Stick around and give us your deep gossip.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116407822241509194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116407822241509194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164078180000#c116407822241509194' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116407805678857159</id><published>2006-11-20T22:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T22:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, Ron killed my post about Stephen&#39;s comment, ...</title><summary type='text'>Well, Ron killed my post about Stephen&#39;s comment, which contained nothing but milquetoast.  What&#39;s up, Ron?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116407805678857159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116407805678857159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164078000000#c116407805678857159' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116406801496854107</id><published>2006-11-20T19:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T19:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m really glad Lilac is around again because it m...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m really glad Lilac is around again because it means that we can&#39;t romanticize what a Muslim person might think.  We get actual data.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For instance, we in the west believe in something called Human Rights, and believe it should be universal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Apparently, at least one Muslim person believes that those are of no interest.  That the true criterion of a person is:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Has this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116406801496854107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116406801496854107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164067980000#c116406801496854107' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116405745275442191</id><published>2006-11-20T16:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T16:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d rather believe that basic notions of what it m...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d rather believe that basic notions of what it means to be free and not a slave to the will of others apply to every human being and not just to the United States.   Here is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This includes:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Article 18.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;      Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405745275442191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405745275442191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164057420000#c116405745275442191' title=''/><author><name>trionfetti</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12034120827255312947</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1306131592"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116405380205604585</id><published>2006-11-20T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T15:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How did &quot;omblic&quot;&#39;s obscene abuse of &quot;Lilac&quot;/&quot;Lady ...</title><summary type='text'>How did &quot;omblic&quot;&#39;s obscene abuse of &quot;Lilac&quot;/&quot;Lady Jane&quot; ever get through comment moderation?  Never in a million years did I think I would be &#39;defending&#39; someone who says things like &#39;Zionists&#39; &#39;cooperated&#39; with the Holocaust but much of what she says is of interest and in any case I don&#39;t understand allowing such abuse if there are any other things that have been disallowed.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405380205604585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405380205604585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164053760000#c116405380205604585' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116405307164736965</id><published>2006-11-20T15:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T15:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not sure what&#39;s going on here anymore.  This s...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not sure what&#39;s going on here anymore.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This stuff gets through the Silliman and a recent post of minedidnt&#39;?  Maybe it didn&#39;t post correctly, or was too long, or too unintelligent?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hrmm.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405307164736965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405307164736965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164053040000#c116405307164736965' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116405131977314689</id><published>2006-11-20T14:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T14:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Censorship&#39;s a slippery topic.  Do Mormons in Sout...</title><summary type='text'>Censorship&#39;s a slippery topic.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do Mormons in Southern Utah have the right to ban the internet from their children&#39;s lives, in order to prevent them from spending hours surfing for porn?  I should think so.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do Muslims in another country--not based on democratic principles, and without concepts of representation and freedom of the press, etc.--have the right to dictate the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405131977314689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116405131977314689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164051300000#c116405131977314689' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116404479250622511</id><published>2006-11-20T12:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T12:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ian, why would you imagine I want war with Ir...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ian, why would you imagine I want war with Iran or even imagine that I endorse the New Republic?  I would take the time to say so if I did.  My point is that, as usual, there are many who think that they have the right to tell others what they can read.  The President of Iran and Lady Whoever are among them.  There&#39;s no excuse.  They don&#39;t have that right.  Lady Whoever&#39;s particular </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116404479250622511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116404479250622511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164044760000#c116404479250622511' title=''/><author><name>trionfetti</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12034120827255312947</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1306131592"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116404254053819814</id><published>2006-11-20T12:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T12:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Omby:Oh to be a virgin again!  But not in heaven! ...</title><summary type='text'>Omby:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh to be a virgin again!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But not in heaven!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Say three Hail Allahs, Omby, and watch your back.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116404254053819814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116404254053819814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164042540000#c116404254053819814' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116403806570378662</id><published>2006-11-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso stayed with Alan Ansen for a long while in V...</title><summary type='text'>Corso stayed with Alan Ansen for a long while in Venice.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And he was also friends with Auden and visited him often in NYC.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have now about 120 pages of the Corso biography I am putting together which was first announced on your blog.  I still don&#39;t have anything from the Europeans who must have known him in Italy, France, and Greece.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What I&#39;m asking for are sharp </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116403806570378662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116403806570378662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164038040000#c116403806570378662' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116400284759328580</id><published>2006-11-20T01:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T01:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>LazyChain (T[alibantritetribunaltorturess]M[asochi...</title><summary type='text'>LazyChain (T[alibantritetribunaltorturess]M[asochistmadwomanmistress]) wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;we muslims think non muslims should be embarrassed about not washing their genitals after they defacate and urinate&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Does that mean you can&#39;t crap without shitting in your own vagina?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You Muslims, you cultured. You duh shit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why shouldn&#39;t we conquer the Middle East, slaughter its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116400284759328580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116400284759328580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164002820000#c116400284759328580' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116400202492908219</id><published>2006-11-20T00:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T00:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lilacleanlabialady lulled:&quot;You know, personally, w...</title><summary type='text'>Lilacleanlabialady lulled:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;You know, personally, we muslims think non muslims should be embarrassed about not washing their genitals after they defacate and urinate but far be it from me to suggest that the West is a backwards country for not teaching people basic cleanliness. :)&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You just love to touch yourself. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To pour water over your uncircumcised clitoris, feel it</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116400202492908219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116400202492908219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1164001980000#c116400202492908219' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116397373655787404</id><published>2006-11-19T17:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T17:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Anonymous Warmonger (trionfetti), It is apt t...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Anonymous Warmonger (trionfetti), It is apt that an attempt at a discussion of contemporary fiction would turn to the New Republic, the fiction magazine that in true Ayatollah fashion called for the death of Arundhati Roy.  The electorate has rejected its dream of a nuclear attack against Iran.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116397373655787404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116397373655787404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1163973720000#c116397373655787404' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116396493234917804</id><published>2006-11-19T14:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T14:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;but if I wanted to deconstruct your every move..I...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;but if I wanted to deconstruct your every move..I could and you&#39;d bleed out a natural lesson at my verbal skills&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;holy cow! you&#39;re like a dope battle rapper...lyrically wreckin&#39; mc&#39;s and stuff...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116396493234917804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116396493234917804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1163964900000#c116396493234917804' title=''/><author><name>John Sakkis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08621102858745971700</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1144833194"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116394207641125425</id><published>2006-11-19T08:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T08:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>All the talk of &quot;cultural sensitivity&quot; is just a s...</title><summary type='text'>All the talk of &quot;cultural sensitivity&quot; is just a smokescreen. The man and his followers want a dictatorship. Stalin, Hitler etc. etc, Books are always burned. Some support it. There is no excuse. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Look....when and if the books demonstrate personal responsibility here &quot;in the US&quot; (and mind you, I am an American baby) then perhaps this &quot;smokescreen&quot; you speak of will disappear.  The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116394207641125425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116394207641125425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1163942040000#c116394207641125425' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116393673838324343</id><published>2006-11-19T06:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T06:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I really wish I had the time to go into the person...</title><summary type='text'>I really wish I had the time to go into the personal censorship suggested by Curtis and the responses to that sort of thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You know, I don&#39;t really have to &#39;either&#39; you see.  And that is what it is all about in this culture...we don&#39;t have to.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh it behooves us to do so, I assure you...to see things not as we KNOW they are (to ourselves) but to know what they mean &#39;over there&#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116393673838324343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116393673838324343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1163936700000#c116393673838324343' 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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116391452723231175</id><published>2006-11-19T00:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T00:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady Jane, it comes off as fearful and paranoid fo...</title><summary type='text'>Lady Jane, it comes off as fearful and paranoid for a country to disallow interaction with other culture&#39;s literary histories.  Is the culture that you are defending so weak that it can&#39;t stand up to reading some books written by Americans?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To say that U.S. Culture is defined by the Amish shootings and Columbine etc. is, well, illogical and offensive.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It is not acceptable </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116391452723231175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116376976634846154/comments/default/116391452723231175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html?showComment=1163914500000#c116391452723231175' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02882791018391366108</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/2006/11/only-thomas-pynchon-reading-you-may.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116376976634846154' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116376976634846154' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2006"/></entry></feed>