<?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.post116558057119257639..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/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.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>16</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116593305252632209</id><published>2006-12-12T09:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T09:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>also virginia woolf: last words in suicide note to...</title><summary type='text'>also virginia woolf: last words in suicide note to leonard were &quot;please destroy all my papers.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and speaking (sort of) of woolf: i really like mcewan&#39;s work. i think that his &quot;borrowing&quot; from source texts is a strategy -- i mean, beyond the obvious way that it&#39;s a strategy to get the facts right -- of remembrance and forgetting. the form of &quot;atonement&quot; echoes woolf precisely where she </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116593305252632209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116593305252632209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165933020000#c116593305252632209' title=''/><author><name>sarah ruddy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12447051868672763392</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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-335291462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116586207180543076</id><published>2006-12-11T13:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T13:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I apologize for my stupid comment.  I too like the...</title><summary type='text'>I apologize for my stupid comment.  I too like the links and follow many of them.  Don&#39;t know what came over me.  Sometimes I&#39;m just a smart-ass.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116586207180543076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116586207180543076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165862040000#c116586207180543076' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116582249599248654</id><published>2006-12-11T02:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T02:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon, I can&#39;t remember where I read it, but someo...</title><summary type='text'>Simon, I can&#39;t remember where I read it, but someone once made the remark about Kafka&#39;s famous desire that if he &quot;really&quot; wanted his manuscripts burned he certainly could&#39;ve done it himself.  I loved that comment for the calm deflation of all of that self-made Kafka drama.  Additionally, this raventails nicely with pouty Poe and his famous &quot;quietude&quot; crack.  If Poe &quot;really&quot; felt that that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116582249599248654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116582249599248654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165822440000#c116582249599248654' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116581975161824009</id><published>2006-12-11T01:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T01:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Your juxtaposition is glib and cheap, Ron, and Sim...</title><summary type='text'>Your juxtaposition is glib and cheap, Ron, and Simon&#39;s right to have called you on it.  Whatever you think of Vendler, her position on the issue (not one I agree with) has nothing to do with the reading skills of Harvard grads...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116581975161824009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116581975161824009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165819740000#c116581975161824009' title=''/><author><name>Nick</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03366644632952596438</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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-29767501"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116578075934727257</id><published>2006-12-10T14:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T14:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zeke:  Give Ron a break--these links are a sophist...</title><summary type='text'>Zeke:  Give Ron a break--these links are a sophisticated form of networking.  Check&#39;em out.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And why don&#39;t you do the same?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116578075934727257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116578075934727257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165780740000#c116578075934727257' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116574260093938788</id><published>2006-12-10T04:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-10T04:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Take a break, Ron.  I remember not so long ago you...</title><summary type='text'>Take a break, Ron.  I remember not so long ago you  were going in depth on Olson.  Now, it&#39;s lots of fluff, Ron.  Lots of crap links.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why don&#39;t you get back to discussing poetry.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116574260093938788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116574260093938788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165742580000#c116574260093938788' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116562367361733511</id><published>2006-12-08T19:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T19:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I did have an excellent high school teacher (who w...</title><summary type='text'>I did have an excellent high school teacher (who was a poet himself); rest in peace Rex.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116562367361733511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116562367361733511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165623660000#c116562367361733511' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116561140520253789</id><published>2006-12-08T15:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T15:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;simon&quot; wrote:&quot;Vendler&#39;s seminar was my introducti...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;simon&quot; wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Vendler&#39;s seminar was my introduction to poetry and I read just fine, thanks Ron.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Are you suggesting that you had no experience with poetry before coming to Harvard?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A friend of mine sells pot to post-avant-ish Harvard poetry professors (I will NOT name names).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;oggqdhy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116561140520253789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116561140520253789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165611360000#c116561140520253789' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116560455831690696</id><published>2006-12-08T14:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T14:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Addendum:Dickinson&#39;s case is the clearest and most...</title><summary type='text'>Addendum:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dickinson&#39;s case is the clearest and most critical example of what Vendler is talking about---arguably more central to &quot;US poetry&quot; than Vergil or even Kafka (or maybe not, with the current executive...), and yet she doesn&#39;t mention her. At all. Few people really care much about the &lt;I&gt;Aenid&lt;/I&gt; these days. And Kafka&#39;s essential contribution to US poetry seems so purely logical,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116560455831690696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116560455831690696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165604520000#c116560455831690696' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116560180594025413</id><published>2006-12-08T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T13:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Strange that Vendler left out Dickinson. One of he...</title><summary type='text'>Strange that Vendler left out Dickinson. One of her last wishes on her death bed was to have all her writing burned, along with all the letters she had saved. Entrusted one of her sisters with burning the letters; they were destroyed. She trusted her Irish maid (who spent her hard life tirelessly laboring to leave Emily enough free time to hide in her room and masturbate, and who eventually </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116560180594025413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116560180594025413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165601760000#c116560180594025413' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559839365576300</id><published>2006-12-08T12:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T12:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful letter from Pynchon.  And he still uses ...</title><summary type='text'>Beautiful letter from Pynchon.  And he still uses a real typewriter.  Must be one of the last who still does.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559839365576300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559839365576300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165598340000#c116559839365576300' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559798987886121</id><published>2006-12-08T12:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T12:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d like to track the plagiarim story further.  Wh...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d like to track the plagiarim story further.  What did Updike, Amis, Atwood, Keneally and Smith have to say on this subject?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559798987886121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559798987886121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165597980000#c116559798987886121' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559767424501564</id><published>2006-12-08T12:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T12:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gosh, book contests charging entrance fees.What do...</title><summary type='text'>Gosh, book contests charging entrance fees.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What does it cost now to apply for Harvard or Yale--hundreds?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, anyway, college entrance requirements and aspiring fiction contests amount to the same thing.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And &quot;agent-less&quot; no less.  Is that like &quot;principles only&quot; with real estate listings?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Trying to shut the agents out to save on commissions?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559767424501564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559767424501564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165597620000#c116559767424501564' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559669466140890</id><published>2006-12-08T11:51:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T11:51:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vendler&#39;s seminar was my introduction to poetry an...</title><summary type='text'>Vendler&#39;s seminar was my introduction to poetry and I read just fine, thanks Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;PS: full quote for context: &quot; “If you make people promise to burn your manuscripts” — as Kafka and (by legend) Virgil did — “they should,” Vendler insisted. “I think the ‘Aeneid’ should have been burned and Kafka’s works should have been burned, because personal fidelity is more important than art,” she </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559669466140890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559669466140890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165596660001#c116559669466140890' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559666142308352</id><published>2006-12-08T11:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T11:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bjork&#39;s MTV knock-off--She looks like a ringer for...</title><summary type='text'>Bjork&#39;s MTV knock-off--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;She looks like a ringer for Laura San Giacomo, and almost as well-proportioned.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never understood before why women sewed jewelry to their bodies, but now I do.  It&#39;s an expression of their affection.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559666142308352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559666142308352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165596660000#c116559666142308352' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116559564871657209</id><published>2006-12-08T11:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-08T11:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: SeidelAs with all confessional verse, the inte...</title><summary type='text'>Re: Seidel&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As with all confessional verse, the interest devolves upon the subject-matter.  If poetry were really about confession, i.e., our curiosity about the facts of someone&#39;s life, then it would be of no more interest than the gossip columns.  If Sylvia Plath is hailed as a master and a heroine of the women&#39;s movement, it&#39;s because her art elevated her to a position of significance </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559564871657209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116558057119257639/comments/default/116559564871657209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html?showComment=1165595640000#c116559564871657209' 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/2006/12/thomas-pynchon-speaks-out-on-question.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116558057119257639' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116558057119257639' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2006"/></entry></feed>