<?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.post117041346408127076..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/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117077350552076901</id><published>2007-02-06T09:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T09:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>whoops -- forgot to enable sitemeter.com under NoS...</title><summary type='text'>whoops -- forgot to enable sitemeter.com under NoScript in Firefox -- only for you !</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117077350552076901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117077350552076901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170773460000#c117077350552076901' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15430253706561827669</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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1299334260"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117077124780630732</id><published>2007-02-06T09:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T09:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>if i wrote a book, i&#39;d want Rae and Ron to review ...</title><summary type='text'>if i wrote a book, i&#39;d want Rae and Ron to review it&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the 99% rejection rate has sloped into around 90% -- feels great !&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thanks, Ron.  happy millionth :-)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117077124780630732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117077124780630732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170771240000#c117077124780630732' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15430253706561827669</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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1299334260"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117045466248221000</id><published>2007-02-02T17:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T17:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I read &#39;larva&#39; instead of &#39;lava&#39; first time &#39;round...</title><summary type='text'>I read &#39;larva&#39; instead of &#39;lava&#39; first time &#39;round.  Larva would be in line with &#39;children,&#39; which would make the old woman the &#39;pool,&#39; which would be a comment about the wisdom of age and maybe something about the purity of death, that the old &#39;leaving us&#39; in death is actually better phrased as &#39;we turn to go&#39; from the path set before us, and two girls helping an old lady across the parking lot </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045466248221000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045466248221000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170454620000#c117045466248221000' 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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1598785473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117045416378013086</id><published>2007-02-02T17:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T17:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the &quot;improvised explosive device&quot; metaphor...</title><summary type='text'>I think the &quot;improvised explosive device&quot; metaphor here is lousy.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However good this book is, an IED ain&#39;t the appropriate analogy.  Armantrout&#39;s energy is carefully, very carefully controlled.  I don&#39;t smell improvisation in her work.  Also, it&#39;s work that gets into your head, and makes the mind work it over.  Not explosive.  Lautreamont is explosive. Armantrout is insiduous.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045416378013086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045416378013086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170454140000#c117045416378013086' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117045140209231194</id><published>2007-02-02T16:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T16:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like the register of &#39;indistinguishable&#39; to the ...</title><summary type='text'>I like the register of &#39;indistinguishable&#39; to the lava (which, to me at least, connotes fire).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045140209231194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117045140209231194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170451380000#c117045140209231194' title=''/><author><name>Kevin Doran</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08640770705948611352</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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-405491431"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117044636940276642</id><published>2007-02-02T14:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T14:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Another comment:Rae&#39;s work struck me in the past a...</title><summary type='text'>Another comment:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rae&#39;s work struck me in the past as a kind of &quot;criticism&quot; of the cliches (or unconscious disclosures) of language.  She says somewhere that, growing up, she was constantly hearing hypocrisy and ignorance in everyday language, in the family, at school, wherever, and that her poetry was in some sense a laying bare of that--letting the words clash and expose themselves and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117044636940276642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117044636940276642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170446340000#c117044636940276642' 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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117044347517275300</id><published>2007-02-02T14:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T14:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I took the two lava arms to parallel the two girls...</title><summary type='text'>I took the two lava arms to parallel the two girls, but not at all in a comfortable analogy--the volcanic suggestion connects with &quot;energetic, explanatory bursts,&quot; but that clashes with &quot;cradling.&quot; And the lava that forms an ocean pool would be long-cooled, whereas the expectancy that ends the first paragraph of &quot;Clear&quot; would parallel something yet to come. And there&#39;s the change in tense between</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117044347517275300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117044347517275300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170443460000#c117044347517275300' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117043534800691061</id><published>2007-02-02T11:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T11:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, in the second sentence of &quot;Clear&quot; you&#39;ve prin...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, in the second sentence of &quot;Clear&quot; you&#39;ve printed &quot;They hold her ands and speak...&quot;  --should it be &quot;hands&quot; or &quot;ands&quot;? (or &quot;ants&quot;?)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In the second paragraph, the sentence is a fragment, from &quot;As if...&quot; we don&#39;t get the participle.  Did you misquote this too?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, I don&#39;t see the bubble of gas at the bottom of the fish tank in &quot;Remote&quot; as the writer&#39;s, or reader&#39;s.  That&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117043534800691061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117043534800691061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170435300000#c117043534800691061' 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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117042743891813290</id><published>2007-02-02T09:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T09:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess when you stop seeing poets as gods and pro...</title><summary type='text'>I guess when you stop seeing poets as gods and prophets you can start to see them in linear fashion.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Young to old and how that influences their work when their work is a reflection of their self and they recognize that their self is in fact a measure of what others and perhaps even Allah, thinks of them.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117042743891813290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117042743891813290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170427380000#c117042743891813290' 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/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041941946366444</id><published>2007-02-02T07:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-02T07:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>nefe lixtAn old woman is-being torvaldLED&#39;s throug...</title><summary type='text'>nefe lixt&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;An old woman is-being torvald&lt;BR/&gt;LED&#39;s through the parking bleeders&lt;BR/&gt;Lot lead by two girlsalt. columnnade &lt;BR/&gt;nadded in adder baals (awl)&lt;BR/&gt;They hold herms and sand-speak&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;our glass&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;in energetisexplanatory be ur&lt;BR/&gt;be pyramidical, be zag-ziggureticalling&lt;BR/&gt;streets while she cranks her he ha&lt;BR/&gt;hoo-ha ads this way &lt;BR/&gt;and that whey &lt;BR/&gt;as if mill&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117041941946366444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117041346408127076/comments/default/117041941946366444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html?showComment=1170419400000#c117041941946366444' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/blog/face1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-something-about-construction_02.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117041346408127076' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117041346408127076' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 02, 2007"/></entry></feed>