<?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.post2540210554266496676..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/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.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>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4376905075817166387</id><published>2010-05-11T13:57:07.896-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-11T13:57:07.896-04:00</updated><title type='text'>kirby&#xa;i don&amp;#39;t know what your problem is here&#xa;e...</title><summary type='text'>kirby&lt;br /&gt;i don&amp;#39;t know what your problem is here&lt;br /&gt;eagleton makes a perfectly coherent catholic proclamation&lt;br /&gt;without having to resort to the obvious basis of his argument&lt;br /&gt;which is a fairly coherent judgment of the emptiness of much of the work labelled &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; of the past 100 years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it&amp;#39;s a sunday sermon in my book&lt;br /&gt;where it&amp;#39;s pointing is the real </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/4376905075817166387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/4376905075817166387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273600627896#c4376905075817166387' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='14' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GGxzozVkZvg/SoNWqdZHBoI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IGjF8tvmWwg/S220/sculpture_crop2%5B1%5D.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5901916713389607548</id><published>2010-05-09T17:57:07.251-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T17:57:07.251-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If anybody wades through this whole thing please t...</title><summary type='text'>If anybody wades through this whole thing please tell me if he says anything about Christianity and about what minute or so that might be.  I would like to hear that part if there is anything.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/5901916713389607548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/5901916713389607548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273442227251#c5901916713389607548' 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/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3222054051033816108</id><published>2010-05-09T12:26:05.408-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T12:26:05.408-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I differ strongly on the issue of critics tending ...</title><summary type='text'>I differ strongly on the issue of critics tending the complexity and texture (as Eagleton, like his Wilde, might have said) of language. That, my dear, is the property of the people who speak it. Most critics I&amp;#39;ve known have been erectors of jargon cathedrals and diggers of deep moats below the challengers to orthodoxy (barring some I&amp;#39;m sure) - fine engineers, but not makers of the Word </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/3222054051033816108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/3222054051033816108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273422365408#c3222054051033816108' title=''/><author><name>Old 333</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J3TAxT5vmhg/S34aLinYP7I/AAAAAAAAC4Y/k82j2EYWgBA/S220/lucky.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1941817897"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9004797171879737485</id><published>2010-05-09T11:59:15.070-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T11:59:15.070-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Eagleton- marxism with a few hints of rationalism....</title><summary type='text'>Eagleton- marxism with a few hints of rationalism. Perhaps superior to che guevara school, at least for whitey (when the Rev. arrives at yr doorstep, la gente won&amp;#39;t care too much about yr collection of pomo texts, or yr quotes from Capital...)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/9004797171879737485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/9004797171879737485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273420755070#c9004797171879737485' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/S-Mhd26f68I/AAAAAAAABCs/-DRnC_5JCm4/S220/RinglingProgramCover1929.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7286466539125895050</id><published>2010-05-09T11:41:35.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T11:41:35.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Eagleton&amp;#39;s critiques of &amp;#39;postmodernism&amp;#39...</title><summary type='text'>Eagleton&amp;#39;s critiques of &amp;#39;postmodernism&amp;#39; have been pretty devastating, too.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/7286466539125895050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/7286466539125895050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273419695001#c7286466539125895050' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4798805278035562727</id><published>2010-05-09T09:54:28.390-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T09:54:28.390-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for posting this. Eagleton, among other thi...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for posting this. Eagleton, among other things, is a superb stylist, an element that gives his ongoing attack on the Gordian Knot that Theory has become  an extra jolt. He remains the skeptical Marxist , convinced that words and the narratives they form have meanings and uses that effect the world we live in and discussing the terms and techniques of persuasion can change our perception. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/4798805278035562727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/4798805278035562727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273413268390#c4798805278035562727' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7469019647046260685</id><published>2010-05-09T08:33:15.052-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T08:33:15.052-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This made me very tired.</title><summary type='text'>This made me very tired.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/7469019647046260685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2540210554266496676/comments/default/7469019647046260685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html?showComment=1273408395052#c7469019647046260685' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/SeB3B8MTI5I/AAAAAAAAAm4/rWoHodRohJA/S220/arco+iris.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post_09.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2540210554266496676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2540210554266496676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2010"/></entry></feed>