<?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.post2716635418067548101..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/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.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>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1521606407198762641</id><published>2008-07-02T08:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T08:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are no accidents ... but if you take Eve Arn...</title><summary type='text'>There are no accidents ... but if you take Eve Arnold&#39;s letter excerpt about the event, as quoted in the beginning of the P &amp; W, at face value, she claims that they came to do a shoot, and while Arnold was setting up, MM was killing time reading. She got the film in the camera and saw a shot.  She says that MM told her she liked to read the book aloud, though she admitted to not understanding it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1521606407198762641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1521606407198762641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1215000060000#c1521606407198762641' title=''/><author><name>Poetics</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17632135985706207021</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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-446441612"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8480053456808269169</id><published>2008-06-29T21:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T21:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i&#39;m looking at her facei&#39;m trying to see the perso...</title><summary type='text'>i&#39;m looking at her face&lt;BR/&gt;i&#39;m trying to see the person there&lt;BR/&gt;there is a mask&lt;BR/&gt;her left eye betrays something&lt;BR/&gt;perhaps pharmeceutical distortion&lt;BR/&gt;something plastic&lt;BR/&gt;but of course&lt;BR/&gt;we are three or four steps&lt;BR/&gt;of&lt;BR/&gt;abstraction removed from the actual scene&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i want to see her face&lt;BR/&gt;i would like to know&lt;BR/&gt; how she really appeared&lt;BR/&gt;before the dragon swallowed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8480053456808269169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8480053456808269169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214790180000#c8480053456808269169' 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='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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8741861231561252288</id><published>2008-06-29T20:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T20:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Two no-nos equals yes.</title><summary type='text'>Two no-nos equals yes.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8741861231561252288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8741861231561252288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214786700000#c8741861231561252288' 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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2707294879384672959</id><published>2008-06-29T17:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T17:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ok</title><summary type='text'>ok</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/2707294879384672959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/2707294879384672959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214776440000#c2707294879384672959' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915928048"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-330600028002571402</id><published>2008-06-29T16:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T16:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jilly,It&#39;s the timing. This was right in the middl...</title><summary type='text'>Jilly,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s the timing. This was right in the middle of the run-up to marrying Miller, and I&#39;m presuming that somebody who is willing to change her religion is making a considerable effort to restructure who she is &amp; wants to be. I will concede that I could be completely wrong on this, that she read the book &amp; he never did. But Occam&#39;s razor suggests otherwise,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/330600028002571402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/330600028002571402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214772420000#c330600028002571402' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5707201240559260226</id><published>2008-06-29T14:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Arnold&#39;s photo seems brilliant for several reasons...</title><summary type='text'>Arnold&#39;s photo seems brilliant for several reasons. The built-in voyeurism at work: a half-clothed sex symbol caught reading literature (and erotic literature at that). The child&#39;s playground adds a hint of taboo (the thicket of off-kilter trees in the background helps this along). The photo&#39;s staged, but feels candid and amazingly rare: we come upon MM and for once she&#39;s seemingly unaware of her</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/5707201240559260226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/5707201240559260226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214763120000#c5707201240559260226' title=''/><author><name>barnes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18048458442561567603</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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1344149813"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3039915389361579445</id><published>2008-06-29T14:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ps and Bettie Page was salutatorian of her high sc...</title><summary type='text'>ps and Bettie Page was salutatorian of her high school in Nashville, and went to Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt) with a BA in English.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/3039915389361579445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/3039915389361579445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214762880000#c3039915389361579445' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915928048"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1166750923862935339</id><published>2008-06-29T14:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;My guess is that this is Miller’s copy of Ulysses...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;My guess is that this is Miller’s copy of Ulysses. Monroe is working to fit into Miller’s world.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;WTF? That made me laugh out loud &amp; not in a good way.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;She was a reader -- when they auctioned off her stuff a while back, there were &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://marilynmonroecollection.com/TheBook2.htm&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a lot of books&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What made you assume that?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1166750923862935339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1166750923862935339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214762760000#c1166750923862935339' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915928048"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1812557749121181206</id><published>2008-06-29T14:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T14:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That Ulysses &amp; Monroe has long been a favorite of ...</title><summary type='text'>That Ulysses &amp; Monroe has long been a favorite of mine. I have the same edition of Ulysses. It&#39;s my reading-outside edition.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1812557749121181206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/1812557749121181206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214762400000#c1812557749121181206' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4177123099388540007</id><published>2008-06-29T00:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T00:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>@steve of course it&#39;s *staged*, i mean, her outfit...</title><summary type='text'>@steve of course it&#39;s *staged*, i mean, her outfit (i don&#39;t think it&#39;s  a bathing suit, i think it&#39;s a &quot;play outfit&quot; with very short shorts, like children wear to play on the playground) matches the playground equipment and she&#39;s made-up and she was being watched by a photographer.  and she probably wasn&#39;t actually reading the book when these pictures were being taken (who could concentrate?). </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/4177123099388540007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/4177123099388540007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214715000000#c4177123099388540007' title=''/><author><name>Jessica Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04717874657318262267</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/464838210_bb770cb045_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614957257"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-621009823397546914</id><published>2008-06-29T00:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T00:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I once walked into a cafe in the south of France &amp;...</title><summary type='text'>I once walked into a cafe in the south of France &amp; found Jacques Roubaud reading &lt;I&gt;The New Sentence&lt;/I&gt;. That was pretty special, but it&#39;s probably the closest I&#39;ll get to a famous person sighted reading my work. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s no question that the shoot was staged, but Eve Arnold also appears to have been a friend. And the whole idea of what it means to &quot;stage a shoot&quot; has changed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/621009823397546914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/621009823397546914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214714280000#c621009823397546914' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7390235884745170799</id><published>2008-06-28T14:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T14:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Okay, MM read the book, I was wrong. There&#39;s a new...</title><summary type='text'>Okay, MM read the book, I was wrong. There&#39;s a news article only a few years back, easily enough pulled up on the web, suggesting that MM did her own free-association tape recordings, apparently inspired by Joyce&#39;s Molly.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;These photos still gotta be staged images, though.  I really doubt MM put on her bathing suit, went out to the playground with her book, and then Eve Arnold just </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/7390235884745170799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/7390235884745170799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214678880000#c7390235884745170799' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6723589262904147338</id><published>2008-06-28T14:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T14:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>was just this morning connecting wit someone  in m...</title><summary type='text'>was just this morning connecting wit someone  in my own way re:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;John Cage  and those  pervasive  renderings of &quot;m&quot;... well  John C did in fact  after-the-fact of his &quot;chancing upon&quot; (his) M (see the 1973 book so titled)  listed of a dozen or so names/things that began with the letter &quot;m&quot;..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;after getting my copy (in 1973) of his book I &lt;BR/&gt;dropped him a post-card saying..&quot;well, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/6723589262904147338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/6723589262904147338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214678280000#c6723589262904147338' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8402820274175237856</id><published>2008-06-28T14:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T14:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,In the larger format of the P&amp;W cover, it&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In the larger format of the &lt;I&gt;P&amp;W&lt;/I&gt; cover, it&#39;s clear that she still has some pages to read.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And I wrote &quot;the same chapter,&quot; not the same page -- you&#39;re the one having fantasies here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyone who was a regular at Ear Inn during the heyday of that series knows that West Point cadets were told to come into Manhattan once a term to attend a reading somewhere. A </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8402820274175237856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8402820274175237856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214676840000#c8402820274175237856' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7427719201920241776</id><published>2008-06-28T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It looks to me in the first photo that MM&#39;s readin...</title><summary type='text'>It looks to me in the first photo that MM&#39;s reading the inside back cover, not actual text. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your belief that she&#39;s reading the &quot;same page&quot; in both photos is a pure dream.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But a good dream it is. It makes for a much more blood engorged fantasy, doesn&#39;t it, to think of the leggy beauty reading Molly on the kid&#39;s toys?  Intelligence combined with an avocation to read gets me </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/7427719201920241776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/7427719201920241776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214674020000#c7427719201920241776' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3466207410120823251</id><published>2008-06-28T12:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T12:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>the logical historical conclusion then is the end ...</title><summary type='text'>the logical historical conclusion then is the end of monroes&#39; life&lt;BR/&gt;the girl all alone on the weekend&lt;BR/&gt;and nobody calls&lt;BR/&gt;or was she really just casually dispensed with by the mafia&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;no doubt&lt;BR/&gt;an important paradigm was established there&lt;BR/&gt;the image doesn&#39;t seem to die&lt;BR/&gt;but the girl herself&lt;BR/&gt;god&lt;BR/&gt; what a mess&lt;BR/&gt;yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/3466207410120823251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/3466207410120823251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214668800000#c3466207410120823251' 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='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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2823249924976322034</id><published>2008-06-28T11:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T11:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That is an interesting question, Ron: what is the ...</title><summary type='text'>That is an interesting question, Ron: what is the difference between &quot;reading&quot; and &quot;wanting to be seen reading&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/2823249924976322034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/2823249924976322034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214666160000#c2823249924976322034' title=''/><author><name>Tim Peterson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12788267620443595389</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ss3Eh44fNE8/SA0iNXCbgcI/AAAAAAAAABU/POvOEYAF3jo/S220/tim_2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-255165047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8477302506652724322</id><published>2008-06-28T10:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T10:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;In his preface to A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer, Lou...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;In his preface to A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer, Louis Mink says that the time for naive enjoyment of Finnegans Wake is past. He says that now we are obliged to continue the scholarly unraveling of its mysteries. And an editorial in a magazine published at the Centre Pompidou says that the most urgent and important art work to be done now is to come to an analytical understanding of the art of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8477302506652724322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8477302506652724322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214664780000#c8477302506652724322' 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/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8824757799117218110</id><published>2008-06-28T10:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T10:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I remember reading somewhere-- in an interview wit...</title><summary type='text'>I remember reading somewhere-- in an interview with MM? (I apologize to your more anal readers for not being able to provide a full reference)-- MM&#39;s commentary on her experience with the novel.  I don&#39;t really have any doubt that she read it-- it was a controversial book, sold well, MM was an avid reader, etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not sure why this would mean she was reading it to &quot;fit into Miller&#39;s world.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8824757799117218110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2716635418067548101/comments/default/8824757799117218110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html?showComment=1214662380000#c8824757799117218110' title=''/><author><name>Jessica Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04717874657318262267</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/464838210_bb770cb045_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/current-summer-reading-issue-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2716635418067548101' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2716635418067548101' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614957257"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2008"/></entry></feed>