<?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.post3374113790639412981..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/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.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>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2052304390718399771</id><published>2008-01-10T22:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T22:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alas, Poor Yorick!</title><summary type='text'>Alas, Poor Yorick!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2052304390718399771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2052304390718399771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1200022860000#c2052304390718399771' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1359662205532117174</id><published>2008-01-10T16:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T16:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I always have nice interactions with security pers...</title><summary type='text'>I always have nice interactions with security personnel.  I like them.  I have been pulled over for speeding, and even then I enjoy talking with them.  They&#39;re so nice to pull me over and save me from going too fast.  In France, I really enjoyed the police immensely and always said, bonjour, and slapped five with them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think their jobs must be amazingly difficult, but it amazes me that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/1359662205532117174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/1359662205532117174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199999040000#c1359662205532117174' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4528354610666850570</id><published>2008-01-10T10:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T10:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i think we need more people like simone de beauvoi...</title><summary type='text'>i think we need more people like &lt;BR/&gt;simone de beauvoir&lt;BR/&gt;working the security world&lt;BR/&gt;free thinking sexually liberated types&lt;BR/&gt;then&lt;BR/&gt;any encounter would carry with it&lt;BR/&gt;other possibilities&lt;BR/&gt;if security wonks were poets&lt;BR/&gt;and thinkers&lt;BR/&gt;then&lt;BR/&gt;when we get arrested &lt;BR/&gt;there could be the requirement&lt;BR/&gt;of a recitation of poetry&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;yeah&lt;BR/&gt;the problem with a society&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/4528354610666850570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/4528354610666850570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199979720000#c4528354610666850570' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2546920742607744015</id><published>2008-01-10T10:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T10:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, thought this article from USA Today would be ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, thought this article from USA Today would be of interest.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most Literate Cities:&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-12-26-literate-cities_N.htm</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2546920742607744015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2546920742607744015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199979540000#c2546920742607744015' title=''/><author><name>Sean MacInnes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11942542509383662178</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1363491264"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7551057459912892742</id><published>2008-01-10T00:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-10T00:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s an interesting contradiction, Kirby.  On the ...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s an interesting contradiction, Kirby.  On the one hand, we (and I mean all of us) benefit from the baseline sense of security which American law and order produces; but at the same time, our police and militias and army are as corrupt (in their way) as any such organizations in the world.  We do have some checks and balances--though they often are as corrupt as the systems they&#39;re meant to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/7551057459912892742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/7551057459912892742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199943960000#c7551057459912892742' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-218534585140642711</id><published>2008-01-09T23:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T23:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,No I did not.</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No I did not.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/218534585140642711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/218534585140642711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199940180000#c218534585140642711' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2605795816921547936</id><published>2008-01-09T19:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T19:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m in favor of the military industrial complex.  ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m in favor of the military industrial complex.  The only thing better for a neighbor than an American soldier is an American police officer.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never really understood the term. It sounds like a mental illness that leftists get.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Son, you have a military industrial complex.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;What should I do?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Join up.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2605795816921547936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/2605795816921547936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199925360000#c2605795816921547936' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-342593208472924935</id><published>2008-01-09T18:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T18:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, did you decline to post my entry on the LA Mu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, did you decline to post my entry on the LA Museum squabble?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;????</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/342593208472924935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/342593208472924935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199921700000#c342593208472924935' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7074115352666728324</id><published>2008-01-09T15:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T15:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If I was going to write a Donald Hall parody I don...</title><summary type='text'>If I was going to write a Donald Hall parody I don&#39;t think I could have done better than that article in the Times.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Regarding the Oxford Anthology; it&#39;s been good in the past (I remember reading the first one when I was at Cambridge.) I wouldn&#39;t put it in the Louise Gluck pile, more perhaps the &quot;Elliptical&quot; one. At least a few of the poets in the first anthology knew who Prynne was. But </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/7074115352666728324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/7074115352666728324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199910480000#c7074115352666728324' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-326626894527399370</id><published>2008-01-09T15:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T15:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>No, Borges did not &quot;invent&quot; the internet.  He did ...</title><summary type='text'>No, Borges did not &quot;invent&quot; the internet.  He did imagine things that the internet permitted, and that&#39;s a pretty good feat in itself.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So far as I can tell, the internet came from the same basic group of people and institutions that gave us Tang and transistors (and gave Ken Kesey LSD): the &quot;military -industrial complex.&quot;  This  confuses me.  Eisenhower among many others warned us </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/326626894527399370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/326626894527399370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199910000000#c326626894527399370' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6462449392071209237</id><published>2008-01-09T15:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T15:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: The review of Malcolm&#39;s Stein/Toklas book:It&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Re: The review of Malcolm&#39;s Stein/Toklas book:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s perfectly obvious to anyone familiar with Stein&#39;s work that it falls into two distinctly different categories, which almost precisely mirrors the schizophrenic quality of her personality.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On the one hand, there is her severely involuted psychological presence:  A short, dumpy, dour, rich,  Jewish, lesbian, intellectual, exiled,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/6462449392071209237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/6462449392071209237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199909340000#c6462449392071209237' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5020712388694766768</id><published>2008-01-09T10:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-09T10:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That Seattle bookstore never worked. It was in a v...</title><summary type='text'>That Seattle bookstore never worked. It was in a vague area of downtown, and the identity of the store was equally vague.  On the other end of Pike Place market you had Left Bank books with a very strong presence and strong identity as a left-wing bookstore with many anarchist titles, and fiction separated into men&#39;s and women&#39;s, and the people behind the counter were characters that you could </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/5020712388694766768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3374113790639412981/comments/default/5020712388694766768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html?showComment=1199892180000#c5020712388694766768' 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/2008/01/did-borges-invent-internet-mary-olivers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3374113790639412981' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3374113790639412981' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 09, 2008"/></entry></feed>