<?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.post4051676941615725446..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/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.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>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6258762505319128742</id><published>2007-03-06T18:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T18:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Humor will save your life, but you could still die...</title><summary type='text'>Humor will save your life, but you could still die of starvation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s something not quite funny about a person grinning ear to ear with a mouth full of blackened decayed teeth.  Humor works off pretention:  In order to laugh at someone else, you need to place yourself in either a superior or more critical position.  Otherwise you&#39;re laughing at yourself, or out of embarrassment.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/6258762505319128742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/6258762505319128742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1173222900000#c6258762505319128742' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3355331545216584243</id><published>2007-03-06T12:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T12:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>it takes a certain amount of not giving a shit to ...</title><summary type='text'>it takes a certain amount of not giving a shit to be convulsively funny; people like; davi det hompson, opal nations, ken friedman,ruth krauss (something else press),henry james korn,bob and bob,buster cleveland, o. nitsch*,lenny bruce.  All funny, none gave a shit. Difficult now not to give a shit, what with rising gas prices, escalating rents...Those with  do-rae- are too much part of the ever </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/3355331545216584243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/3355331545216584243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1173201000000#c3355331545216584243' title=''/><author><name>olgastamata</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04903202618195858141</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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1991341245"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1732303795334779446</id><published>2007-03-05T15:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T15:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t like Parabola.  I prefer the Lutheran Foru...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t like Parabola.  I prefer the Lutheran Forum, or the Lutheran Quarterly for theological issues.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In terms of contemporary lit-mags aside from Rolling Stock and Exquisite Corpse I used to like Michael Andre&#39;s Unmuzzled Ox. The idea of HUMOR seems to have escaped everyone since.  Even Elaine Equi isn&#39;t funny any more.  She used to be funnier.  Humor is either CONVULSIVE or not at all</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1732303795334779446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1732303795334779446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1173126600000#c1732303795334779446' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6180274332263801964</id><published>2007-03-04T00:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T00:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, other than the fact that I usually vote Demo...</title><summary type='text'>Well, other than the fact that I usually vote Democrat, or Green, I tend to agree with curtis and kirby on this one, on a few points. Conjunctions isn&#39;t so bad, as omnibuses go, but it is diffuse. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not signing on to the &quot;good old days&quot; and &quot;everything sucks now&quot; bandwagon, though, because I think that&#39;s just as hollow a pose as thinking that Ashbery will ever write anything new or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/6180274332263801964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/6180274332263801964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172985660000#c6180274332263801964' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07399620147907002735</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1119200278"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8131794378938108476</id><published>2007-03-03T00:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-03T00:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve never, ever heard of Conjunctions, but I&#39;m go...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve never, ever heard of Conjunctions, but I&#39;m gonna subscribe to it because Ron says it&#39;s good, and that&#39;s good enough for me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Besides, I&#39;m a big John Ashberry fan, as well as a big J.C. Oates fan, and since I&#39;ve never heard of it, and so have never read it, I consider myself excused from the sophisticated ennui so prevalent in the preceding comments.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m also a big fan of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/8131794378938108476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/8131794378938108476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172898240000#c8131794378938108476' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5110631042961132494</id><published>2007-03-02T18:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-02T18:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s hilarious about Snyder.  I think there is a...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s hilarious about Snyder.  I think there is a point at which Duchamp said he had to let go and just let himself be raped in order to provide enough money for his funeral.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On a more serious level: what journals does anybody reading actually subscribe to and look forward to coming out?  I admit that for me it&#39;s Reader&#39;s Digest and a few others along those lines.  The daily paper from </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/5110631042961132494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/5110631042961132494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172879040000#c5110631042961132494' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2556241721133921531</id><published>2007-03-01T22:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T22:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>b</title><summary type='text'>b</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/2556241721133921531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/2556241721133921531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172805960000#c2556241721133921531' 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='21' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Nose2_compressed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1814393505615234657</id><published>2007-03-01T15:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T15:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Peace and goodness.Hey! Great blog,Just surfed on....</title><summary type='text'>Peace and goodness.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hey! Great blog,&lt;BR/&gt;Just surfed on.&lt;BR/&gt;Mine are Muslim&lt;BR/&gt;Scratchings...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Come see.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;nuh ibn</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1814393505615234657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1814393505615234657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172782320000#c1814393505615234657' title=''/><author><name>nuh ibn zbigniew gondek</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02367991646220822545</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/x/blogger2/5520/171813988283030/220/z/609122/gse_multipart62930.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-831602499"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3682863696432099745</id><published>2007-03-01T15:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T15:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I&#39;m rolling in the aisles again....  Actual...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I&#39;m rolling in the aisles again....  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, if you think about it, you might just be right.  The articles by Woollcott and Thurber in the early New Yorker days are probably--at least from a serious academic position--much less interesting as cultural artifacts than the advertisements which accompanied their articles on those pages.  Students of advertising as a cultural </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/3682863696432099745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/3682863696432099745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172780700000#c3682863696432099745' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1994911917441839478</id><published>2007-03-01T15:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T15:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1994911917441839478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/1994911917441839478'/><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='21' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Nose2_compressed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7683657667455895903</id><published>2007-03-01T14:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T14:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m bored by this journal, too.  I think Curtis is...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m bored by this journal, too.  I think Curtis is right.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whenever I see it, I just feel like I&#39;m going to go into a coma.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know of any good literary journals now. I used to like Ed Dorn&#39;s Rolling Stock and of course Codrescu&#39;s Corpse, when they were both in paper.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But there&#39;s nothing good now that I know about.  All the journals seem to stink.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/7683657667455895903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/7683657667455895903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172777100000#c7683657667455895903' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8409635493112629125</id><published>2007-03-01T13:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T13:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Gee, not a single Latino writer in that issue.&quot;Inv...</title><summary type='text'>Gee, not a single Latino writer in that issue.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Invisibility, let me explain, gives one a slightly different sense of time...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--Guillermo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/8409635493112629125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/8409635493112629125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172772180000#c8409635493112629125' title=''/><author><name>GJPW</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13383940105241352465</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/15/68467430_c7c091b851_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-669631030"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4868452857946958738</id><published>2007-03-01T11:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T11:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not sure why Conunctions bores me.  Probably b...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not sure why Conunctions bores me.  Probably because it&#39;s too big.  That&#39;s kind of how I felt about Antaeus--which, though a somewhat more conservatively edited omnibus mag, mixed poetry and prose in about the same measure, and with the same result--that it really isn&#39;t that difficult to seem eclectic, if you have enough space.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The guiding principle behind a journal which pretends </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/4868452857946958738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/4868452857946958738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172767680000#c4868452857946958738' 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/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2619720995667212157</id><published>2007-03-01T09:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T09:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Never mind the names -- any work in the issue you&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Never mind the names -- any &lt;I&gt;work&lt;/I&gt; in the issue you&#39;d consider major? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I nominate Marcella Durand&#39;s lyric essay.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/2619720995667212157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4051676941615725446/comments/default/2619720995667212157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html?showComment=1172758260000#c2619720995667212157' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/it-is-sign-of-considerable-amount-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4051676941615725446' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4051676941615725446' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 01, 2007"/></entry></feed>