<?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.post4107355542494670710..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/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.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>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741054442651647797</id><published>2007-12-29T10:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-29T10:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The current emphasis in Cuba on Lezama and other w...</title><summary type='text'>The current emphasis in Cuba on Lezama and other writers that were ignored by the social realist editors is part of a general ‘official’ cultural shift over the last 15 years, perhaps related to the fall of the Soviet Union.  Lezama was allowed to publish in small editions during the 60s after the bureaucrats took years to deliberate over what to do, partially because he was already famous at the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/6741054442651647797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/6741054442651647797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html?showComment=1198943760000#c6741054442651647797' 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/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4107355542494670710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4107355542494670710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2214606350396883193</id><published>2007-12-28T21:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T21:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Great historical narrative with episodic mini-dram...</title><summary type='text'>Great historical narrative with episodic mini-dramatizations last night on PBS:  The pre-Christian period of the Iberian Peninsula--&quot;El Andaluz&quot; under Moslem occupation--during which Jew, Christian and Muslim ethnic groups lived in relative harmony for hundreds of years, until Rome decided to &quot;purify&quot; things and either killed or drove off the &quot;infidels.&quot;  Fascinating program.  Theorizing that the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/2214606350396883193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/2214606350396883193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html?showComment=1198894740000#c2214606350396883193' 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/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4107355542494670710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4107355542494670710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-701342239294675052</id><published>2007-12-28T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T13:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Berries of Ash Laid For Mutton JohnA yak-head scro...</title><summary type='text'>Berries of Ash Laid For Mutton John&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A yak-head scroll&lt;BR/&gt;for a faux pipa film-projector&lt;BR/&gt;cum tear&lt;BR/&gt;must also cry&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;essential Phoenician phoenixes&lt;BR/&gt;yoking dewdads&lt;BR/&gt;in toilsome mists&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cinnabard saddled Lophiomys imhausi&lt;BR/&gt;makes a rummage sail of addled&lt;BR/&gt;as the &#39;S&#39; is all virtual&lt;BR/&gt;haul the thyme&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and haul these yak-bearded&lt;BR/&gt;folk dolls&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/701342239294675052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/701342239294675052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html?showComment=1198866240000#c701342239294675052' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4107355542494670710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4107355542494670710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5183421111922773386</id><published>2007-12-28T08:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T08:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lezama&#39;s grand niece worked with me in Miamia. Lez...</title><summary type='text'>Lezama&#39;s grand niece worked with me in Miamia. Lezama&#39;s sister was alive and well at that time and I wanted to interview for miPOradio but never got the opportunity to do so. Now I can&#39;t. Lezama never left Cuba after the revolution and he wrote a poem about the hardships and in particular not having new shoes in Cuba and sent it to his family in Miami. I am not sure if that poem/letter is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/5183421111922773386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4107355542494670710/comments/default/5183421111922773386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html?showComment=1198847880000#c5183421111922773386' title=''/><author><name>Didi Menendez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08195202743154382432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yyMS6N_gKRg/R2HV46NnWJI/AAAAAAAAAfE/lvOOboq1HJk/S220/12_08_1.JPEG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/brand-new-image-of-melvin-b.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4107355542494670710' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4107355542494670710' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301407041"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 28, 2007"/></entry></feed>