<?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.post4575878928087692653..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/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>32</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2758388660181714599</id><published>2010-02-22T16:35:24.830-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-22T16:35:24.830-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t Maoist, either</title><summary type='text'>Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t Maoist, either</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2758388660181714599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2758388660181714599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266874524830#c2758388660181714599' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2315722147602287230</id><published>2010-02-21T23:20:09.205-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T23:20:09.205-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I reread your post and realized that you aren&amp;#39;...</title><summary type='text'>I reread your post and realized that you aren&amp;#39;t saying disruption is always a good thing either, but that form has to somehow match the content of our days.  I agree with this.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2315722147602287230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2315722147602287230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266812409205#c2315722147602287230' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6671538641383430723</id><published>2010-02-21T10:10:04.635-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T10:10:04.635-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lacan WAS Maoist, as were all the members of Tel Q...</title><summary type='text'>Lacan WAS Maoist, as were all the members of Tel Quel, and J. has a point with Aragon.  but at the point Aragon became a Stalinist he was no longer a surrealist.  He had been a surrealist, and continued to use some surrealist techniques, but he was no longer a member of the surrealist group around Breton at the point at which he was a Stalinist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure that &amp;quot;disruption&amp;quot; is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/6671538641383430723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/6671538641383430723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266765004635#c6671538641383430723' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1680966838218314446</id><published>2010-02-19T17:41:03.401-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T17:41:03.401-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve been thinking of innovation in terms of &amp;...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve been thinking of innovation in terms of &amp;quot;horizontal&amp;quot; vs. &amp;quot;vertical.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horizontal innovation: the easiest example is scandal. This kind of difference is in regard to its culture&amp;#39;s rate of change, the current mores around art or in society in general. This is the innovation of &amp;quot;mere novelty,&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;the latest thing,&amp;quot; and it ages fast and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1680966838218314446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1680966838218314446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266619263401#c1680966838218314446' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5028669487314491114</id><published>2010-02-19T16:42:18.819-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T16:42:18.819-05:00</updated><title type='text'>+ Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t Stalinist, if anyone was buying...</title><summary type='text'>+ Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t Stalinist, if anyone was buying that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5028669487314491114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5028669487314491114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266615738819#c5028669487314491114' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1848639505626864638</id><published>2010-02-19T15:55:53.167-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T15:55:53.167-05:00</updated><title type='text'>//I have written before that any history of poetry...</title><summary type='text'>//I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably a history of change// &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As opposed to what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One might as easily observe that the history of literature is inevitably the history of words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;//an inevitable consequence is that the well-wrought urn is almost invariably a trivial accomplishment.//&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure how you&amp;#39;re using the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1848639505626864638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1848639505626864638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266612953167#c1848639505626864638' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4656990580859507590</id><published>2010-02-19T12:13:50.793-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T12:13:50.793-05:00</updated><title type='text'>J, Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t a Surrealist, Aragon left Surr...</title><summary type='text'>J, Lacan wasn&amp;#39;t a Surrealist, Aragon left Surrealism to be a Stalinist.. your point was to associate Surrealism with something bad whether it&amp;#39;s accurate or not</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4656990580859507590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4656990580859507590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266599630793#c4656990580859507590' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5134923166049206273</id><published>2010-02-19T11:49:02.683-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T11:49:02.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pat Boone?  You&amp;#39;ve got to be kidding, Sir Favi...</title><summary type='text'>Pat Boone?  You&amp;#39;ve got to be kidding, Sir Faville.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;#39;re invoking the corpse of Futurism here.  Given the historical &amp;quot;context&amp;quot;, in PC academic-speak,  d&amp;#39;Annunzio/futurism was hardly more sinister than the bolsheviks, maoists, or the Brits (Churchill gave his blessing to Il Duce, did he not..as did many lit. people not only Pound), or those nasty brownshirts...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5134923166049206273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5134923166049206273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266598142683#c5134923166049206273' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2051699954416300520</id><published>2010-02-19T11:35:25.716-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T11:35:25.716-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:&#xa;&#xa;My point wasn&amp;#39;t that Keats was innovativ...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point wasn&amp;#39;t that Keats was innovative or hackneyed...to what degree does anyone of us actually know how Keats&amp;#39;s verse &amp;quot;felt&amp;quot; when it was first being published?  I don&amp;#39;t think that sensibility can be recaptured.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My point WAS that what posterity &amp;quot;does&amp;quot; with you doesn&amp;#39;t change you--critics can change how we think about something, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2051699954416300520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2051699954416300520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266597325716#c2051699954416300520' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6028628845188110691</id><published>2010-02-19T11:28:05.897-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T11:28:05.897-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Boone was what he was.  The religious stuff is par...</title><summary type='text'>Boone was what he was.  The religious stuff is part of the man, but the voice was top notch.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good voice, like the skill to play an instrument, is 3/5&amp;#39;s god-given.  What one does with it&amp;#39;s another matter.  Practice helps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve never seen Boone dis anyone, or act out of his skin.  My guess is his producers and agents steered him toward those mild adaptations of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/6028628845188110691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/6028628845188110691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266596885897#c6028628845188110691' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5697472033115400462</id><published>2010-02-19T10:24:13.288-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T10:24:13.288-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Breton may have opposed stalinism at times, but th...</title><summary type='text'>Breton may have opposed stalinism at times, but that wasn&amp;#39;t the point, which like concerned......the phunn of winter sports! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;google Aragon for starters, Ian the poet.  then maybe look into Lacan&amp;#39;s doings. But like that would demand too much veracity, non??  surrealists  aren&amp;#39;t so interested in historical accuracy are they (and even St Trotsky&amp;#39;s hands are not free of  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5697472033115400462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/5697472033115400462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266593053288#c5697472033115400462' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7143789214499785174</id><published>2010-02-19T01:22:33.708-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-19T01:22:33.708-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Like you Ron, I am a big fan of Pat Boone. Sorry y...</title><summary type='text'>Like you Ron, I am a big fan of Pat Boone. Sorry you don&amp;#39;t mention him more often. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t know when he recorded Stones&amp;#39; songs – I remember of course all the Fats Domino and Bill Haley stuff that he did, though. And Tutti Frutti! What a disaster! Even the later heavy metal stuff, which I agree, was innovation only for its own sake–a &amp;#39;innovation of ther market&amp;#39; as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7143789214499785174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7143789214499785174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266560553708#c7143789214499785174' title=''/><author><name>Arthur Q. Bryan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HakneZ76Pf4/So8c3yFIjUI/AAAAAAAABSg/HIIMjXF4sgs/S220/goodman01_ArthurQBryan-live.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599458885"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4551843183005581723</id><published>2010-02-18T21:45:44.547-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T21:45:44.547-05:00</updated><title type='text'>J, The Surrealists opposed the Stalinists vehement...</title><summary type='text'>J, The Surrealists opposed the Stalinists vehemently.. maybe you should talk about things you know like how to be an anonymous race-baiter on the comments field&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curtis, Keats was called a poor craftsman all his life because he didn&amp;#39;t write the way he was supposed to, now people talk about his craft rather than his innovation.  The assertion that &amp;#39;this is not original, but is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4551843183005581723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4551843183005581723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266547544547#c4551843183005581723' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1852802252973559125</id><published>2010-02-18T20:52:23.473-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T20:52:23.473-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the Italian Futurists, who found themselves on the...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;the Italian Futurists, who found themselves on the luge to fascism ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as opposed to say the surrealists, beats and many other litschools who found themselves on the snowmobile to stalinism....at least d&amp;#39;Anunnzio could scribble a bit, along with..... daredeviling. d&amp;#39;A. also hung out with Debussy for some time, and later asked Il Duce not to pal up with nazis. &lt;br /</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1852802252973559125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1852802252973559125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266544343473#c1852802252973559125' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4061904706098358034</id><published>2010-02-18T17:51:05.536-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T17:51:05.536-05:00</updated><title type='text'>just stop writing I dare you</title><summary type='text'>just stop writing I dare you</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4061904706098358034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4061904706098358034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266533465536#c4061904706098358034' title=''/><author><name>stopitus</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03044555589885849196</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1819944744"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1163570845736503181</id><published>2010-02-18T14:38:30.080-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T14:38:30.080-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Okay. Let&amp;#39;s take seriously for a moment the id...</title><summary type='text'>Okay. Let&amp;#39;s take seriously for a moment the idea that poetry evolves—letting go, of course, of the &lt;i&gt;upwardness&lt;/i&gt; instilled in the evolutionary model by charts in textbooks (reversing Darwin&amp;#39;s own view of evolution as a &lt;i&gt;descent&lt;/i&gt;—but that&amp;#39;s another story). Each new creature arises out of genetic material preserved through the ages by natural selection. Pretty good material, in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1163570845736503181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/1163570845736503181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266521910080#c1163570845736503181' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4555417448727047980</id><published>2010-02-18T14:11:09.366-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T14:11:09.366-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I am concerned that your description of evolutiona...</title><summary type='text'>I am concerned that your description of evolutionary poetry as &amp;quot;something that occurs raggedly &amp;amp; in fits &amp;amp; starts&amp;quot; is both a metaphor for its conception but also its style, as though all evolutionary poetry has staccato sonic and visual constructions and/or contains disjunctive thought. Why couldn&amp;#39;t evolutionary poetry be something completely new and slickly composed? Surely</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4555417448727047980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/4555417448727047980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266520269366#c4555417448727047980' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14349982082048168288</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-35286894"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7360435432815286096</id><published>2010-02-18T13:48:03.308-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T13:48:03.308-05:00</updated><title type='text'>say Brooks,&#xa;&#xa;here is one of my &amp;quot;personal mani...</title><summary type='text'>say Brooks,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is one of my &amp;quot;personal manifestos&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;(for what it s worth)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#2230&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.flashpointmag.com/bakman.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which may speak to/skirt around (more or less) what what you posit (?)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7360435432815286096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7360435432815286096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266518883308#c7360435432815286096' 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='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3709817673855152072</id><published>2010-02-18T13:08:20.117-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T13:08:20.117-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Langpo, Flarf, and conceptual are all dramatic mon...</title><summary type='text'>Langpo, Flarf, and conceptual are all dramatic monolog</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3709817673855152072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3709817673855152072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266516500117#c3709817673855152072' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2954273041673632389</id><published>2010-02-18T13:01:36.618-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T13:01:36.618-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Innovation has its limits too, much as I like (lov...</title><summary type='text'>Innovation has its limits too, much as I like (love) it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the images at the head of the post illustrates my point.  That tear-dropped shaped three-wheeled car, with headlights perched about eight feet above the road and sporting, from the looks of it, no rear-view mirrors, doesn&amp;#39;t seem too practical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so an old-fashioned sonnet is sometimes all it takes to send </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2954273041673632389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/2954273041673632389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266516096618#c2954273041673632389' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8409193195216057107</id><published>2010-02-18T12:31:18.030-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T12:31:18.030-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This discussion certainly gives us food for though...</title><summary type='text'>This discussion certainly gives us food for thought.  I do think Silliman is right in that innovation does occur &amp;quot;raggedly &amp;amp; in fits &amp;amp; starts, is really the heart of writing practice, the pump that breathes life into verse &amp;amp; makes it relevant to our lives,&amp;quot; in other words, it isn&amp;#39;t really art if we aren&amp;#39;t risking anything, but there are questions of degree.  Risk </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/8409193195216057107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/8409193195216057107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266514278030#c8409193195216057107' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3430261055132121291</id><published>2010-02-18T12:21:33.949-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T12:21:33.949-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;I have written before that any history of po...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably as history of change in poetry&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is that what you meant to say&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;amp; by all means provoke, if you can...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3430261055132121291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3430261055132121291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266513693949#c3430261055132121291' title=''/><author><name>JVY</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09454432227420842094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1744523996"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3778772563228561304</id><published>2010-02-18T12:18:44.064-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T12:18:44.064-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m with Jordan.&#xa;&#xa;&amp;amp; I will repeat my mantr...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m with Jordan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;amp; I will repeat my mantra :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Poetry is avant-garde because it doesn&amp;#39;t change much.&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3778772563228561304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/3778772563228561304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266513524064#c3778772563228561304' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</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/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-353162001517482620</id><published>2010-02-18T11:54:57.064-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T11:54:57.064-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the point about &amp;quot;hybridization&amp;quot; ...</title><summary type='text'>I think the point about &amp;quot;hybridization&amp;quot; or imitation, or some combination of imitation and theft and pastiche is that what is made of what there is doesn&amp;#39;t affect the model.  Imitations of Keats don&amp;#39;t make Keats a lesser writer.  Ode on a Grecian Urn doesn&amp;#39;t become a bad poem because people love it, or because they wish they had written it, or as a result of (having emulated</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/353162001517482620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/353162001517482620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266512097064#c353162001517482620' 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/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7385857015513801885</id><published>2010-02-18T11:47:17.157-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T11:47:17.157-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the first occurrence of hybrid form is innovative....</title><summary type='text'>the first occurrence of hybrid form is innovative. it&amp;#39;s just that the *first* can never -really- be found. hybrid effort is communal.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7385857015513801885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4575878928087692653/comments/default/7385857015513801885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html?showComment=1266511637157#c7385857015513801885' title=''/><author><name>secrets</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16749371379759343657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lcIIRhj8TWs/SsosoSgJUfI/AAAAAAAAAFI/6AcBqFNt6SA/S220/gate.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/second-link-that-had-me-pondering-world.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4575878928087692653' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4575878928087692653' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1142080831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 18, 2010"/></entry></feed>