<?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.post4821616588608101719..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/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9028790689799668902</id><published>2007-02-22T11:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T11:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wilde was a provocateur, an instigator.  His wit a...</title><summary type='text'>Wilde was a provocateur, an instigator.  His wit and entertainments were meant to divert, to unsettle, to shock.  He believed that by undermining the platitudes and presumptions of Victorian culture, he could validate his own emotional proclivities.  He offended society, and it punished him, just as &quot;society&quot; did (much less brutally) to Truman Capote 50 years later.  He also understood the value </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/9028790689799668902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/9028790689799668902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1172163060000#c9028790689799668902' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7931387337927776693</id><published>2007-02-16T16:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T16:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven, for the record I hadn’t read your post abo...</title><summary type='text'>Steven, for the record I hadn’t read your post about Children of Men while writing my comments on the same film, otherwise I would have agreed with your enthusiasm for the cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki and much of the acting (Caine, for instance).  I like much of Cuaron’s work, especially the voiceovers in Y Tu Mama Tambien where he records the reality that surrounds the delightfully </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/7931387337927776693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/7931387337927776693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171661280000#c7931387337927776693' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5364664996130834787</id><published>2007-02-16T15:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T15:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fish is the sign of Christ via St. Peter. Haven&#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Fish is the sign of Christ via St. Peter. Haven&#39;t read the book or seen the film, but someone on my blog also wants me to review this film.  Hmm.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/5364664996130834787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/5364664996130834787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171656840000#c5364664996130834787' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-410879540504059631</id><published>2007-02-16T13:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T13:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The third possibility presented in the film Childr...</title><summary type='text'>The third possibility presented in the film &lt;I&gt;Children of Men&lt;/I&gt;, as against the Fascist British government in the year 2027 and the rebel Fishes (a sly reference to Maoism?--the &#39;revolutionary dwells among the people like fish in the sea&#39;)is a humanism that need not be equated with Tony Blair&#39;s &quot;third way&quot;, though maybe having something in common with the thinking of the &#39;idiot&#39;, as per I. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/410879540504059631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/410879540504059631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171651620000#c410879540504059631' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1995548453646604034</id><published>2007-02-16T09:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T09:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wilde was a kind of anarchist wasn&#39;t he?  I found ...</title><summary type='text'>Wilde was a kind of anarchist wasn&#39;t he?  I found his book Man Under the Pinkie of Socialism in an anarchist bookstore.  It&#39;s been 25 years since I read it, but here&#39;s the Wikipedia summation:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Soul of Man under Socialism is an essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;NB: It would be interesting if I had another twenty yeas to study the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/1995548453646604034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/1995548453646604034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171635900000#c1995548453646604034' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7270275026411791365</id><published>2007-02-15T20:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T20:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zamyatin’s political perceptiveness cannot be unde...</title><summary type='text'>Zamyatin’s political perceptiveness cannot be underestimated, but it is difficult to characterize how he wanted ‘We’ to influence the course of Soviet history.  He was an earnest Communist activist but was imprisoned as early as 1922 in the same cell that the Tsarists put him in. Haven’t read a bio of him, but how this sarcastic, iconoclastic writer came to learn the cultural ways of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/7270275026411791365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/7270275026411791365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171589640000#c7270275026411791365' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8552871768774758738</id><published>2007-02-15T19:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T19:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I hope you will see (if you have not already ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I hope you will see (if you have not already seen)  &amp; review the dystopian cinematic masterpiece (imo) &lt;I&gt;Children of Men&lt;/I&gt;.  There may not be that much time left to see it in a theater (&amp; it&#39;s full of visual thrills best experienced on Ye Olde Big Screen)  but I think it&#39;s still playing in four theaters in NYC.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby, don&#39;t put your thumb on the scales. The title of the Oscar </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/8552871768774758738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/8552871768774758738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171585560000#c8552871768774758738' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2551864079661316166</id><published>2007-02-15T15:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T15:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;We&quot; was standard reading in Seattle anarchist com...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;We&quot; was standard reading in Seattle anarchist community in the 1980s.  The whole idea of the &quot;collective&quot; and the way in which it stomped on individual rights was again brought to the fore in the novels 1984 and in Brave New World.  Getting the formulation right (individual vs. the collective) seems to remain as a problem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Throughout the Seattle left the notion of a &quot;liberal&quot; was used </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/2551864079661316166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4821616588608101719/comments/default/2551864079661316166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html?showComment=1171572720000#c2551864079661316166' 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/2007/02/written-between-1919-1921-published-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4821616588608101719' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4821616588608101719' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2007"/></entry></feed>