<?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.post5355746183573662809..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/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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value="November 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-359972915467313743</id><published>2007-11-13T11:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T11:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i always come away from reading something by maile...</title><summary type='text'>i always come away from reading something by mailer&lt;BR/&gt;mostly articles&lt;BR/&gt;with a sense that he was the consummate city writer&lt;BR/&gt;speaking from the street&lt;BR/&gt;the man looking from corner at the world&lt;BR/&gt;using the sounds and the language possibilities generated in the urban morass&lt;BR/&gt;and thereby establishing an&lt;BR/&gt;american language&lt;BR/&gt;he&#39;s not the only one for sure&lt;BR/&gt;but i think ron is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/359972915467313743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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value="November 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9012899327193331411</id><published>2007-11-13T02:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-13T02:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>without seeming like one&#39;s just trying to soundson...</title><summary type='text'>without seeming like one&#39;s just trying to sound&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;sonny, when i use a word or make one up, you can be damn sure i sound just like myself and picked that word for a reason, even if it was a bad one&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as writers we don&#39;t &quot;try to sound&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;we study language, are interested in it, fluent in it, to one extent or another, even if it&#39;s a fantasy&lt;BR/&gt;of fluency, and produce sound events, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/9012899327193331411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/9012899327193331411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194938460000#c9012899327193331411' 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/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6127002264859264047</id><published>2007-11-12T17:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T17:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So much for Seuss&#39;s Cat and the Hat and his 223 wo...</title><summary type='text'>So much for Seuss&#39;s Cat and the Hat and his 223 word vocabulary.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-Tom King&lt;BR/&gt;word verification= maoxob</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/6127002264859264047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/6127002264859264047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194907620000#c6127002264859264047' title=''/><author><name>Tom</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</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/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6019711794203555284</id><published>2007-11-12T15:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T15:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,As far as the &quot;great writers have big vocabula...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As far as the &quot;great writers have big vocabularies&quot; statement goes, there are clearly other &quot;tests,&quot; no?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Among your favorites, I think of Eigner, with his many small and common nouns).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I love learning words from &lt;I&gt;Ulysses&lt;/I&gt;, but it&#39;s hard to use a lot of them (&quot;adiaphane&quot; and such) without seeming like one&#39;s just trying to sound like a high modernist (given the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/6019711794203555284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/6019711794203555284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194899520000#c6019711794203555284' 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='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5240299087499647042</id><published>2007-11-12T15:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T15:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>to SEE what biograohy is all about..  try Norman M...</title><summary type='text'>to SEE what biograohy is all about..&lt;BR/&gt;  try Norman Mailer&#39;s  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and follow that-up w his  Marilyn&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thank s that someone at TIME is paying attention&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Polis Is This is for those who&lt;BR/&gt;    &quot;dig&quot;-it!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and (simply) notice what is not noticed by the herd!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;          Kokie-san</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/5240299087499647042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/5240299087499647042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194898980000#c5240299087499647042' title=''/><author><name>Ed</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='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/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7691017100935645432</id><published>2007-11-12T10:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T10:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mailer paragraph doesn&#39;t work at all, as you s...</title><summary type='text'>The Mailer paragraph doesn&#39;t work at all, as you say.  It&#39;s odd.  I think he&#39;s trying to get the sense of beautiful flow of important novelists, but doesn&#39;t have this naturally and is trying to fake it.  But it&#39;s a completely rotten passage.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What bothers me about Cormac McCarthy is that there is no sense of humor at all.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In Shakespeare not only is there an amazing vocabulary but</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/7691017100935645432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/7691017100935645432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194881640000#c7691017100935645432' 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/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4722472715575908522</id><published>2007-11-12T02:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T02:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Cormac McCarthy a too obvious addition to today...</title><summary type='text'>Is Cormac McCarthy a too obvious addition to today&#39;s Shakespearean vocabulary-expanding novelist set? Who are always a little aggressive and authorial, maybe. These authors expand vocabulary not so much as stewards who root out arcane language, but as coy scientists who reconfigure their &quot;new&quot; words and usages to only make you feel as if they always existed. Like the first person who put a clock </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/4722472715575908522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5355746183573662809/comments/default/4722472715575908522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html?showComment=1194853860000#c4722472715575908522' title=''/><author><name>Mike Young</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01125676207376106849</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='14' height='32' src='http://noojournal.com/mike/mike.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/last-time-i-saw-norman-mailer-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5355746183573662809' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5355746183573662809' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328579286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2007"/></entry></feed>