<?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.post6482772836481545764..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/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.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>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2236465457848417384</id><published>2008-10-28T05:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T05:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;&#39;s wonderful , for me, to learn so much about G...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;&#39;s wonderful , for me, to learn so much about George Stanley. I remember so  long past when ago reading Dhalgren where I first came across George Stanley&#39;s words, in the following quote acting as one of the epigrams, if I recall rightly to the novel &quot; You have confused the true and the real.&quot; A comment which has not left me nor has it left me empty of thought since then about its significance.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/2236465457848417384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/2236465457848417384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1225185360000#c2236465457848417384' title=''/><author><name>Clifford Duffy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05408377959125651878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9wGAGIjZta4/SQAEp1SUs9I/AAAAAAAAAG0/Yz_nxziVLsg/S220/1913russolointonarumori9cb.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-135704438"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7934448110428897966</id><published>2008-10-24T20:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T20:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This made me think of Apollinaire&#39;s &quot;Windows&quot;:Etin...</title><summary type='text'>This made me think of Apollinaire&#39;s &quot;Windows&quot;:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Etincelant diamant&lt;BR/&gt;Vancouver&lt;BR/&gt;Ou le train blanc de neige et de feux nocturnes fuit l&#39;hiver&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Glittering diamond&lt;BR/&gt;Vancouver&lt;BR/&gt;Where the train white with snow and lights flashing through the dark runs away from winter&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;from &quot;Calligrammes&quot; translated by Anne Hyde Greet&lt;BR/&gt;----&lt;BR/&gt;I recently watched &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/7934448110428897966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/7934448110428897966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1224894720000#c7934448110428897966' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</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/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1693697292436358559</id><published>2008-10-24T15:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T15:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am not certain that geography is all-determining...</title><summary type='text'>I am not certain that geography is all-determining.  Mexico on one side of the Rio Grande suffers from its not having been part of the Reformation, like all Spanish colonies. On the other side, you have a prosperous and thriving REformation country, in which the economy if functioning, and the law still works as of now.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Culture seems to outperform geography.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Geography is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/1693697292436358559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/1693697292436358559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1224875760000#c1693697292436358559' 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/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7658028896656757210</id><published>2008-10-23T19:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T19:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I feel compelled to mention that, in my opinion, G...</title><summary type='text'>I feel compelled to mention that, in my opinion, Gerry Gilbert&#39;s &quot;Moby Jane&quot; is the best book by a Vancouver poet; the poem &quot;Reading&quot; (in the same volume) the greatest poem about Vancouver. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyways, thanks for mentioning Gerry Gilbert, a lamentably lost presence in our scene here.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/7658028896656757210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/7658028896656757210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1224802980000#c7658028896656757210' title=''/><author><name>Weldon Gardner Hunter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15950975808834755829</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com/archives/110706weldon.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1901285686"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-156311736336311914</id><published>2008-10-23T17:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T17:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Folsom Cave versus Chandler&#39;s Valley... who would ...</title><summary type='text'>Folsom Cave versus Chandler&#39;s Valley... who would win?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/156311736336311914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/156311736336311914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1224796920000#c156311736336311914' 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/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1902581436571328074</id><published>2008-10-23T09:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T09:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t know the relationship between Stanley and...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t know the relationship between Stanley and Liddy was so close. Or probably I&#39;d just forgotten. I studied with Liddy in the 80s, in Milwaukee, was part of his &quot;circle&quot; for a few years at Axel&#39;s Bar there, until I said something improper concerning the Provisional IRA, as I recall. Banished, at 21, or so. He&#39;s a fascinating figure and a tremendous poet. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His decades-long companion,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/1902581436571328074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6482772836481545764/comments/default/1902581436571328074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html?showComment=1224769500000#c1902581436571328074' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2008/10/in-his-pulitzer-winning-guns-germs-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482772836481545764' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6482772836481545764' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry></feed>