<?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.post6635112931974493001..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/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.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-2098361174048066336</id><published>2007-11-11T10:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T10:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mailer was the freak combination of Matthew Arnold...</title><summary type='text'>Mailer was the freak combination of Matthew Arnold style moralist and street punk, intellectual adventurer and qualified conservative, a defender of traditional literary virtues and a restless self-reinventor and innovator of form, all of this topped off that he was a motor mouth that was brash, generous, arrogant, self effacing, blustering and richly eloquant all in the same spoken paragraphs he</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/2098361174048066336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/2098361174048066336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194794940000#c2098361174048066336' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://www.tedburke.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8100929837865041446</id><published>2007-11-10T23:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T23:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One by one the old lions slink off into the bush t...</title><summary type='text'>One by one the old lions slink off into the bush to die.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mailer was a veteran of many a lit&#39;ry war, and fought several to a draw.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;An old-fashioned macho rationalist who had no patience with muley-puking apologists.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He threw his lot in time and again with ephemeral causes and campaigns.  Probably forfeited a half dozen opportunities to write novels, in order to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8100929837865041446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8100929837865041446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194754680000#c8100929837865041446' 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/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4546157868565373683</id><published>2007-11-10T15:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T15:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso said somewhere that he hated Norman Mailer b...</title><summary type='text'>Corso said somewhere that he hated Norman Mailer because all he ever wanted to do was arm wrestle.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/4546157868565373683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/4546157868565373683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194727260000#c4546157868565373683' 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/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2127474316196240520</id><published>2007-11-10T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T15:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A fine writer he was, at many times... and for all...</title><summary type='text'>A fine writer he was, at many times... and for all his macho nonsense, one of the world&#39;s great talkers, perhaps the last of a particular breed of highly articulate and much-needed loudmouths.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/2127474316196240520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/2127474316196240520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194725760000#c2127474316196240520' 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/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3375328538052663363</id><published>2007-11-10T15:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T15:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>At his best he was very good indeed. Executioner&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>At his best he was very good indeed. Executioner&#39;s Song is a masterpiece.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/3375328538052663363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/3375328538052663363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194725400000#c3375328538052663363' title=''/><author><name>Tom Beckett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08956557701199101102</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/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1611280848"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7492123016588300760</id><published>2007-11-10T14:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T14:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>still remember norman mailer&#39;sgruff voice out on m...</title><summary type='text'>still remember norman mailer&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;gruff voice out on michigan avenue at the 1968 chicago&lt;BR/&gt;un-democratic party convention...&lt;BR/&gt;norman said he wanted to address his comments to the troops...&lt;BR/&gt;the hundreds of national guard&lt;BR/&gt;in tight formation a few yards&lt;BR/&gt;away...he asked the troops to think deeply into their own consciences before they followed any orders.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a young soldier </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/7492123016588300760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/7492123016588300760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194724620000#c7492123016588300760' title=''/><author><name>e b bortz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10699593136231380850</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/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2056763724"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8111449175090270390</id><published>2007-11-10T09:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T09:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mailer&#39;s last published piece appeared on October ...</title><summary type='text'>Mailer&#39;s last published piece appeared on October 23, 2007, in the Moscow-based Exile. It&#39;s an &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13450&amp;IBLOCK_ID=35&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/A&gt; about Evander Holyfield vs. Sultan Ibragimov in Moscow, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;[...]&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the writer and the boxer were tired, together, like their country, unable to muster much at all in the face of one </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8111449175090270390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8111449175090270390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194705540000#c8111449175090270390' title=''/><author><name>Linh Dinh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810</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/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1957330200"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8030779361683550437</id><published>2007-11-10T09:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-10T09:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Very sad. Whatever anyone might think, he was hone...</title><summary type='text'>Very sad. Whatever anyone might think, he was honest and fearless, and wrote some brilliant books (Of A Fire On The Moon, The Executioner&#39;s Song...). Also very funny. His description of Bush is perfect: &quot;A man who has never been embarrassed by himself.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8030779361683550437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6635112931974493001/comments/default/8030779361683550437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html?showComment=1194703500000#c8030779361683550437' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-1923-2007.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635112931974493001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6635112931974493001' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 10, 2007"/></entry></feed>