<?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.post7319218263539615088..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/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.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>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9209808349574826244</id><published>2010-06-12T12:16:20.259-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-12T12:16:20.259-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you, Ron.&#xa;Rebecca</title><summary type='text'>Thank you, Ron.&lt;br /&gt;Rebecca</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/9209808349574826244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/9209808349574826244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276359380259#c9209808349574826244' title=''/><author><name>Radish King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/54/142341732_5c3580d6ba_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-597158701"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3939461404737993604</id><published>2010-06-11T09:12:29.578-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T09:12:29.578-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like Ballard&amp;#39;s prose. Its cool precision con...</title><summary type='text'>I like Ballard&amp;#39;s prose. Its cool precision contrasts nicely with the trippiness of its content. It puts me in mind of Kafka, who described bizarre events in lucid, lawyerly prose. (Imagine Seth Abramson recounting a nightmare.)And, as others have pointed out, Ballard wrote many gorgeous first sentences. Recently I gave a list of them to my nephew, whose fledgling attempts at fiction were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3939461404737993604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3939461404737993604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276261949578#c3939461404737993604' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 11, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3373599009576834472</id><published>2010-06-09T17:54:33.304-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T17:54:33.304-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&amp;#39;s the NYRB mention:&#xa;&#xa;Although Armantrout ...</title><summary type='text'>Here&amp;#39;s the NYRB mention:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although Armantrout has been associated over the years with Ron Silliman, Lynn [sic] Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and other prominent members of this group, her own views regarding language and what it can do are more conventional.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3373599009576834472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3373599009576834472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276120473304#c3373599009576834472' 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/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1682185875814663206</id><published>2010-06-09T13:20:56.840-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T13:20:56.840-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PKD might have used a bit more editing at times, a...</title><summary type='text'>PKD might have used a bit more editing at times, and  he doesn&amp;#39;t usually  provide some tight Disney-ish ending (as with Scanner Darkly--) yet at the same time the ..fragmentation, &amp;quot;kipple&amp;quot; the multiple perspectives, occasionally verging on incoherence, or like ...a bad trip--that&amp;#39;s part of his  vision.  Post-hiroshima, if you will. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compare to say the splattered day </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/1682185875814663206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/1682185875814663206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276104056840#c1682185875814663206' 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='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6493216435699276732</id><published>2010-06-09T12:45:09.521-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T12:45:09.521-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Most of the complaints re PKD&amp;#39;s writing are fr...</title><summary type='text'>Most of the complaints re PKD&amp;#39;s writing are from people who want, if not well-wrought urns, at least completed arcs in their books, some real sense of closure. So many of Dick&amp;#39;s books read like one book or story proposal on top of another, as if he was always generating something next. That they hold together at all is a miracle (and doesn&amp;#39;t happen that often). But I read the prose as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/6493216435699276732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/6493216435699276732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276101909521#c6493216435699276732' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7224294428670298349</id><published>2010-06-09T10:17:52.387-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T10:17:52.387-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Silliman is mentioned in an article by Charles Sim...</title><summary type='text'>Silliman is mentioned in an article by Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books, June 24, 2010, in connection with Rae Armantrout.  I saw this on paper because I am a subscriber.  I believe the article is available for free on NYRB website, but will go behind a paywall when the next NYRB comes out.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/7224294428670298349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/7224294428670298349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276093072387#c7224294428670298349' title=''/><author><name>מבול</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10217126520280829330</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/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1797418022"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4963488631656355400</id><published>2010-06-09T09:29:17.789-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T09:29:17.789-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PKD&amp;#39;s prose is not usually awkward, but a jarg...</title><summary type='text'>PKD&amp;#39;s prose is not usually awkward, but a jargon of sorts--mo&amp;#39; Merican than british.  The Man in the High Castle&amp;#39;s rather complex--think quantum Dash Hammett. Not space opera heroics ala Heinlein (or &amp;quot;PBS presents the best of Murder she Wrote&amp;quot;).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/4963488631656355400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/4963488631656355400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276090157789#c4963488631656355400' 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='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9040568985863608444</id><published>2010-06-08T16:43:56.104-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T16:43:56.104-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The linked-to 25 pages on the &amp;quot;discourse mark...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;The linked-to 25 pages on the &amp;quot;discourse marker&amp;quot; (aka word) &amp;quot;so&amp;quot; are a tremendous read.  What a wonderful world it might be if that kind of kind of close attention to language could happen all the time.  It inspires me to try to read poems -- those that have heightened attention to the functions of language as a part of their workings -- even closer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do think</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/9040568985863608444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/9040568985863608444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276029836104#c9040568985863608444' 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/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 08, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1638011433118050285</id><published>2010-06-08T16:31:55.665-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T16:31:55.665-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I happen to be reading Dick&amp;#39;s Palmer Eldritch ...</title><summary type='text'>I happen to be reading Dick&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Palmer Eldritch&lt;/i&gt; right now (just finished &lt;i&gt;The Man in the High Castle&lt;/i&gt;). I have to agree that Dick&amp;#39;s writing can be distractingly bad. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s not that the writing is grammatically incorrect. &lt;i&gt;To boldly go&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;to go boldly&lt;/i&gt; are both fine but have different meanings.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think &lt;i&gt;peer fixedly&lt;/i&gt;  would be more </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/1638011433118050285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/1638011433118050285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276029115665#c1638011433118050285' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Dillon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175884937968045605</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/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634681312"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 08, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4811972785674066016</id><published>2010-06-08T11:22:46.622-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T11:22:46.622-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some lit. snob complaining about a split infinitiv...</title><summary type='text'>Some lit. snob complaining about a split infinitive in Dick&amp;#39;s proto-cyberpunk writing (&amp;quot;to fixedly peer&amp;quot;) seems about the same as a lit. snob from a century ago complaining about Steven Crane&amp;#39;s use of dialect ...besides, Star Dreck reified the S.I... &amp;quot;to boldly go&amp;quot;, like the starcraft silliman in orbit</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/4811972785674066016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/4811972785674066016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276010566622#c4811972785674066016' 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='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 08, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5915255745128330109</id><published>2010-06-08T08:48:50.058-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T08:48:50.058-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mahon article is good. Wish there were more &amp;#...</title><summary type='text'>The Mahon article is good. Wish there were more &amp;#39;late bloomers&amp;#39; out there getting recognition: poetry improving with age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&amp;#39;s face it: nothing good&amp;#39;s written under 50!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/5915255745128330109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/5915255745128330109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1276001330058#c5915255745128330109' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 08, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3298235869504480027</id><published>2010-06-08T01:37:36.806-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T01:37:36.806-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Click here regarding &amp;quot;So?&amp;quot; (and the pdf ...</title><summary type='text'>Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnnyturtle.com/theexpiration.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; regarding &amp;quot;So?&amp;quot; (and the pdf linked article &amp;quot;Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker ‘so’ in English conversation&amp;quot; by Galina B. Bolden from the &lt;i&gt;Journal of Pragmatics&lt;/i&gt;).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3298235869504480027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7319218263539615088/comments/default/3298235869504480027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html?showComment=1275975456806#c3298235869504480027' title=''/><author><name>Johnny</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01476258528367931554</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/2010/06/why-is-gertrude-stein-so-important.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7319218263539615088' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7319218263539615088' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-711653258"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 08, 2010"/></entry></feed>