<?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.post7323721070566695342..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/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>40</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8976221360265259134</id><published>2009-05-29T20:36:11.339-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T20:36:11.339-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When he left Trinidad full time for teaching posts...</title><summary type='text'>When he left Trinidad full time for teaching posts in the US in the 70s his political change and stylistic stagnation took hold permanently, to the point where Ron would be inclined with justification to describe him as &quot;the canonic comprador poet to the British Empire.&quot; By the late 70&#39;s/ early 80&#39;s he was commemorating the Reagan Revolution by dedicating poems to Mark Strand and Tony Hecht, one </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8976221360265259134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8976221360265259134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243643771339#c8976221360265259134' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1189756620011044149</id><published>2009-05-29T20:32:06.704-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T20:32:06.704-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It will be interesting to see where Walcott goes f...</title><summary type='text'>It will be interesting to see where Walcott goes from here and if he comes to write anything of note. His transformation into a figure helpful to the literary Third Way was coaxed in the US, not Britain, sidetracking any residual belligerence towards Trinidad’s colonial claimants. It helped the Anglophone SoQ that Africans in Trinidad didn’t face the worst the UK had to offer, as the crown </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1189756620011044149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1189756620011044149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243643526704#c1189756620011044149' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8081139071819597767</id><published>2009-05-29T20:28:46.811-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T20:28:46.811-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Zachariah, Your characterization of your original ...</title><summary type='text'>Zachariah, Your characterization of your original position would be more convincing if the original position wasn’t there for us to read; it joins each of your historical recollections in its inaccuracy. What’s funny is that Ron only originally stated that the SoQ was a combination of old-fashioned tendencies. If he meant to imply that Walcott’s practice of grading female students based on sexual</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8081139071819597767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8081139071819597767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243643326811#c8081139071819597767' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-703831761324988632</id><published>2009-05-29T12:29:37.615-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T12:29:37.615-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For any interested readers, I&#39;ve posted an &#39;Inside...</title><summary type='text'>For any interested readers, I&#39;ve posted an &#39;Insiders&#39; Note&#39; on my blog.  I am an American doing graduate work in poetry here at Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://susanjbarbour.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best wishes,&lt;br /&gt;Susan</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/703831761324988632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/703831761324988632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243614577615#c703831761324988632' title=''/><author><name>Susan J. Barbour</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01260566878750905590</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5JQwj6fNFtY/SZdPw_b7AyI/AAAAAAAAABE/2gm0ts05DBM/S220/Susan+Pink.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-80565612"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-288005201097399821</id><published>2009-05-29T06:51:59.817-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T06:51:59.817-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, I don&#39;t know if I can make my position any mo...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, I don&#39;t know if I can make my position any more clear than I already have, but here goes. Nothing Ron Silliman has said in the past about the character flaws and/or misdeeds of Olson et al is relevant. The point I&#39;m making is that he would never yoke their misdeeds to their aesthetics, as he has with Walcott. And he would be right in this, because there is no positive correlation. None. Zip.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/288005201097399821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/288005201097399821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243594319817#c288005201097399821' title=''/><author><name>Zachariah Wells</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_WZtd0PpGGKI/R8iYzWXja9I/AAAAAAAAAKE/8GecaFrVbm8/S220/zachatzekes.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-303228146"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1473871923366880389</id><published>2009-05-28T20:05:52.029-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T20:05:52.029-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Upon reflection I think many are right here: It is...</title><summary type='text'>Upon reflection I think many are right here: It is dangerous to equate a general poetics to a specific social/political/ethical situation. What has been lost is the crucial sentiment that &quot;women students, encouraged by feminism, insisted on the right to control their own bodies.&quot; More importantly, we have become aware of the complicated ideologies involved in &quot;the laying on of hands and trips [as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1473871923366880389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1473871923366880389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243555552029#c1473871923366880389' title=''/><author><name>Rob Budde</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14194044084965758225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0MmOato4Mqc/SPeVISNZGxI/AAAAAAAAAIA/CTLGMpAh0W8/S220/rob+sketch.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1558098825"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6404941070040936645</id><published>2009-05-28T20:04:36.816-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T20:04:36.816-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You folks (Zachariah and Stephen) may want to read...</title><summary type='text'>You folks (Zachariah and Stephen) may want to read this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/rachel-blau-duplessis-has-fascinating.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&#39;s much more commentary on gender problems relating to Olson in the archives here.   The unspecific citation of Pound&#39;s &#39;improprieties&#39; has not been commented on - a figure which Ron has been mostly critical of - and I don&#39;t know or</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6404941070040936645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6404941070040936645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243555476816#c6404941070040936645' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9032188333603938283</id><published>2009-05-28T15:22:30.455-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T15:22:30.455-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Or, in addition to what Zacharia mentioned, if we ...</title><summary type='text'>Or, in addition to what Zacharia mentioned, if we apply Ron&#39;s perhaps dubious logic that might also double for illogic, &quot;to everyone equally&quot;, a dismissal of not only Olson, but most of the population of the earth over the course of time, is probably merited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The laying on of hands and trips is simply something humans do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or, I know I do, and have.  My friends all do.  Not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/9032188333603938283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/9032188333603938283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243538550455#c9032188333603938283' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Ellis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04631977938279345258</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ty-JgIEh0eI/SX5Q4EB7JfI/AAAAAAAAAA4/7vVnAINx68g/S220/SE+copy.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1476746596"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-876366863354070907</id><published>2009-05-28T12:59:10.094-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T12:59:10.094-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am&#xa;for&#xa;&#xa;one&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;and&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;onr&#xa;for&#xa;&#xa;all&#xa;&#xa;hanging&#xa;on&#xa;eve...</title><summary type='text'>I am&lt;br /&gt;for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;one&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;onr&lt;br /&gt;for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hanging&lt;br /&gt;on&lt;br /&gt;every&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;word&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;expounding and manifesting on this fundamental message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;form is empty, emptiness is form, form is form, emptiness is empty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the question is  did Louis knock-up Lorine?  or do we revise </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/876366863354070907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/876366863354070907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243529950094#c876366863354070907' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8841009712346047331</id><published>2009-05-28T12:50:31.811-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T12:50:31.811-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Teach me to trust my memory, in which Olson died i...</title><summary type='text'>Teach me to trust my memory, in which Olson died in 1960. Anyway, I&#39;m by no means suggesting Olson should be criticised as a writer for his behaviour away from the desk. I&#39;m saying that if we apply Ron&#39;s (incredibly dubious) logic about Walcott to everyone equally, a dismissal of Olson is equally merited.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8841009712346047331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8841009712346047331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243529431811#c8841009712346047331' title=''/><author><name>Zachariah Wells</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_WZtd0PpGGKI/R8iYzWXja9I/AAAAAAAAAKE/8GecaFrVbm8/S220/zachatzekes.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-303228146"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6084810627789291473</id><published>2009-05-28T12:16:43.121-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T12:16:43.121-04:00</updated><title type='text'>surely in general SOQs of either gender are more p...</title><summary type='text'>surely in general SOQs of either gender are more physically attractive than SONs,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and would therefore have more opportunities for such liaisons . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6084810627789291473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6084810627789291473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243527403121#c6084810627789291473' title=''/><author><name>knott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848525067425082815</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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1665046687"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6966368956363332325</id><published>2009-05-28T10:48:49.326-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T10:48:49.326-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gotta love conspiracy theories!  The &quot;SoQ&quot; has cha...</title><summary type='text'>Gotta love conspiracy theories!  The &quot;SoQ&quot; has chapters and card-carrying members... secret handshakes, too, no doubt!!  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;Look, the Oxford candidates weren&#39;t even nominated by poets, let alone &quot;S-o-so-calledQ&quot; poets.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I meant Palin, not Padel in my comment above.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6966368956363332325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6966368956363332325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243522129326#c6966368956363332325' title=''/><author><name>Doodle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04995332885940017913</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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7858541934337213559</id><published>2009-05-28T10:22:14.450-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T10:22:14.450-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Charles Olson died in 1970, at the age of 60, from...</title><summary type='text'>Charles Olson died in 1970, at the age of 60, from liver cancer.  Olson was married twice, I believe, and widowed once.  Olson was a boisterous character, an alcoholic, impulsive and demonstrative, and very complex.  Listen to tapes of him reading or talking, to get a sense of it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should we ask poets from an earlier age, which accepted the subjugation of women as a cultural given, to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/7858541934337213559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/7858541934337213559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243520534450#c7858541934337213559' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8974463150286811195</id><published>2009-05-28T09:57:56.965-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T09:57:56.965-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Zacharia,&#xa;&#xa;Olson died in 1970.&#xa;&#xa;It occurs to me th...</title><summary type='text'>Zacharia,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olson died in 1970.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It occurs to me that anyhow, after a time, everyone reforms as persons, because physical exhaustion extends and reforms one&#39;s &quot;tools.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being &quot;fucked over&quot; in the meantime is simply another kind of magazine in some unknown, useful person&#39;s Waiting Room.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8974463150286811195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8974463150286811195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243519076965#c8974463150286811195' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Ellis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04631977938279345258</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ty-JgIEh0eI/SX5Q4EB7JfI/AAAAAAAAAA4/7vVnAINx68g/S220/SE+copy.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1476746596"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1880278478996776494</id><published>2009-05-28T08:43:23.336-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T08:43:23.336-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who cares if the SOCK exists or not?  Poets should...</title><summary type='text'>Who cares if the SOCK exists or not?  Poets should go barefoot.  All these partisan &quot;defenders&quot; of supposed tendencies are card-carrying members of the Blowing Smoke School.  Guardians of Deluded Mediocrity in Art.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1880278478996776494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/1880278478996776494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243514603336#c1880278478996776494' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5741661391066860537</id><published>2009-05-28T07:09:02.424-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T07:09:02.424-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ian Keenan,&#xa;&#xa;I ain&#39;t obfuscatin nothin. Ron S...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ian Keenan,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I ain&#39;t obfuscatin nothin. Ron Silliman is trying to make the case that Walcott&#39;s alleged improprieties in the 1980s are analagous to, if not directly caused by, his alleged aesthetic affiliations. If this be the case for Walcott, why would it not be so for poets Ron likes better, such as Olson or Pound? Or is 1965 the back door here, since Olson was dead by then? </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/5741661391066860537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/5741661391066860537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243508942424#c5741661391066860537' title=''/><author><name>Zachariah Wells</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02241595894807722933</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_WZtd0PpGGKI/R8iYzWXja9I/AAAAAAAAAKE/8GecaFrVbm8/S220/zachatzekes.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-303228146"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8681638839104489602</id><published>2009-05-27T19:27:44.645-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T19:27:44.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Nobel Committee granted Walcott a laureate ins...</title><summary type='text'>The Nobel Committee granted Walcott a laureate instead of the more socially and stylistically important and experimental Caribbean poets Cesaire and Depestre and got a boorish professor in the bargain.  Still, it does take a SoQist to engage in character assassination on a fellow poet on the eve of a professorship award.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron has correctly cited the phenomenon of the literary </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8681638839104489602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8681638839104489602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243466864645#c8681638839104489602' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8023800351365154174</id><published>2009-05-27T18:06:58.832-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T18:06:58.832-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t suppose I should be surprised, having spen...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t suppose I should be surprised, having spent a number of years around literature departments and faculty-student parties, but it still astounds that such nominally gifted people retain the capacity act like weasels. The tragedy is that their talent with language, such as it is, seems to mostly to have assured both Walcott and Padel that weaselness is okay, even nobel.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8023800351365154174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/8023800351365154174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243462018832#c8023800351365154174' 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='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-954198733983504679</id><published>2009-05-27T16:01:28.867-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T16:01:28.867-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I won a prize for poetry  once..&#xa;&#xa;but I was wearin...</title><summary type='text'>I won a prize for poetry  once..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but I was wearing a full-boddhi condom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the one int the green sack&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and didn&amp;#39;t feel a thing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now&lt;br /&gt;I&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nakedly&lt;br /&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;unabashedly&lt;br /&gt;practice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;unprotected poetry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my (cute) muse&lt;br /&gt;the new one &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her sex is arched&lt;br /&gt;across the sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which goes to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/954198733983504679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/954198733983504679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243454488867#c954198733983504679' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6569839981924296608</id><published>2009-05-27T14:50:42.917-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T14:50:42.917-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t see how an &quot;election&quot; in which the elector...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t see how an &quot;election&quot; in which the electorate consists solely of people holding Oxford degrees and who vote in person for people nominated only by Oxonians, can be a reflection upon any &quot;school&quot; other than that of Oxford University.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6569839981924296608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6569839981924296608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243450242917#c6569839981924296608' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-348529647908636120</id><published>2009-05-27T14:21:14.401-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T14:21:14.401-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m a little concerned that this story is used as ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m a little concerned that this story is used as a jumping point for a different agenda. Does a poetics defined by technical blandness necessitate moral corruption now, too?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/348529647908636120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/348529647908636120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243448474401#c348529647908636120' title=''/><author><name>1979</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14174646144633349862</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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-841041804"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5171958244528657001</id><published>2009-05-27T14:12:16.529-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T14:12:16.529-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Now that the professoriat is tipping gender-wise i...</title><summary type='text'>Now that the professoriat is tipping gender-wise it doesn&#39;t mean that the corruption is going down with it -- an article in the UK Guardian a few years back talked about what they called the &quot;Jorie Graham rule&quot; which came into play after she had (according to Foetry, among other sources) judged her paramour to be the winner of a contest, and from there gone on so that they are now teaching side </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/5171958244528657001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/5171958244528657001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243447936529#c5171958244528657001' 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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' 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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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4933304725705954256</id><published>2009-05-27T13:49:36.020-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T13:49:36.020-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i guess i don&#39;t get it&#xa;i mean did walcott phuq pad...</title><summary type='text'>i guess i don&#39;t get it&lt;br /&gt;i mean did walcott phuq padel&lt;br /&gt;or did she simply phuq herself&lt;br /&gt;in attempting to phuq him&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thinking about ethics&lt;br /&gt;in retrospect&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a new law of carnal physics&lt;br /&gt;every action has an amazingly&lt;br /&gt;disproportionate reaction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that love&lt;br /&gt;was it not free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oxen hauling in the shame&lt;br /&gt;and the blame&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so much </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/4933304725705954256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/4933304725705954256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html?showComment=1243446576020#c4933304725705954256' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2009/05/ruth-padel-quits-oxford-post-explains.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7323721070566695342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7323721070566695342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6474214468389818733</id><published>2009-05-27T13:08:55.625-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T13:08:55.625-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The comment that the evidences of a certain ethic ...</title><summary type='text'>The comment that the evidences of a certain ethic at Oxford were indicative to some degree of ineptitude on the part of the players, also suggests that &quot;we&quot; (ahem) could not only &quot;do it better&quot; in terms of the actual crime and cover-up, but, that we&#39;d even want to. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we really prefer to think ourselves more capable of ugly power-plays, than to modestly continue doing our own work, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7323721070566695342/comments/default/6474214468389818733'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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