NOT P but DFW on Updike

[David Morris]

Whoever the speaker is, he sounds like a prig.  Lust seems to make his
guilty conscience lash out with projection.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 5:33 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe this means that the speaker---DFW in the piece---cannot appeal to
> Updike's (good, laudable) intentions
> in defending him [to these others who are so....unforgiving]
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 10:49 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's review of John
> > Updike’s *Toward the End of Time*:
> >
> >        “Just a penis with a thesaurus.”
> >        “Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?”
> >        “Makes misogyny seem literary the same way Rush makes fascism seem
> > funny.”
> >        And trust me: these are actual quotations, and I’ve heard even
> worse
> > ones, and they’re all usually accompanied by the sort of facial
> expression
> > where you can tell there’s not going to be any profit in appealing to the
> > intentional fallacy or talking about the sheer aesthetic pleasure of
> > Updike’s prose. None of the other famous phallocrats of Updike’s
> generation
> > — not Mailer, not Exley or Roth or even Bukowski — excites such violent
> > dislike.
> >
> > Does the "Rush" here refer to Rush Limbaugh?
> >
> > Also, what does "appealing to the intentional fallacy" mean here? Where
> is
> > this "intentional fallacy" exactly?
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