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the possibility of sincerity depends upon its becoming dialogic in chracter, always requiring a response from the other to bring it into play

Wallace demonstrates with comic brio in the short stories in Brief Interviews

a second problem with the hermeneutics of suspicion

Wallace's artistic method for dealing with this infinite cycle--this mirror or bind or aporia--involves a complex, contemporary logic

It is important to note here Trilling's contention, pace Donald Davie and others