3. Podhoretz: "Many men have a strong impulse to masturbate when they are about to start on a piece of writing." Me: Speak for yourself, bud
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4. The entire passage is an extended discussion of writing & erections (with an St. Augustine citation for
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5. Re-reading Making It, I realized I had blocked out how often Podhoretz compares writing to achieving an erection (block=impotence)
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6. Podhoretz is of course a monster of self-regard, so masturbation metaphors are apt.
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7. I have more thoughts on Podhoretz here:https://newrepublic.com/article/141524/norman-podhoretzs-war-haters-losers …
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8. I don't think people fully understand the size of Podhoretz's ego. It's one of the wonders of the world, as sublime as the Grand Canyon.
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9. According to Podhoretz when he started writing for the New Yorker, it was an "extraordinary event" of national significancepic.twitter.com/8rGnZvxenm
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10. Podhoretz gave up literary criticism because writers of his time (Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Baldwin) not good enough for his talent
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11. Podhoretz's politics are his egoism write large. Nationalism (America is greatest country evah) just narcissism (I'm greatest) extended
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12. Ultimately Podhoretz is a prophetic figure. In 1967 narcissism of Making It was widely mocked. Now it's the governing ideology of USA
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13. Podhoretz: An outer borough boy who used shameless self-promotion to impress Manhattan elite (which despised him). Also Trump.
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14. For Podhoretz humanity divides into 2: winners (those who "made it" like him) versus haters/losers (poor, women, gays, blacks, etc).
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15. Podhoretz's self-love (masturbatory or not) is the Rosetta Stone for understanding conservatism, I argue here:https://newrepublic.com/article/141524/norman-podhoretzs-war-haters-losers …
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