My stomach sank at reading the GP comment, to have missed the exact point the article was making. (I almost wonder if it was intentional?)

But then somehow it is so appropriate to DFW that an article about him becoming a caricature of a writer and bemoaning that speech in particular produced that particular comment, a sort of circular irony or something that I almost imagine he'd appreciate.

Actually kind of a meta-parody about the idea that no one's actually read IJ.

almost certainly not.