#A Confederacy of Dunces

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The cashier was real funny, he said, “I’m sorry sir, but that’s sold out.” I laughed and replied, “Yeah right.”

*Coppola’s not wrong: America is an empire on the verge of collapse and it will crumble sooner than later. His heart’s in the right place for sure. Yet that doesn’t stop him from making a garish af ersatz looking movie with questionable decisions (aesthetic and otherwise) throughout. And as usual Adam Driver is about as interesting as watching paint dry. Shia LeBuff is unintentionally funny just from how utterly stupid he looks. This movie’s a hot mess though and I often thought of that scene from A Confederacy of Dunces when Ignatius J. Reilly’s yelling at the movie screen, “What is this abomination before me!?” 💩🎥

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' “Hey, how you making?” Miss Inez asked. “How you feeling, darling?” “Not so hot,” Mrs. Reilly answered truthfully. “Ain’t that a shame.” Miss Inez leaned over the glass case and forgot about her cakes. “I don’t feel so hot myself. It’s my feet.” “Lord, I wisht I was that lucky. I got arthuritis in my elbow.” “Aw, no!” Miss Inez said with genuine sympathy. “My poor old poppa’s got that. We make him go set himself in a hot tub fulla berling water.” “My boy’s floating around in our tub all day long. I can’t hardly get in my own bathroom no more.” “I thought he was married, precious.” “Ignatius? Eh, la la,” Mrs. Reilly said sadly. “Sweetheart, you wanna gimme two dozen of them fancy mix?” “But I thought you told me he was married,” Miss Inez said while she was putting the cakes in a box. “He ain’t even got him a prospect.” '

'(from 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole)

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Rereading the novel. And now I want a hot dog.

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CPAC refuge

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“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.” - John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces.

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A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

3.5.2023

I’d first read this almost exactly 10 years ago (I checked a facebook status). I remember being perplexed by it’s popularity and not finding much humour in it, but nevertheless wanted to reread it – and this second time around I had the EXACT same response. A tedious farce, I’m still perplexed. 

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