Zany vocabulary & eclectic quotes of wisdom from Ignatius J. Reilly

Appreciation for the enigmatic “Confederacy of DUNCES” by John Kennedy Toole

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” — Jonathan Swift “Thoughts on various subjects, moral and diverting””

A Confederacy of Dunces

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“In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”

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• abasement — the action or fact of abasing or being abased; humiliation or degradation
• abstruse —…