A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?”

Merchants and charlatans gained control of Europe, calling their insidious gospel “The Enlightenment.

the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

“Oh, Jesus, walk by my side, / Then I always, always be satisfied.” “That really sounds rather stirring,” Ignatius observed.

The incident reminded me of the time in Poe Park when this squirrel I was feeding turned out to really be a rat which at first glance could have passed for a squirrel any day.

“Oh, is that all? From the expression on your face, I thought that you were having some sort of epileptic seizure,”

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. —Milton