![]() ![]() In its squalid premises he seeks apply his acumen to the ignoble task of pursing trade. “With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy,” he declares in his treatise on the decline of the Western world, written on pads which he illustrates.įinally at the age of 30, forced by circumstance, Ignatius takes a clerical position at decrepit Levy Pants. He attends the cinema to observe the lewd and tawdry content of films purely to glean insights into the descent of culture. Ignatius mission is to act as truth teller for the 1960s. ![]() He speaks like so to a policeman: “This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft.” He is ashamed of his mother, who likes to drink and socialise, and she is beginning to tire of him. He dresses oddly, refuses to convert his university education into productive employment and lives with his mother in New Orleans. In John Kennedy Toole’s novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) (reissued in an illustrated edition by the Folio Society) Ignatius J. “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 ![]()
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