A Confederacy of Dunces Condition:Good the universe

the universe

he finds himself forced to make an impossible choice: to abandon his flock or his God

and through meticulous and sensitive reporting we see her subjects fall in love

” he says

with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene

A Confederacy of Dunces Condition:Good the universeHere is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective. His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession