“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”
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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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. The world will someday get me on some ludicrous pretext; I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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