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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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history
writing
dip
dunce
food
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
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work
job
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.
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humour
work
humor
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John Kennedy Toole |
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55ea93d
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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
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ass
curmudgeon
meatsacks
mouthbreathers
pronouncements
intellectual
pompous
attitude
sheep
satire
hilarious
contempt
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John Kennedy Toole |
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dea0b90
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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.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
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ignatious-j-reilly
new-orleans
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John Kennedy Toole |
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery."
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It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated..
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humour
writing
odors
stink
smells
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John Kennedy Toole |
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16e589c
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Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.
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work
morning
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John Kennedy Toole |
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d007c4a
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My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate facade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?" "Who? Oh, heavens no. I never even read newspapers." "Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may s..
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!
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John Kennedy Toole |
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It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you." --
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John Kennedy Toole |
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When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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dedee29
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I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.
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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.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.
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ignatius-j-reilly
new-orleans
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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Employers sense in me a denial of their values...They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns."
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humor
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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green ..
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John Kennedy Toole |
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But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get together to help other people out, like the time they got together about the woman who let a colored man borrow her car and told her the best place for her was up north with all the other nigger lovers, and the time they got the veterans with overseas..
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small-town-life
hypocrisy
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John Kennedy Toole |
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No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.
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movies
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John Kennedy Toole |
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I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh against the withered thighs of old white ladies in public conveyances a great deal and eliciting more than one shriek of panic. Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too brok..
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John Kennedy Toole |
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92287c1
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When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip
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John Kennedy Toole |