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  1. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    Her logic was a combination of half-truths and clichés, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.
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  2. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    It was a neighborhood that had degenerated from Victorian to nothing in particular, a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly-and with very limited funds.
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  3. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    Patrolman Mancuso's love for the motorcycle was platonically intense.
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  4. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    From time to time the Chief of Staff, the President, and so on, dressed in sequins and feathers, will entertain the leaders, i.e., the perverts, of all the other countries at balls and parties. Quarrels of any sort could easily be straightened out in the men's room of the redecorated United Nations. Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did the grim, hostile, fascistic pronouncements of their former leaders."
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  5. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    I've gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food.
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  6. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs. Reilly's worst fears were realized.
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  7. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and world-view and mind.
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  8. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it.
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  9. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    Ignatius spent the day in his room napping fitfully and attacking his rubber glove during his frequent, anxious moments of consciousness.
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  10. John Kennedy Toole _ The Neon Bible

    When I was four Mother gave a party for some of the wives of the factory workers, and Aunt Mae came into the living room in the middle of the party wearing a dress that showed almost all her front, except for the nipples, which I knew you never could show. The party ended soon after that, and as I was sitting on the porch, I heard the women talking to each other as they left. And they were calling Aunt Mae all sorts of names like I had never heard before and really didn't know the meaning of until I was almost ten years old.
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  11. John Kennedy Toole _ The Neon Bible

    Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
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  12. John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces

    Of course," Ignatius said in a thoughtful, serious voice, "this could be a worldwide deception." The red sateen scarf rode up and down. "The next war could turn out to be one massive orgy. Good grief. How many of the military leaders of the world may simply be deranged old sodomites acting out some fake fantasy role? Actually, this might be quite beneficial to the world. It could mean an end to war forever. This could be the key to lasting peace.
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