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John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces
Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...
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John Kennedy Toole _ A Confederacy of Dunces