Rich Inner Death
As John Kennedy Toole’s timeless comedy A Confederacy of Dunces opens, his hero, Ignatius J. Reilly, is sitting in a department store in a state of near euphoria. Why? He is transfixed by his own superiority to the mass of humanity around him. Their clothing constitutes “offenses against taste and decency.” By contrast…
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