/lit/ - Literature

I see this lil nigga in everyone now (including myself). People are so comically haughty and self important.

I see this lil nigga in everyone now (including myself). People are so comically haughty and self important.

What are your thoughts on Ignatius Jacques Reilly, the larger than life protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces?

>>22957655
This sensitive young man did it best.

>>22905447
Society declined when they stopped teaching theology and geometry. Imagine what Boethius would say if he saw modern education.

>There Ignatius stood like the boy on the burning deck. The music rose from the tabernacle once again. Dorian fled to speak with a group of his guests, actively ignoring Ignatius, as was everyone else in the room. Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. The shock and terror had made him wet his pants, and no one in the laboratory would notice him, not even the instructor, who hated him sincerely for similar explosions in the past. For the remainder of that day, as he walked soggily around the school, everyone had pretended that he was invisible. Ignatius, feeling just as invisible standing there in Dorian’s living room, began feinting at some imaginary opponent with his cutlass to relieve his self-consciousness.
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