The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
John Kennedy TooleStichwörter: fear
It will all end very badly, Gus
John Kennedy Toole...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.
Stichwörter: humor work humour employment
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 and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
Stichwörter: humor writing humour odors smells stink
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
John Kennedy TooleStichwörter: new-orleans
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
John Kennedy TooleWhoa! If I'm gonna be a doorman, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doorman ever guarded a plantation. Ooo-wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa!
Stichwörter: a-confederacy-of-dunces jones toole
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
John Kennedy TooleCanned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
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My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
John Kennedy TooleStichwörter: ignatius-j-reilly
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