"Dear Mr. Mongoloid"
The Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:27:21 +0000 (GMT)
Aah, our Ignatius!
I have yet to begin a letter like this. But some day...
/TLM
>From: Paul Miller <pm@midsouth.rr.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: "A Confederacy of Dunces"
>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:17:57 -0600
>
>I have seen favorable mention from time to time on this list of "A
>Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. I have started an e mail
>discussion list concerning this book and any interested persons on
>Bananafish are welcome to join.
>Here is a little info:
>
>
>Group Description:
>This is a group for the discussion of the book "A Confederacy of Dunces" by
>John Kennedy Toole.
>The comedy of A Confederacy of Dunces is writ large in and between its many
>lines. The book is a grand brilliant farce. The Pulitzer committee thought
>highly enough of Toole's comic prowess to give his only novel the Prize
>posthumously. Therein lies the tragedy of this huge and hugely funny book:
>John Kennedy Toole didn't live to see this now-classic novel published. He
>committed suicide in 1969 at the age of thirty-two. It was his mother who
>was responsible for bringing his book to public light, pestering the hell
>out of Walker Percy, who was teaching at Loyola in 1976, to read it until
>finally that distinguished author relented. In his foreword to A
>Confederacy
>of Dunces, Percy laments the body of work lost to the world of literature
>with the author's death, but rejoices "that this gargantuan tumultuous
>human
>tragicomedy is at least made available to a world of readers."
>
>http://www.egroups.com/group/dunces/info.html
>
>
>Group email addresses:
>
>Post Message dunces@eGroups.com
>Subscribe dunces-subscribe@eGroups.com
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>List owner dunces-owner@eGroups.com
>
>
>Paul Miller
>
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