green hunting hat
pmiller@memphisonline.com
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:31:12 -0600
> I bought a hunting hat last winter--green
> though--and I have been known to wear it backwards. It can give a nice
> Holden feel to an otherwise cold day.
>
> Bye,
> Susan
Green hunting hat! Mmmmm lets see that does ring a bell in 20th century
letters. Pulitzer prize winning " A Confederacy of Dunces " by John
Kennedy Toole I think. In this book the main character, and I do mean
character, Ignatius Reilly wears a green hunting hat through the whole
book. The first two lines in the book: " A green hunting hat squeezed
the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of
large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears
themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two
directions at once."
For those who dont know the story, Tooles mother after 11 years of
effort finally got the book published. Unfortunatly this was 11 years
after her sons suicide. The book was rejected by publisher after
publisher but won the Pulitzer, ... go figure.
Paul