A Confederacy of Dunces: Chapters 7-9

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Here we are, deep inside of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, and this week conversation touches (once again) on Ignatius' intelligence, but then moves on to the various secondary characters that people this strange book, as well as talk about Boethius.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Close Reeds. I'm Heidi White. And I'm Tim McIntosh. And David Kern is sadly no longer with us. No, he's not dead. He is, he was having technical difficulties, Tim. It was really sad. He's burying his computer. He's not gone, but his computer
0:22.7	is soon. There has been a casualty of the show, but it's not David. Yeah. So far. And the way that his
0:28.3	computer was acting up before he, yeah, I think it hates him. Yeah, I think it hates him. I think it's a
0:33.5	saboteur, maybe a Confederacy of Dunce's saboteur?
0:39.1	I was going to say, I think that Ignatius J. Riley would have some choice words for David's
0:44.2	computer, for sure.
0:45.6	I think he would. I think he would.
0:47.9	Or, alternatively, maybe is, like his spirit is in David's computer.
0:53.3	Ooh, perhaps. computer. Ooh.
0:55.1	Perhaps.
0:56.0	Perhaps.
0:56.6	Yeah.
0:57.6	Yeah.
1:04.4	So we are about to talk about Tim and I, a Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool, and we are on part three, chapters seven through nine.
1:08.5	That is what we are going to talk about today.
1:10.7	Tim, any initial thoughts on this
1:13.2	section other than it's hilarity? Because I was laughing out loud, like crying at multiple points
1:18.3	in this section. I think the parts that are funniest to me is when Ignatius J. Riley is in the spotlight
1:26.1	and even more specifically when Ignatius J. Riley is in the spotlight, and even more specifically, when Ignatius J. Riley is writing.
1:31.1	Oh my gosh. Same, same. Same zies.
1:33.7	When he is, it's a little bit more, it's not just monologuing, but when he has time to address the reader and kind of give the full flowering of his vocabulary and just goes on some
1:46.3	rant against Myrna or like the commercial capitalistic overlords, you know, that have doomed
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