Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the incurable reader, but not the kind of incurable reader that Ignatius J. Riley is for better incurable readers.

Which, of course, brings me to the little, the fact, the well-known fact at this point that we are here to discuss

a Confederacy of Dunces featuring Ignatius J. Riley and written by John Kennedy Tool. We are here

to discuss the end of this particular novel. Another fact that I have a feeling quite a few listeners

are pleased about. So we're going to discuss the end of this novel.

Next week, of course, we'll do the Q&A. And then after that, we're going to do one episode on Henry Green's

Loving. And we're going to do some end of the year podcasts. And then that will be 2021 here on Close Reads. Tim, Heidi. This is the first time in a few weeks that we've had the three of us on together at the same time to discuss this book.

I think we should just celebrate that for a moment here.

Maybe have a moment of silence for our...

That would be so awkward for our listeners.

All right. Well. Well done. all right well well well done we nailed that i was a little i was a little antsy i just kept thinking about pascal

tim tim looked very comfortable in that moment of silence though didn't he he did

he went in his like stage director.

Power pause.

How are you?

Power pause.

Power pause.

Not to be confused with power pause like PAWS.

Jay Riley's power pause.

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