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A Confederacy of Dunces

Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is ac

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John Kennedy Toole (3)

“Employers sense in me a denial of their values, they fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe.’”

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“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

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“A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head.”

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