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Toole
« on: May 27, 2015, 01:12:06 pm »
I see the similarities between you and Toole.There IS a conspiracy to prevent you from reaching a larger readership.But I am begining to suspect that maybe "gorts" don't do it deliberately.I mean,in a determinstic world you were meant to be the kind of writer you are since the big bang.I know that I still hate the gorts,the capitalists.



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Re: Toole
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2021, 09:24:03 am »
From Words of Wisdom from Ignatius Reilly on John Kennedy Toole’s Birthday (from December 2012)

1. “Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”

2. He hated the modern era and found himself railing against it regularly:

“What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.”

Reilly even fancied himself something of a literary man.

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”


Part of the charm, the ridiculousness of Reilly is an absolute total state of arrogance:

“Stop!’ I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”

3. Reilly’s work ethic, for lack of a better word, is also comic. He himself gives a reason for his attitude toward employment:

“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.”

“I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.”


He has very little to be arrogant about, which is part of the reason we laugh both with and at Reilly.

See also New Orleans Would Have Its Bard Yet
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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“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.”-Toole

If I were as gifted as Toole,I might have phrased my sentiments in that fashion too.
Please allow me to elaborate:

I am unmarried and do not aspire to promotions. Most of my superiors ,almost all, and even my colleagues who belong to the same age group are married and aspire to promotions.

They would never accept that so many of them could be in the wrong in such fundamental spheres, so I end up being viewed as the wrong’un. Then, persecution,inevitably and naturally,ensues.

My very existence questions what they stand for,so they would really like me to disappear for good.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.