/lit/ - Literature

>>7387403
Listen to this, OP. Everyone will be impressed the massive intellect of such a man! You'll be crawling in real women who prefer gentlemen instead of boys!

>>6577469
Let's not kid ourselves here.

>Ignatius Reilly
I understand your pain.
I went through a sort of ego-death when I read that book in highschool.
Close friends are always telling me that I remind them of Harry Potter, but I can't seem to finger whether they mean the dramatic ne'er-do-well Daniel Radcliffe Potter or the nerdy pushover.
Probably closer to the latter.
I'm garbage either way.

Sometimes I close my eyes and envision Ignatius berating me

>>6241877
claiming this thread in the name of ignatius

A Confederacy of Dunces was one of those reads that you could finish in a day and then for the remainder of that day (and maybe a couple days after it) your conscious thoughts would flow like pages from that book in one of those dull-headachey-stream-of-consciousness/out-of-body hazes induced by intense eye strain over a long period of time.

Ignatius