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Is Ignatious Reilly unironically the most based character of all time:

>keeps himself pure for marriage (pure virgin, much like those of Arthurian legend)
>reactionary intellectual
>well read
>BTFO's capitalist pigs
>BTFO's communist pigs
>BTFO's fascist pigs
>spends his days in sublime contemplation of the unknown

>> No.11539660

>>>>>>>r/books

>> No.11539705

>>11539657
yes

>> No.11540039

>>11539657
He's the omega-neckbeard
Seeing his little hunter's cap in a picture has me thinking - is he in some way a parody of Holden Caulfield?
I haven't read the book in ages so I can't say for sure if there's anything to that

>> No.11540043

>>11540039
>He's the omega-neckbeard
So Socrates

>> No.11540062

>tfw no Minka gf

>> No.11540084

>>11540062
Minka was an absolute cold super-whore. Worst gf possible.

>> No.11540132

Ignatius finds power in his immense fragility. He has understanding of social customs to such a degree that he is not personally bound by them, but can effortlessly exploit them (over whole crowds even) to his gain.

>> No.11540513

>>11539657
No but the book is unironically one of the most overrated of all time.

>muh hot dogs
>muh flatulence
>muh zany characters

>> No.11541063

>>11540513
shut up nigger, it was funny

>> No.11541068

>jerks off to the memory of his dog
>keeps himself pure

>> No.11541086
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>>11540043
>>He's the omega-neckbeard
>So Socrates

>> No.11541095

>>11540039
>omega neckbeard
>btfo's whores at every opportunity

ur beta af

>> No.11541104

Isn't Confederacy of Dunces the book that /lit/ wrote?

>> No.11541140

>>11539657
Ignatious is the one left laughing at us at the end of the day, since he ruins the business of the only job he had and gets off scot free, and then bails into the sunset with his old college friend in her beat-up Renault to relive his 20s because why not.

Ultimately, he never learned to be self sufficient or to make compromises, but that's a product of being a reactionary conservative.

>> No.11541192

>>11539657
Do the coloreds know how they are portrayed in this book?

>> No.11541435

>>11540513
It sounds like you didn't really understand it on more than a superficial level. It's not simply the cartoonish picaresque you appear to think it is, though you're not the first person to think that way which is why it's underrated if anything.

>> No.11541452

>>11541063
>>>/pol/

>> No.11541465

>>11541452
great gatekeeping, you sure showed him!

>> No.11541470

>>11541465
you have to go back

>> No.11541480

>>11541470
I literally have never bothered with other boards than this one

>> No.11541512

>>11541480
well that word you used is pretty telling of redittors

>> No.11541567

>>11541435
That dumbo probably didn't notice the subtle and deep themes in hitchhikers guide to galaxy and the alchemist as well lmfaooooo

>> No.11541598

>>11541512
>reddit
wow, oh no, he falsely accused me of visiting reddit, whatever will I do now? Call me a faggot?
Or is that out of bounds for your kind?