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>I'm a monarchist

how does it feel to have your entire life ridiculed for more than 300 pages?

>> No.11815578

>>11815572
Reddit is not this site.

>> No.11815582

>>11815578
shut the fuck up hegelian

>> No.11815598

>>11815572
What?

>> No.11815634

Monarchy is the best form of government

>> No.11815737

>>11815634
thats a bold assertion

>> No.11815744

>>11815634
Except for all the others

>> No.11815746
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11815746

People need to be put in their place for their own good and also technological development

>> No.11815956

>>11815572
It's a loving self-parody

Ignatius is a comic exaggeration of what Toole perceived as his own worst qualities, like Skimpole in Bleak House or Kafka's protagonists

While you can frame the book as a liberal critique of reactionaries, in reality the author was a reluctant Catholic (i.e. a spiritual monarchist) who based the structure of Dunces on the same ancient medieval text he has Ignatius celebrate

Toole recognized his own reactionary tendencies as unrealistic and often generated by personal inadequacies, but what makes the book so funny is that Ignatius has legitimate and relatable intellectual objections to his world

>> No.11815966

>>11815956
It still amazes me that people can read this book with such an absurd caricature as Myrna Minkoff and think that the only punchline this book has is "lol reactonaries"

>> No.11815972

>>11815746
>Jews promoting biological monarchism

>> No.11816010

>>11815572
monarchy is the best but only if i am a monarch