A Confederacy of Dunces
"Hot dogs, ladies?" Ignatius asked pleasantly.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
“the admirable clearness of your reason produces in my mind a sentiment which I trust I shall not offend you by describing as an aspiration to punch your head. You irritate me sublimely.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves—that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune’s cruelest agents as well.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.