Author: John Kennedy Toole

Cites

• A. J. Liebling (1)
  • IN: A Confederacy of DUNCES (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "You're right on that. We're Mediterranean. I've never been to Greece or Italy, but I'm sure I'd be at home there as soon as I landed." He would, too, I thought. New Orleans resembles Genoa or Marseilles, or Beirut or the Egyptian Alexandria more than it does New York, although all seaports resemble one another more than they can resemble any place in the interior. Like Havana and Port-au-Prince, New Orleans is within the orbit of a Hellenisitic world that never touched the North Atlantic. The Mediterranean, Carribean and Gulf of Mexico form a homogeneous, though interrupted, sea.
    FROM: The Earl of Louisiana, (1961), Book, US
• Jonathan Swift (1)
  • IN: A Confederacy of DUNCES (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
    FROM: "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting", (1706), Essay, US