make fun of fat people make fun of policemen make fun of mothers make fun of black people make fun of Italians make fun of Hispanics make fun of people with bad
breath make fun of
ridiculous tacky costumes make
fun of trained birds make fun of
New Orleans make fun of rich
people make fun of poor people make fun of the South make fun of the United States make fun of academics make fun of poor grammar make fun of philosophy make fun of fate make fun of alcoholics make fun of women make fun of men make fun of street vendors make fun of hot dogs make fun of gay people make fun of peace make fun of names make fun of clothes make fun of dead people make fun of hair color make fun of makeup make fun of dentures make fun of the 1960s make fun of the French Quarter make fun of the Irish Channel make fun of middle-aged people make fun of old people make fun of dead dogs make fun of shotgun houses make fun of fancy houses make fun of Uptown make fun of Downtown make fun of jaundice make fun of sex make fun of pornography make fun of teenagers make fun of movies make fun of American
Bandstand make fun of causes make fun of politics make fun of Jews make fun of writing make fun of pretentiousness make fun of Tulane make fun of New York make fun of religion make fun of rambling make fun of laziness make fun of self-improvement of other people make fun of motorized exercise boards make fun of making pants make fun of filing cabinets make fun of business make fun of old buildings make fun of fathers make fun of white people make fun of therapy make fun of hoarders make fun of profanity make fun of strippers make fun of Gone with the
wind make fun of daughters make fun of the Confederacy make fun of sons make fun of Catholics make fun of husbands make fun of wives make fun of making shorts make fun of the English
language make fun of saints make fun of failure make fun of parishes make fun of people with too much time make fun of sickness make fun of bars make fun of Bourbon St. make fun of the newspaper make fun of marriage make fun of making fun make fun of movie audiences make fun of fun make fun of making money make fun of car accidents make fun of owing money make fun of Big Girls Don't Cry make fun of letter writing make fun of obsessive people make fun of political protest make fun of the church make fun of poor grammar make fun of overblown grammar make fun of teachers make fun of students make fun of waitresses make fun of mental illness make fun of libraries make fun of accents make fun of arbiters of literary taste make fun of movie stars make fun of hospitals make fun of the 20th
century make fun of Greyhound make fun of Louisiana make fun of universities make fun of employment make fun of thirty-year-olds make fun of D. H. Holmes make fun of psychology make fun of books relieve my mind of this movie relieve my imagination of this matrix relieve my brain of this map relieve my heart of this love relieve my soul of this prayer relieve my fingers of these words make fun of punctuation make fun of writing "Claude? Who in the world is Claude."
BLAKE & QUAKERS
9 months ago
What is this from? (And is it really all that offensive?)
ReplyDeleteHi Glenn, John Kennedy Toole thought that if A Confederacy of Dunces was ever published, he would never be allowed to live in New Orleans again. It was what we would now call politically incorrect, and I used the phrase "sufficiently offensive" because that's the kind of thing Ignatius would have said (as a compliment). But to answer your question, this cloud came from my own brain, after my recent 3rd reading of the book, which I wanted to do after reading the new Toole biography, Butterfly in the Typewriter, by Cory MacLauchlin. And after 4 years of working in the archives in Jones Hall. It may seem that sometimes I have an unhealthy obsession with dead people, but on a good day I think of it more as paying respects to the people who came before. Most of them deserve respect, and I am especially amazed with JK Toole and his writings. Here I am giving my impression of what was swirling around in his mind before starting to write the novel, when he was in Puerto Rico teaching English. I couldn't sleep much this week! thanks, sp
Deletethis Lucky Dog vendor was at the 2012 French Quarter Festival... sp
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting post! I love the picture
ReplyDeletethanks Cloudia, how nice of you to take a look at this. I appreciate your comment. sp
Delete