A confederacy of dunces 11:23 - Jan 26 with 616 views | dickythorpe | Anyone read this book? | | | | |
A confederacy of dunces on 11:25 - Jan 26 with 613 views | Darran | Is it about people of The Wirral? | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 11:27 - Jan 26 with 610 views | exiledclaseboy | The alternative title is “A History of Planet Swans”. | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 11:29 - Jan 26 with 599 views | NotLoyal | The sequel is being written as we speak by the stoke sentinel. | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 12:25 - Jan 26 with 560 views | GreatBritton | Yeah. Me. Not too many others though, I guess. Toole committed suicide because he thought no one would ever recognise his genius. I recognised it, bit it was too late for me to tell him. It's a brilliant book. Title is a line from Pope. | | | |
A confederacy of dunces on 13:23 - Jan 26 with 521 views | Lohengrin |
A confederacy of dunces on 12:25 - Jan 26 by GreatBritton | Yeah. Me. Not too many others though, I guess. Toole committed suicide because he thought no one would ever recognise his genius. I recognised it, bit it was too late for me to tell him. It's a brilliant book. Title is a line from Pope. |
The title is paraphrasing Swift, surely? | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 14:51 - Jan 26 with 475 views | londonlisa2001 |
A confederacy of dunces on 12:25 - Jan 26 by GreatBritton | Yeah. Me. Not too many others though, I guess. Toole committed suicide because he thought no one would ever recognise his genius. I recognised it, bit it was too late for me to tell him. It's a brilliant book. Title is a line from Pope. |
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A confederacy of dunces on 14:52 - Jan 26 with 474 views | londonlisa2001 |
A confederacy of dunces on 13:23 - Jan 26 by Lohengrin | The title is paraphrasing Swift, surely? |
Sorry Loh. Didn’t see this before I replied... | | | |
A confederacy of dunces on 15:13 - Jan 26 with 446 views | Highjack |
A confederacy of dunces on 13:23 - Jan 26 by Lohengrin | The title is paraphrasing Swift, surely? |
Haters gonna hate. | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 16:57 - Jan 26 with 403 views | Lohengrin |
A confederacy of dunces on 15:13 - Jan 26 by Highjack | Haters gonna hate. |
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A confederacy of dunces on 17:07 - Jan 26 with 397 views | Lohengrin |
A confederacy of dunces on 14:52 - Jan 26 by londonlisa2001 | Sorry Loh. Didn’t see this before I replied... |
No need to apologise, mun. I rather suspect GB knows full well that it was Swift, he just threw out a bait line laughing that Warwick, you or I would jump to nibble. Still nice to see Alexander Pope get a mention mind, probably his first on the site? Have you read the book, love? I actually bought and read it in New Orleans back in the ‘80s which wouldn’t have been too many years after publication. It was a useful, seedy guide to the Crescent City as I traipsed around trying, with varying degrees of success, to pass for a twenty one year old and get into the dive bars. | |
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A confederacy of dunces on 18:58 - Jan 26 with 357 views | londonlisa2001 |
A confederacy of dunces on 17:07 - Jan 26 by Lohengrin | No need to apologise, mun. I rather suspect GB knows full well that it was Swift, he just threw out a bait line laughing that Warwick, you or I would jump to nibble. Still nice to see Alexander Pope get a mention mind, probably his first on the site? Have you read the book, love? I actually bought and read it in New Orleans back in the ‘80s which wouldn’t have been too many years after publication. It was a useful, seedy guide to the Crescent City as I traipsed around trying, with varying degrees of success, to pass for a twenty one year old and get into the dive bars. |
I haven’t read it, but years ago, I saw a performance of it in one of those theatres above a pub somewhere in either Chiswick or Notting Hill. Can’t remember who was in it now, but from memory it was a one or two man show rather than a full adaptation. It must have been 25 or 30 years ago though. I was reminded of it recently when some list of ‘100 books you should read’ type thing came out and it was on there, but until this thread I forgot all about it again. I was more recently reminded of Pope as I had a drink in the Mawson Arms in Chiswick (the pub next door to the Fullers brewery) which used to be his house... | | | |
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