RES: [UA] Really Weird Dream (city sentience)

[pete lenz]

> >In John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces, New
> Orleans comes off as a
> >sentient character. It's not an overtly UAble book,
> having nothing really to
> >do with the occult, but it has this incredible UA
> vibe. All the characters
> >are strange, yet human, and there's a pervasive
> sense of 'how does this
> >story move forward with everyone so inept?' It's a
> great book.
> 
> Yeah, especially if you know the story ABOUT the
> book (and it's author) as
> opposed to just the story that's IN the book.
> 
> -G.

There really is an interesting story behind CoD(heh).
John Kennedy Toole was an interesting character(almost
as much as Ignatius)The biography of Toole -Ignatius
Rising- is quite an interesting read. The story about
the books publication is also. I believe in its most
current U.S. publication(CoD) Walker Percy does an
intro that explains the tragedy behind the publication
of the novel. It is rather touching. 

Best,

Pete

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