"A Confederacy of Dunces"

by a man who went to the college next to mine who committed suicide

10 "Actually, even riding in a car effects me enough." -Ignatius
11 "You told me that babe."
"The taxi back to New Orleans cost me $40." -Ignatius
13 "Oo-wee," the Negro said across the room."
"Will you shut up, Jones?" the sergeant called out.
"Okay," Jones answered.
...
"Say, I didn call nobody no cawmniss," Jones said. "I been frame by that flo'walk in Woolsworth. I don even like cashews."

37 "Big girls don't cry.
Big girls don't cry.
Big girls don't cry-yi-yi.
They don't cry.
Big girls, they don't cry . . . yi."
"Big girls don't cry.
Big girls don't cry."
38 Patrolman Mancusco knocked savagely at the shutters.
"Big girls don't cry.
Big girls don't cry."

54 "Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TV and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee."
The sunglasses watched the woman climb off the bus into a crowd standing at the bus stop.
55 "Blue and yellow eyes"


71 "Watch your tongue" -Lana to Jones
74 "Say, who you callin 'boy'?" ... "You ain Scarla O'Horror."

328 "...maybe this be your one and only chance to catch this act. Ooo-wee." -Jones
331 "Is this cretin Harlett O'Hara?" -Ignatius
332 Ignatius stumbled past Jones

356-7 Mrs. Levy's pants "You should at least go to Lenny's doctor for his sake. Once your case was in the psychiatric journals, they'd be inviting him to Vienna to speak. You'd make him a famous man just like that crippled girl or whoever it was put Freud on the map."
357 "A neglected Levy Pants ... plagued you."
384 Battaglia bawd
385 and wrap that one hemplike pigtail
390 "flesh."
392 Eliza crossing the ice with a particularly large genius in her arms. Like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Myrna was still around to offend.
394 that reflected their headlights. U.S. 11. ... Ignatius: Taking the pigtail in one of his paws, he pressed it warmly to his wet moustache.




126 letter: New Orleans to harangue me ... Library of Congress. The Negros...
194 "Dance? I don't feel like dancing with no old man." -Irene
290 Ignatius ... uniform ... Orpeheum ... money ... lunged into the Orpheum
298 "Ooo-wee. You better check it again."