A Confederacy of Dunces Condition:Good a schoolgirl is lured into

a schoolgirl is lured into the decadent world of her disreputable aunt

and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs

and largely unregulated investment vehicles—foreign sovereign wealth funds

the universe

with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene

A Confederacy of Dunces Condition:Good a schoolgirl is lured intoHere is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective. His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession