I am thirty, Ignatius said condescendingly. You got a job? Ignatius hasta help me at home, Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the c...
I am the avenging sword of taste and decency,
Here at any rate is Ignatius Reilly, without progenitor in any literature I know of—slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one—who is in viole...
For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books. You’re fantastic. I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His...
For Christmas, Mrs. Levy always compiled not a gift list but rather a list of the injustices and brutalities she had suffered since August. The girls got this list in their stockings. The only gift Mr...
Do you think that I have a problem? Ignatius bellowed. The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hairsprays. That why they are put away. They make the other m...
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start.
Already the lecture is beginning to interest several dedicated people I know. One person who has promised to come (and bring several sharp friends, too) is a brilliant new contact I made during rush h...
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
Ignatius, was you wearing that cap when you spoke to the insurance man? Of course I was. That office was improperly heated. I don’t know how the employees of that company manage to stay alive e...
من نمیخوام «نیمه پر» رو ببینم. خوشبینی باعث میشه حالت تهوع بگیرم. منحرفانهست. انسان بعد از هبوط این دنیا فقط لیاقت بدبختی رو داره.
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
Why did you step out of my life, you minx? Your new hair-do is fascinating and cosmopolitan. He snatched at her pigtail and pressed it to his wet moustache, kissing it vigorously. The scent of soot an...
The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
The Dr. Nuts seemed only as an acid gurgling down into his intestine. He filled with gas, the sealed valve trapping it just as one pinches the mouth of a balloon. Great eructations rose from his throa...
So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based u...
Saltando vigorosamente de costado, Ignatius percibió que ascendia por su garganta un eructo, pero cuando abrió esperanzado la boca, sólo emitió un leve soplido. Aun así, los saltos tuvieron ciertos ef...
Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
Miss O’Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.