![]() ![]() It is a picaresque novel of epic proportions narrating the tale of an irritable Oliver Hardy, a perverse Thomas Aquinas and a vainglorious Falstaff, all rolled into one. He prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval philosopher Boethius in particular. He disdains modernity which becomes an obsession and he makes painstaking efforts to mock their perversity and express his outrage with the contemporary world's lack of theology and geometry. He contains the sacred and the profane expressing his disdain for popular culture through scatological humor. This desire thrust on him escalates into a set of lunatic adventures, yet each having its own eerie logic that only Don Quixote can empathize with. He celebrates unemployability succumbing now and then to his mother's pleas to find himself a steady job. Frequent predictions emerge paying homage to his pyloric valve signifying an insubstantial emptiness even before his words reach the realm of common parlance. ![]() Eccentric, idealistic and unhinged in the eyes of the world, he opines his thoughts often prophesying like Cassandra. Meet the 'Every man' in Ignatius Reilly of Southern United States. ![]()
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