ellauri042.html on line 644: Part of Pope's bitter inspiration for the characters in the book come from his soured relationship with the royal court. The Princess of Wales Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II, had supported Pope in her patronage of the arts. When she and her husband came to the throne in 1727 she had a much busier schedule and thus had less time for Pope who saw this oversight as a personal slight against him. When planning the Dunciad he based the character Dulness on Queen Caroline, as the fat, lazy and dull wife. Pope's bitterness against Caroline was a typical trait of his brilliant but unstable character. The King of the Dunces as the wife of Dulness was based on George II. Pope makes his views on the first two Georgian kings very clear in the Dunciad when he writes 'Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first'.
ellauri095.html on line 242: Hilja Haahdenkin ois kannattanut lukea Duns Scotusta. Mutta se ei osannut latinaa, eikä Dunce suomea. Kielivaikeudet ovat aina esteenä. Haaste ainakin, liikennepomppumainen hidaste.
ellauri198.html on line 595: While to the left, a tall scalped mountain... Dunce, Ne tuuppii toisiaan ihan ihanasti,
ellauri360.html on line 311: Dunces Glaudeonzalo /fuga de JB [JB:n saaga/lento]
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'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

xxx/ellauri122.html on line 822: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' was written 11 years after Toole committed suicide. Ignatius O'Reilly is a 30-year-old man living with his mother in New Orleans, who comes into contact with many French Quarter characters while searching for employment. Though comical, there is a deep streak of melancholy that runs through Reilly's character, and Toole's ability to combine these two aspects beautifully won him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981. The moral (as usual): everybody is the Steven of his or her own life. A complete turd. Supposedly funny. Parochial baloney.
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