Ignatius

Ignatius J. Reilly


Here is the statue of the aforementioned Ignatius J. Reilly. Two things about Ignatius are that he sold pants at Levy Pants and hot dogs out of a cart in the FQ. Not to mention the fact that he was EXTREMELY gassy.

A Confederacy of Dunces was written by a guy called John Kennedy Toole. Toole was a gay wreck of a man who killed his self prior to finding someone willing to publish his book. So, as a sort of tribute, his mom took his manuscript and went searching to and fro for someone to publish her son's book. Finally, she found a publisher and now we have the funniest character in fiction history - Ignatius J. Reilly.

Toole wrote one other book as a youth, The Neon Bible, and it's good as well but for different reasons (i.e., it's not funny). This, too, was published post-mortem.

My friend Julee told me that Drew Barrymore recently purchased the film rights to A Confederacy of Dunces. Allegedly, Will Farrell has been cast as Ignatius. I like Will Farrell, but he seems slightly too unfat to be Ignatius. They'll probably stick him in a fat suit.