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John Kennedy Toole’s Edgelord Confederacy w/ Dan Baltic

Art of Darkness

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The Confederacy of Duns' Dan

He was dismayed by the liberal brand of narrow-mindedness he discovered in New Orleans. He had a cultural commitment to Roman Catholicism it was as much a part of him of him as his fair complexion and he couldn't understand why he should suffer scorn because of it Emily Griffin I think one of his students once went to observe him teach oh no is another professor who noticed that he scrawled on the blackboard quote anti-cathalism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual. During his early career as an academic he was valued on the faculty party circuit for his wit and gift for mimicry. It's not like there's we're not going out of our this is not

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