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John Kennedy Toole’s Edgelord Confederacy w/ Dan Baltic

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The Paranoia of Ken Stovall

Ken Stovall's humor had become more pointed and political in the sixties. He would start thinking that cars passing in the street outside their house at night were stalking them. Later he would see a doctor to try and get medicated for like some his nerves they didn't know what to do with these things back then but he would get very paranoid. His mockery of religion upset some of the young women in the class who did not see the humor in making fun of how fast nuns could say the rosary although his classes remained full of devoted followers Ken's acid wit was playing the wrong crowd.

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