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John Kennedy Toole’s Edgelord Confederacy w/ Dan Baltic

Art of Darkness

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The Dramatic Irony of Dances

Dances is in the tradition of Quixote and well all novels are in some sense in the tradition. Nutcranker has this concept of dramatic irony I think that's where actually a lot of today's humor comes from. Even something like Palanuk and Fight Club is very humorous there is a lot of humor in PalanukYeah yeah yeah this just a sense that like the reader and you the author know that what is happening is insane but the characters they are just you know players on the stage right right and they don't know umBut yeah to go back to Dances that's one of the reasons why I like it thematically and uh stylistically but also there was

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