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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Silly distraction from Katrina 2

When someone asks you, "What do you do?" what do you say?
Do you feel like saying something silly, like "I'm a brassiere engineer"? Or "I sex chickens for a living"?
Here's a great answer from John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces, set in New Orleans. Via Mr. Sun.
To the question "What do you do?", Ignatius J. Reilly answers:
"I dust a bit. In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."

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