A Confederacy of Dunces is an intellectually engaging novel by the deceased author John Toole Kennedy. Ultimately I adore this book for its zany creativity, stark originality, and downright incredibleness. This book exudes an aura of academic unrationality. By this I mean the novel is quite logical. The wacky happenings and theories appeal to judgment but not common sense. At times this book seems theoretical, speculative, and hypothetical. This presence is evident in some of the plot twists Kennedy has chosen to include. One of them is how Ignatius starts to believe the world would do better with having