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This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.
John Kennedy Toole
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John Kennedy Toole
Age: 31 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 17
Died: 1969
Died: March 26
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Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
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I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.
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It's not your fate to be well treated, Ignatius cried. You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
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I refuse to look up. Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
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