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ananda

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14. We live in a new Confederacy of Dunces...

Reply to Swede (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 4, 2026, 09:33 PM

Jan 4

riffing off Swift.

Jonathan Swift's essay Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

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