A  Confederacy of Dunces by American novelist John Kennedy Toole was first published in 1980 …

“I read someplace in the paper where they got plenty comuniss at college.”

“Well, fortunately I didn’t meet them. Had they crossed my path, they would have been beaten to within an inch of their lives. Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia aquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking up rocks or whatever it is people are always doing in those blighted countries?

“What I want is a good strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life,”

“A king? You want a king?”

“Oh stop babbling at me.”

“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” Johnathan Swift.