Friday, January 19, 2007

Dunce fever

What did you think was the book's funniest moment or moments?
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9 comments:

Erin said...

Probably my favorite bit was the "Crusade for Moorish Dignity." I'll post some choice lines when I've got my book in front of me.

10:20 AM, January 19, 2007
Ben said...

I was talking to a friend yesterday about the book, and she said she had tried to read it but couldn't get into it. So I read her the Plymouth-meets-balcony scene. It's one of my favorites, and it's near the beginning, so it doesn't give too much away or require too much explanation.

12:30 PM, January 19, 2007
kc said...

I really enjoyed (1) his interactions with his mom and (2) how she would commiserate with her new friends about what a worthless son he is. (but the latter was sort of poignant, too, because at the same that she would acknowledge the truth of what her friends were saying about Ignatius you could still glimpse a certain motherly loyalty to him).

12:33 PM, January 19, 2007
kc said...

I don't get how some people don't see the humor in it. You might not find the situations especially funny, but how can anyone with even a modest appreciation of language and characterization not be delighted? That will never cease to amaze me.

I am beginning to suspect that the people who don't get it are the same people who think "The English Patient" was a really great movie.

(Apologies — though not very heartfelt — to anyone here who falls partially or wholly into the above category).

12:39 PM, January 19, 2007
Ben said...

I also really like the scene with Dorian Greene and Ignatius when they are out on the street planning the party.

11:15 PM, January 19, 2007
george said...

I think I liked the correspondence between Ignatius and Myrna the most. They made the oddest couple, but definitely fun.

11:35 PM, January 19, 2007
kc said...

Oh yes! I adored their correspondence. I longed for my own offensive minx to be a penpal.

1:14 AM, January 20, 2007
Ben said...

Sirs:
I love her salutation!

1:16 AM, January 20, 2007
cl said...

The Ignatius-Myrna exchanges were by far my favorite, especially his interjections as he read her letters that were so telling about his feelings:

"I do not believe a word of what I read. But I am frightened -- for you. ... You are aware, of course, that Freud linked paranoia with homosexual tendencies."

"Filth!" Ignatius shouted.

... I love how Myrna could bait him. Also, one of his exchanges with her toward the end:

"Why did you step out of my life, you minx? Your hairdo is fascinating and cosmopolitan."

12:25 PM, January 21, 2007

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