A Confederacy of Dunces, Chapters Thirteen & Fourteen

It won’t surprise you all to learn that I really loved this book. I wrote in my Goodreads review

This was on my to-read list for years and years. I always avoided it because I had absorbed the notion that it's a mean-spirited book, a prurient one. And I can't say that's totally wrong. But there's a lightheartedness here, too, a genuinely joyful delight i…