Joseph (in Manila) wrote, of "A Confederacy of Dunces" (my favorite book, too):
> But I have to admit that there are parts of the book I don't > understand. Or maybe its the local Southern joke that kept it private > from non-US Southerners. It helps to have visited New Orleans at least once, and preferably many times. I love to eat those strangely-colored hotdogs from the street carts, but only after drinking several hurricanes. Lori, on her way to N.O. again in three weeks!!
