1. The novel of the neoreactionaries, the people who LARP as “tradcats”, & the “American Russian Orthodox” is undoubtedly Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces” (1980). The novel’s protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly, is an amateur Boethius scholar, moviegoer, & latter day Quixote.
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4. Our modern day Ignatius J. Reillys and their Minkoffs conduct their relationships over Twitter rather than by post as in the novel. But, still, the flirtation under political and theological guises continues. Reilly chastises the sacrilegious Minkoff...
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5. But Wikipedia puts it well...”Officially, they both deplore everything the other stands for. Though neither of them will admit it, their correspondence indicates that, separated though they are by half a continent, many of their actions are meant to impress one another.”
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6. So, for heaven’s sake, just stop the Twitter flirtation, you “tradcats”, “orthobros”, “radical feminists”, “DSA girls”, and get married already.
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