Ignatius Jacques Reilly is an overweight and unemployed thirty-year-old with a degree in Medieval History who still lives with his mother, Irene Reilly.
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17 Facts About Ignatius Reilly
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One afternoon, Reilly's mother drives him 'downtown in the old Plymouth, and while she was at the doctor's seeing about her arthritis, Ignatius had bought some sheet music at Werlein's for his trumpet and a new string for his lute.
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An elderly man, Claude Robichaux, takes Ignatius Reilly's side, denouncing Officer Mancuso and the police as communists.
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Ignatius Reilly is forced to work for the first time in many years in order to help his mother pay for the accident.
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Ignatius Jacques Reilly is something of a modern Don Quixote—eccentric, idealistic, and creative, sometimes to the point of delusion.
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Ignatius Reilly prefers the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages, and the Early Medieval philosopher Boethius in particular.
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Ignatius Reilly is of the mindset that he does not belong in the world and that his numerous failings are the work of some higher power.
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Ignatius Reilly continually refers to the goddess Fortuna as having spun him downwards on her wheel of fortune.
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Ignatius Reilly loves to eat, and his masturbatory fantasies lead in strange directions.
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Myrna Minkoff, referred to by Ignatius Reilly as "that minx, " is a Jewish beatnik from New York City, whom Ignatius Reilly met while she was in college in New Orleans.
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The novel repeatedly refers to Myrna and Ignatius Reilly having engaged in tag-team attacks on the teachings of their college professors.
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Ignatius Reilly's has a drinking problem, most frequently indulging in muscatel, although Ignatius exaggerates that she is a raving, abusive drunk.
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Ignatius Reilly's falls for Claude Robichaux, a fairly well-off man with a railroad pension and rental properties.
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Some readers from elsewhere assume Ignatius Reilly's favorite soft drink, Dr Nut, to be fictitious, but it was an actual local soft drink brand of the era.
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Ignatius Reilly's was persistent and tried several different publishers, to no avail.
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Ignatius Reilly initially resisted; however, as he recounts in the book's foreword:.
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Ignatius Reilly was sent to New Orleans by Paramount Studios in 1997 to get background for a screenplay adaptation.
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