"He leaves New Orleans in 2010 as the father of twins, a Super Bowl ring, and with a Mike McKenzie-given nickname, 'The Asian Assassin.'"
--Kenny Wilkerson
The title Confederacy of Dunces derives from the epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting)