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Originally Posted by Zipr
It hard to imagine that John Kennedy Toole was able to capture Ignatius' madness but not see his own enough to get help. Maybe it was his own madness that enabled him to build this character??
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Perhaps J.K. Toole, like his character Ignatius, was unwilling to admit he needed help. It was more difficult in those days; mental illness carried a much greater social stigma, coupled with the fact that the success rate of therapy was not as high as it is now, largely due to the current generation of psychoactive and antipsychotic pharmaceuticals.