A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 3

A Confederacy of Dunces

Is it part of the police department to harass me when this is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?  . . . This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft (p. 3)