Deceased Author Signs Book in Bangkok:
John Kennedy Toole, author of the best-selling and critic-lauded book 'A Confederacy of Dunces', is signing his latest book, entitled 'A Council of Demented and Ridiculous Military', at a publicity stunt in Bangkok. Some may find this inconsistent with Mr Toole's suicide and consequential premature death in March 1969, but he has previously produced a sequel to his posthumously published mega-hit, and---as his colleague Kurt Vonnegut so eloquently put it---"So it goes!"
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