Monday, November 9, 2009

Oh, Fortuna


"As a medievalist Ignatius believed in the rota Fortunae, or wheel of fortune, a central concept in De Consolatione Philosophiae, the philosophical work which had laid foundation for medieval thought."

--A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Bib: Toole, John Kennedy. Confederacy of Dunces. London: Allen Lane, 1981.



(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/ForutuneWheel.jpg)

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