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he's fat, get it?

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>Toole took the rejection of the book in his intended form as a tremendous personal blow.[98] He eventually ceased work on Dunces and for a time left it atop an armoire in his bedroom.[99]

> Items found in Toole's car show that he drove to California where he visited the Hearst family mansion and then to Milledgeville, Georgia.[121][122] Here he most likely attempted to visit Andalusia, the home of deceased writer Flannery O'Connor, although her house was not open to the public.[121][122] This was succeeded by a drive toward New Orleans. It was during this trip that he stopped outside Biloxi, Mississippi, and committed suicide by running a garden hose from the exhaust pipe in through the window of his car on March 26, 1969.[123]