![]() ![]() Ignatius and Irene strike up a conversation with the bar girl, Darlene, and a fashionable young man named Dorian Greene, until the proprietor, Lana Lee, returns and throws them out-Ignatius and Irene are not the sort of customers she wants in her bar. They hide in a nearby strip club called the Night of Joy, where they order beers. When Irene exits the shop, she screams at Patrolman Mancuso to arrest Claude-who she claims must have started things-and she and Ignatius escape. Ignatius gets into a fight with Mancuso, and an old man, Claude Robichaux, tries to defend Ignatius. While Ignatius waits, a policeman- Patrolman Mancuso-approaches and tries to arrest him because he looks suspicious. ![]() Ignatius is a medieval scholar who despises the modern world. Reilly, an obese young man dressed in a hunting cap and other strange attire, waits for his mother, Irene, outside of a department store in New Orleans, Louisiana. ![]()
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