The novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole often employs the Yat accent. Steve Masakowski co-wrote three songs that were based on the novel "A Confederacy of Dunces". Like "A Confederacy of Dunces", the novel had a long and difficult road to publication. Toole submitted "Dunces" to publisher Simon & Schuster, where it reached editor Robert Gottlieb. Fletcher surmised that from these girls the character of Myrna Minkoff from "Dunces" was born. From critics, he turns to the contrastive of triumphant dunces and lost merit. On January 26, Nickelodeon released the "SpongeBob&colon; Dunces and Dragons" Flash game. Pope had written characters of the various "Dunces" prior to 1728. "Peri Bathous" is a blow Pope struck in an ongoing struggle against the "dunces". For his victory, she awards Curll a tapestry showing the fates of famous Dunces. As with other "dunces", she was not without complicity in the attack. Lower-classes got difficulties to sea themselves as "dunces". The King of the Dunces as the wife of Dulness was based on George II.