From Hilary

• The loss of facility with language is related to the loss of the ability to think clearly.
• Click your heels together and say to yourself: There is no ontology, there is no ontology...
• Pro-life 101, sophistry-busting: ‘What about rape?’ Or ‘I have the right to kill you because of what your father did’. All right, beta boy trying to seduce that cute chick, let’s take your logic to its end. Since abortion is a procedure that involves risk to the woman, and can be traumatic, wouldn’t it be better to wait until the child is born and kill him then?
• Modern art is “rubbish”, narcissistic, snobby, devoid of skill, ignorant of taste, gripped by “nostalgia for the future”. But it goes deeper than that. It’s a difference of opinion about what art should do. Art, he says, has always been about “trying to alleviate the pain of existence”. Modern art “collaborates with misery as opposed to trying to oppose it”.
• Scintillating scotomas. I get them without the other migraine symptoms. Now I know what they’re called.