My madness is not irresponsible though it does strike me as highly irregular. What am I doing? Sometimes I struggle not to drown under the overwhelmingly ambitious position that I have placed myself in.

From Joshua Compston’s diary entry of March 26, 1991, quoted by Jeremy Cooper, No FuN Without U: The Art of Factual Nonsense, London: Ellipsis, 2000, p. 27.