From Graeme Warren
Peter Halligan and David Oakley show a touching concern for their readers’
sensibilities
(18 November, p 34). However, I don’t think they need to worry. I
myself was a little upset to discover that my conscious self has no real
existence; but only for a moment. Halligan and Oakley’s entire article, as they
would be the first to admit, is a mere by-product of their own unconscious
impulses. Any appearance of rational argument, or objective truth, is a part of
that sheer illusion which they are trying so hard to dispel. Hence there is no
reason for me to take them seriously if I don’t feel like it.
Garlieston, Wigtownshire
