Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.[...]
The cult of the victim is the cult of pathos, not tragedy. The art of pathos is pathetic, simply; and it has reached a point of exhaustion, a point where not the subject matter but the art form itself is crying to heaven for vengeance.
- Muriel Spark, The Desegregation of Art ("supplied by The British Library - 'the world's knowledge'")
