"Because everything is present, everything is necessarily judged against the standards of the present"

If that's not hysterical and stupid, I don't know what is. "Aaaah, I am suddenly aware of the past, even though it's the present! Quick, rewrite those old children's books and expunge the records of the originals!"

I'm sure the pub is happy to be free of his bizarre rants, but I feel sorry for that bastard's poor spawn, they'll have decades of his weeping and bloviating to look forward to