A famous philosopher has told newspapers that he is having trouble deciding which famous philosopher will help him get both mad and even.

The philosopher went 'ballistic' when a reviewer in New York panned his latest book, 'Proust Won't Make You Go Blind', calling it self-serving, pseudo-intellectual garbage.

"I can get no satisfaction from either Nietzsche or Schopenhauer. I'm thinking of calling time on philosophy as a way of dealing with life. I am now thinking, either I should punch the guys lights out or just sit at home simmering and sticking pins in a wax effigy of him."