Jonathan Simcoe

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a

“Consider cotton prices,” Malcolm said. “There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study fluctuations in cotton prices, you find that the graph of price fluctuations in the course of a day looks basically like the graph for a week, which looks basically like the graph for a year, or for ten years. And

The eyes were hollow and the carven beard was broken, but about the high stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

So who cares what I can prove in the courts? This is right. This happened, and I am going to do anything I can to uncover this horror, this evil.

The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both.

All the writing that I’ve done has involved an element of wanting to sustain that ghost career, or find a position somewhere between ‘journalism’ and ‘scholarship.’ I don’t feel that there’s a total difference between these kinds of writing. They’re not different species. There is so much that lies in between.

A great lord is that, and a healer; and it is a thing passing strange to me that the healing hand should also wield the sword.