High John the Conqueror: A Novel

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I’m not a local. I’m an import to this area, but I’ve been here since 2008. And prior to that, I lived in London for 30 or 31 years. So I suppose you could say that it took me over a decade to write about my immediate environment. And also it took me seven novels before I was ready to write in first person or use the “I” for a novel. Yeah. So neither of these things — which I think are pretty common for novelists — were the positions I started with. There’s been a lot of discussion and debate lately about the nature of policing. What was it like to be writing a book where most of the central characters are part of a police department while that debate was happening? It’s a story about different approaches. Policing is containment. How do you keep a lead on this hell, this slow car crash where the tectonic plates met in 2016 with Brexit and Trump. Then you’ve got the actual High John the Conqueror, this drug that allows you to physically dematerialize and reject the world and the pain in that way. And then there’s music which basically at its best, is like drugs in that at their best they’re more than mere entertainment; they’re sources of information. They don’t show you how a better world is possible. They show you how you can grow out of the form you’ve been assigned or given. Neither music or drugs, for me, are to do with blind hedonism. I’m still with the Blakean project here, which is that knowledge this way lies. I’m not a utopian. I think there will always be prisons. There will always be police, there will always be rancor and conflict. Even in some as-yet-unimagined anarchist paradise, they would still be there. I don’t believe in human perfectibility on earth, so I don’t think that the Marxist analysis is a complete one. And I also think that the police are probably one of the few state-run, centralized bureaucratic organizations where the left pours opprobrium and hatred, and gives vent to feelings that they never would to ambulance drivers or even soldiers, far less nurses or teachers. I’m not saying that the police don’t at times deserve this, but I think that they have become a kind of unthinking demonized bogeyman for the left. I think this falls short of an accurate depiction of what the police are. While I wanted to write a novel that did not idealize or correct the sort of ire directed at the police — which, as I said, I think is often justified — I wanted also to write about people who, a lot of the time, are doing sensible things that are societally necessary. Having to clean up the mess that modern capitalism leaves is often a thankless task, but there are people in there motivated by good and decent reasons; they’re not a species apart from other civil servants.The reputation of High John is so great that, as recorded by the folklorist Harry Middleton Hyatt in the When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult. Bindweed is a pretty plant with a pleasant fragrance. It has trumpet-shaped flowers, usually white or very pale purple or pink, which open and arrow-shaped leaves. It creeps along the ground or will climb a vertical object like a fence or another plant. There is a broad-leaved and a narrow-leaved variety.

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