In The Fred Dibnah Story (1996) she recalled their first meeting: "He looked sad and miserable, quite a pathetic sort of figure really, none of the bounce that people knew him for".
If we structure society in such a way that many people have desperate, miserable lives, what sort of choice is it when people choose to kill themselves?
Sure there must be bad people in Naples, too, but the sort of miserable low lifes you find everywhere if you look hard enough.
If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable hangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.
"After a while," she said, "I felt vaguely sick and sort of miserable all the time.
By Saturday night I was in danger of sinking into a sort of miserable hourly drink-pee-weigh cycle.
"It seems to me," Ms. Presler said, "that when you formalize an analysts' top-picks fund, they seem to be sort of miserable".
More evidence of how crazy New Yorkers are, and what "slaves of NY" they must be to put up with this sort of miserable lifestyle and abuse to have the right ZIP code.
In this case, the protagonist, Errol Healy, was running not from civilization, with which he had no quarrel, but from his own problems, which made him unfit for lovely, ordinary life: these included proximate deaths, addiction, and the sort of miserable romance that persuades such people that they can set things right with adventure.
"Some people are sort of miserable because they haven't done enough introspection," she says.
