Simon has had an unsolicited rite of passage that included excruciating pain, 14 hours at ER, a ketamine trip when an IV malfunctioned and he says he saw himself in third person, and today, a real surgery. After three days filled with deep questions and anxieties about his body, the nature of reality and conscious experience, he has reemerged as a hardened young man. Literally, with stainless steel in his left arm.
