I remember everything narrow: rooms, houses, yards, alleys, streets - narrow and dark and constricted, all pushed together beneath an oppressive sky in which the smoke from the chimneypots trailed off in vague, stringy wisps and strands, a sky filled with rainclouds - it always seemed to be raining, and if it wasn't raining it was always about to rain. There was blackened brickwork, and grimy walls, and against them gray figures in raincoats scurried home like phantoms through the late winter afternoons before the lamps were lit.
- Patrick McGrath, Spider (1990)
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tgif folks i just remembered that sometimes ahl teams upload their game photos to flickr, and i'm about to make it everyone's problem.
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Patrick McGrath by Willy Vanderperre (2015)
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“Non sono più disposta a tollerare che tu prenda quello che ti viene da me come qualcosa di dovuto”.
— Patrick McGrath Follia
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— Patrick McGrath from the Angel
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“Hazard Intervention”
Patrick McGrath
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Non pensava al futuro, perché pensare al futuro ha senso solo se si desidera qualcosa, e lei ora non desiderava niente, le bastava arrivare in fondo alla giornata senza diventare pazza.
—Patrick McGrath; Follia
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“ Guardava se stessa mentre affrontava le interminabili ore di quelle strane giornate. A volte si guardava dal di dentro, da una specie di cittadella fortificata all'interno della sua psiche, a volte dal di fuori, cioè da un punto che secondo lei era qualche spanna sopra la testa, un po' di lato.”
— Follia di Patrick McGrath
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favorite novel
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Spider will be released on Blu-ray on December 13 via Sony Pictures. The 2002 psychological thriller is directed by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome).
Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville, and Lynn Redgrave star. Patrick McGrath (Asylum) wrote the script, based on his own 1990 novel.
No special features are listed.
Released after decades in a sanitarium, schizophrenic Dennis "Spider" Cleg (Ralph Fiennes) moves into Mrs. Wilkinson's (Lynn Redgrave) halfway house and befriends a fellow resident, Terrence (John Neville), before retreating into personal writing and the darkness of his own haunted mind. Spider struggles to decipher murky memories of a childhood trauma involving his abusive father (Gabriel Byrne), his murdered mother (Miranda Richardson), and a prostitute who may have replaced her.
Pre-order Spider.
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Follia - Patrick McGrath
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“Gli uominigelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.”
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Follia - Patrick McGrath
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— Patrick McGrath from the Angel
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The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath, printed 1996. Cover photograph by Simon Marsden, design by Chin-Yee Lai.
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