In a particularly memorable moment, while listening to the opening notes of " Woodworking ", Stern stated, " it's mood music . . . if you're in a mental home, " later asking, " Do they write this stuff down?
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"When I went to adopt him, people used to say to me, ` You need to check into a mental home .'But some of those people who said I was crazy are now more a part of his life than I am ."
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Set in a mental home in County Wicklow in 1932, the play chronicles _ often in flashbacks _ the political and domestic strife of a former Dublin chief of police, a Catholic whose responsibilities in the waning years of British rule included Dublin Castle, the administrative center.
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Mrs Lancaster from " By the Pricking of My Thumbs " may have been mentioned in a conversation, when one of the characters, David Ardingly, mentions how he met an old lady in a mental home who says exactly the same phrase which chilled Tuppence to the bone, and which had a similar effect on Ardingly.
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While " White Raven " had a straight adventure plot, Stasiuk's subsequent writing has become increasingly impressionistic and concentrated on atmospheric descriptions of his adopted mental home, the provincial south-east of Poland and Europe, and the lives of its inhabitants . " Galician Tales ", one of several works available in English ( among the others are " White Raven, " " Nine ", " Dukla ", " Fado ", and " On the Road to Babadag " ) conveys a good impression of the specific style developed by Stasiuk.
