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Tortured by headaches and nosebleeds, he lives a life of fractions and spinning tangents, and the metaphors are right there in the filmmaking, captured in the furious montage and in flurries of talismanic signs--the swirls of milk dissolving in a coffee cup, the smoke spiraling off a cigarette.
He writes mainly about a local cop, Tommy O'Connor, but his story is interspersed with tangents on the town's history and various oddball local residents.