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Derek Catron
I’d been reading a lot of stories about post-traumatic stress disorder, which has been around even longer than Homer, though our understanding of it is only a recent development. We are accustomed to making heroes of men with a skill for killing when it’s justified. I wanted to explore what happens to a character like that when that book or movie ends. So I started with the idea of Josey Angel, a man made legend by the war, though he’s not equipped psychologically to cope with his celebrity. I think of him as Achilles, cursed with a sensitive soul.
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