John McGahern, pencil on paper, 1960 (poor quality reproduction)



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Paddy wanted to make a drawing of me to send back as a present to his mother, and started it after lunch the day before I was to return to Dublin. He was having difficulty, and after several starts abandoned it, and we went to see a Disney film which was showing at the Paddington Cinema around the corner. He delighted in the pictures of the deer crossing the Artic wastes along with the train of predators. The next morning he finished the drawing. - John McGahern (Patrick Swift 1927-83, Gandon Editions, 1993)

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