All around them sat feverish men in suits, eating steaks with their square teeth.
He left several versions of this small, feverish one-man piece, a vision of himself on the verge of turning 30 in 1990, working constantly on his musical "Superbia," desperately wondering if he would ever leave his mark on the form he so loved.
They were fortunate late on when Torres failed to exploit another opportunity, partly created by defensive neglect, but by then the man from Madrid seemed to be operating in his own, feverish world of huge expectation and negligible supply lines.
The world – the world, that is, as seen through the prism of the feverish imaginings of man – has often believed itself to be on the brink of an apocalypse, and never more so than at the turn of a new century or, better still, a new millennium – in spite of the fact that chronology itself is man-made.
In "Feverish Propositions," the man has the thermometer, the woman has the fever: he takes her temperature, which, she says, she "had thought to save for a more difficult day".
Sexual polarity had vanished and with it the feverish gravitation a man is supposed to have for his wife.
The bus had to stop by countless army checkpoints where there were feverish hunts for men's IDs.
He is scariest, in fact, when he radiates the feverish joy of a man on a hunt, the quarry of course being the secret that will destroy him.
Yet Peter Hoare's sweating Herod gives the perfect, feverish impression of a man lusting for a glimpse of his 16-year-old stepdaughter.
Maybe it's that they're afraid to advertise Immortals as what it is: a movie from the feverish imagination of the man who made The Cell and The Fall, two of the more viciously fanciful films of the past few years.
