2004-11-25

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Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | 'I look at the spaces between people'

For Whelan, passion may be the most mysterious thing of all. He compares his writing to the work of his nephew, an astronomer. 'He looks at the spaces between stars. I look at the spaces between people. I really do think that it is as mysterious as the spaces between the stars. More so, in a way, because I think they're finding out more and more about the bodies in the heavens and those become facts, but we can't predict people.'