--- Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> What did it get us? "Trainspotting" and Ian Rankin
> and sodding Edinburgh
> noir detective novels.
>
> Angels weep.
I was much amused to find in the Longman's Anthology
of British Literature the statement that Trainspotting
made "Glaswegian knockabouts and their dialect
emblematic of the modern condition." I had hoped that
this introduction was penned by a witty inhabitant of
auld reekie but apparently not.
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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