> AHHHRRRMMMM! Banks? Glasgow? The boy's from North Queensferry. Just ayont
> Embro's smoky embrace.
Oh bugger, another rubbertree gone.
I think I was mislead by the Ken MacLeod connection, as they're such close
mates.
Learn something new every day.
> The stuff about port cities in the Melbourne synopsis looks like a big red
> herring. Trawlers in dock? If he's going to develop ideas about local
> self-images being generated through relationships with the world beyond
> forged by sea and then fed back into dry-land discourse and subverted
> through the liminality of crime, he'll need more than half an hour I
should
> think.
>
> P
Hm ... Like that "liminality of crime". There is a port connection here,
real life not fiction. In the sixties, most hard drugs were run in through
Glasgow, then later it switched to Leith.
It was William McIlvanney's name that caught my eye -- a blast from the
past, that.
Might take up Max's suggestion and email the author for a copy of his paper.
And ask if I can pass it on to you if I get it?
Robin
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