From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> Irvine Welsh is from Glasgow.
Bite it and see.
I grew up in Denniston, while my son never heard anything other than East
Midlands in his life, and although he has no problems with Welsh's speech, I
keep tripping over how it should sound like what I think it should.
_Trainspotting_ is set in Edinburgh and sounds Morningside -- if it looks
like a duck and quacks like a duck and has feathers, it probably *is a duck.
> And I have the monopoly on elephants - at the moment, cos of my new book.
> Alsdair Gray is a v good example and becoming even more of an artist than
> a writer - he's done a michelangelo on a formerly disused church in
> Glasgow's west end. Brilliant!
Blake illusatrated his poems too. I feel about the same way about both.
Actually, and slightly more seriously, my objections to Alasdair's visual
material would be two-fold -- it's limited, and it never changes.
Whereas _Lanark_ is to die for.
R.
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