Much of Lanark is at http://www.alasdairgray.co.uk/Lanark/a.htm. The
rest of the site is also pretty interesting.
I'd love to know where that church is--I'll be in Glasgow in six
weeks and would certainly pop by.
Mark
At 12:27 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>Have you seen the church? His work has changed, and become more
>ethereal, more fairytale.
>Sally
>
>Sally Evans
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>>From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>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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