I met Alasdair Gray, he was here in Bolzano and then we met again close to
Verona somewhere, he is some character!
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
>> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
>> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
>> http://www.myspace.com/poetsallyevans
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Hamilton" <
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>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: New beats (???)
>>
>>
>> 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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