>I think it's you, Robin. His illustrations have got better in the latest
>project.
Maybe so, Sally, but the quality I remember of Alasdair's illustrations from
between maybe the late sixities and the present is that they *haven't
changed.
Not one single bit.
> they have become more etherial (I was going to say fairytale), and
> everyone is excited about them, and his previous illus were all his own
> style, he didnt let any other styles influence him.
I remain to be convinced.
> Also your ref to Lanark, its maybe that Alasdair saw himself as an artist
> rather than a writer.
Well, how long did he spend writing _Lanark_?
Twenty years?
How long did he spend on any other artistic project?
It's a case of bite it and see -- what will Alasdair be remembered for?
_Larnark_, in the same way that McDiarmid is remembered for _A Drunk Man
Looks At the Thistle_ and Lewis Grassic Gibbon is remembered for _A Scots
Quair_ and GMB for _Greenvoe_. The rest is irrelevant.
Sad but true.
Robin
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