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A review by lornesausage
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
5.0
‘People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, but no one expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon’.
‘Our nations are not built instinctively by our bodies, like beehives; they are works of art [...] The possible shapes of them are endless. It is bad habits, not bad nature, which makes us repeat the dull old shapes of poverty and war. Only greedy people that profit by these things believe they are natural.’
‘Our nations are not built instinctively by our bodies, like beehives; they are works of art [...] The possible shapes of them are endless. It is bad habits, not bad nature, which makes us repeat the dull old shapes of poverty and war. Only greedy people that profit by these things believe they are natural.’