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105 days ago
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
– Alasdair Gray
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danhowarth.bsky.social
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105 days ago
He borrowed it from Canadian poet, Dennis Lee:
“And best of all is finding a place to be in the early days of a better civilization. For we are a conquered nation: sea to sea we bartered everything that counts, till we have nothing to lose but our forebears’ will to lose.”
– Civil Elegies
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danhowarth.bsky.social
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105 days ago
It’s at its best on Gray’s mural next to the loos at the Ubiquitous Chip, a restaurant in Glasgow. Credit:
https://thealasdairgrayarchive.org/timeline/
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danhowarth.bsky.social
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105 days ago
An epigraph on the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament
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danhowarth.bsky.social
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105 days ago
And this inscription on the front of the first edition of Gray’s novel, ‘Poor Things’ (1992). Credit: Stephen Persing.
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“And best of all is finding a place to be in the early days of a better civilization. For we are a conquered nation: sea to sea we bartered everything that counts, till we have nothing to lose but our forebears’ will to lose.”
– Civil Elegies