Attention, please note! Attention, please note! The expansion committee announces that after the hundred and eightieth all twittering is to be treated as a sign of hopelessness!.
Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.
Instead of making life a continual feast you chop it into days and swallow them regularly, like pills.
Instead of visiting ten parties since you came here, laying ten women and getting drunk ten times, you've watched thirty days go by. Lanark consists of Chapters 1 - 44 sequentially within four "Books" arranged unusually, beginning with Book Three, followed by a Prologue, Book One, Interlude, Book Two, and Book Four, with an Epilogue four chapters before the end of the novel. They think you can be an artist in your spare time, though nobody expects you to be a spare-time dustman, engineer, lawyer or brain surgeon. Quotes People in Scotland have a queer idea of the arts. The book has since won the Saltire Society Book of the Year and David Niven awards, and has become a cult classic. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott". Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian fantasy depictions of his home town of Glasgow. Lanark: A Life in Four Books was the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, and is still his most famous. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.
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