Tag Archives: Poor Things

Cultural Highlights of 2025

Posted on 29/12/2025 by alasdairflett

In 2025 I qualified as a solicitor. Practically, this has little substantive effect other than 1) being able to call myself a solicitor and 2) being able to be sued in my own name for professional negligence and complained against … Continue reading →

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Eva an sich or The Living Treatise: Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’ revisited

Posted on 25/01/2025 by alasdairflett

January led me to Poor Things four years ago. Public health was very much the order of the day back then as Covid restrictions, about which and around which novels are now written (see Caledonia Road by Andrew O’Hagan) still … Continue reading →

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A Loving Economy: Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’

Posted on 02/02/2021 by alasdairflett

I postponed the boat Glasgowward to two-thirds through the month and made it up a tier from three to four without arrest, though I intelligently left a Kindle on the Megabus as evidence of my transit (recovered a week later … Continue reading →

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