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Happy #GrayDay! The cover of this edition of LANARK shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland, looking from west to east
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A Gray Day Broadcast

From 25 Feb 2021 – the first ever #GrayDay, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Alasdair Gray’s novel LANARK. Featuring Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Alan Cumming, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Irvine Welsh, Gemma Cairney, Chitra Ramaswamy, Alex Kapranos, Ewen Bremner, Louise Welsh, Salena Godden, Gavin Mitchell, Bernard MacLaverty, Rodge Glass, The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly, & more.

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#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyoRe75xNM

“Only the rich & illiterate can ignore our anthology. With this in their lavatory everyone else can read nothing but newspaper supplements & still seem educated.”

– #AlasdairGray describes his BOOK OF PREFACES: A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century Edited & Glossed by Alasdair Gray Mainly to Willy Maley – one of several contributors to the volume paid in portraiture
#Scottish #literature #GrayDay
https://www.willymaley.scot/2020/06/27/portraits-and-prefaces/

Today, 25 Feb, is #GrayDay – a celebration of Alasdair Gray, whose seminal novel LANARK: A Life in Four Books was first published #OTD in 1981

The cover of this edition of LANARK shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland, looking from west to east
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Insta 6yrs ago: Just graysing. #elporto #beachtown #cloudporn #grayday #blackandwhite #manhattanbeach #notnorth #elsegundo #losangeles #mydayinla #beachlife #southbay #socal #california https://osoporto.com

I saw only 6 people & 4 dogs on #hiking trails in the morning.

#ThetisLake #CRDParks #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BritishColumbia #Canada #landscsape #Scenery #Nature #HikingPhotos #DisabledHiker #DayHike #GrayDay #Lake #Water #WorldInMyEyes #MyNaturePhotos #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #YYJHikes

Campbell River this morning looking south towards Nanaimo. We’re right on the northern edge of the atmospheric river that’s hitting Vancouver and Seattle today.
#atmospheric #river #GrayDay #storm

Today's weather.

#grayday

Today's weather.

#grayday

#GrayDay
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Some days there’s no stoke of genius.
Some days are simply grey.
Some days the world is against you.
Some days your in your own way.
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Those days it’s best to be quite
Those days it’s best to step back
Those days it’s best to stay home.
Gently stroking a cat.
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#Poem #poetry #MastoPrompt #Stroke

#catlover #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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The 25th of February is #GrayDay - celebrating the writer and artist Alasdair Gray

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The 25th of February is #GrayDay - celebrating the writer and artist Alasdair Gray

https://www.grayday.info/

https://www.grayday.info/gallery