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The Making of a Long Life
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This is an afterword to my father's memoir which I have just edited for forthcoming publication by eyeglass books. I thought that the reader might be interested to know a bit more about the biographical background to this memoir, what motivated and influenced my father to write it, its relation to other books about life in the Gorbals, and finally …
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ON THE UNHOMING OF FAMILIAR THINGS
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What follows is from a forthcoming publication with the above title by eyeglass books which contains extracts from my lockdown diary. Home is wherever what is to hand feels familiar and trustworthy. Unlike the Archbishop cited by Lewis Carroll, we instantly know what it is and where to find this or that . That sense of secure dwelling is often …
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