Why LANARK?
Sunday, 4. February 2007, 23:13:26
Image: a page of the drafts of LANARK: a life in 4 books, by Alasdair Gray.I am neither from Lanark in Scotland, nor from Lanark in Canada, nor from Lanark in the USA. I did not even know about those places, untill a rather recent date. That is not the reason for my nickname. I am going to enumerate some alternative reasons, so the reader can choose:
- I came to Scotland in an ark. And this came full of LAN cards. It was a LAN ark.
- I wanted to be "anarchy in the UK" but being a coward, wanted to disguise in a foreign language, saying for example "l'anarchie pour le UK", and in a final coward cut, only l'anark was left.
- I read "lanark: a life in 4 books" by Alasdair Gray, and found that I am pretty much like Duncan Thaw, alias Lanark, and adopted the nick long before I knew I was going to live in the city that inspired Unthank, in the nearby of a city called actually Lanark.
- I read "lanark: a life in 4 books" by Alasdair Gray, and lost my mind, and I actually believe that I am Duncan Thaw, alias Lanark.
- Seeing the end of civilization coming, I put all my hopes in the utopic model of Mr. Robert Owen in New Lanark, and even take its name for my nickname.
- I chose my nickname at random
About the name of the blog, it also comes from a book. It is called, in spanish, "Quizá nos lleve el viento al infinito", the same as my spanish blog, and was written in 1984 by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, a wonderful spanish writer (if you do not read spanish, a BabelFish translation will have to be enough)
