Those febrile inter-war years can seem strange, to we moderns. Let’s not forget about their own writing! Again. In this issue of The Bottle Imp, we turn our attention to the distaff side, and in particular to the women writers of the twentieth-century Scottish renaissance: the handmaids, midwives, mothers, mistresses, cooks, nannies, and skivvies to that literary revolution. Or the fact that he never shuts his mouth.Īway with such vanity. Although modern sensibilities might shy away from presenting Oor Rory not merely rampant but pizzled and codded to boot, there’s no mistaking his prominent masculinity with all that mane force on display, rippling in the breeze. Scotland’s achievement – in the heraldic sense – also has “Genius Hair”: Or, a lion rampant Gules, within a double tressure flory-counterflory of the same. Anyone who has looked at a picture of Hugh MacDiarmid – and witnessed therein a man trying, by force of will, to transform himself into a thistle – will know what “Genius Hair” looks like. From The Trouble With Women, by Jacky Fleming (Square Peg, 2016)Īnyone who has read Jacky Fleming’s The Trouble With Women will be familiar with Schopenhauer’s theory of masculine “Genius Hair”.
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