In this recording Alasdair reads the passage from Chapter 22 of Lanark that includes his most quoted excerpt - where Thaw explains to his friend McAlpin why nobody notices the magnificence of the city they live in. I asked Alasdair to read this passage but I think he found the choice rather banal - hence his slightly dismissive comment at the end.

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