Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, __ook at my beautiful home! Isn__ it fine?_ And not, __ook at the home so-and-so has built._ Thus we shouldn__ cry, __ook what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!_ But rather, __ook at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?
Glasgow is a magnificent city,_ said McAlpin. __hy do we hardly ever notice that?_ __ecause nobody imagines living here_think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he__ already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn__ been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
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Glasgow is a magnificent city,_ said McAlpin. __hy do we hardly ever notice that?_ __ecause nobody imagines living here_think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he__ already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn__ been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
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