![]() The gasps of disbelief which Robertson heard – of which the loudest was his own – were generated by a switch in the zeitgeist, which some were slow to notice. Many people in Scotland would find Massie's remarks unobjectionable, if not self-evident. If you try to write about Scottish political parties, you're not going to have anything very interesting to put in a novel." But I still hold by what I said." Referring to the long novel-within-a-novel in And the Land Lay Still, featuring a dissolute British intelligence agent called Peter Bond ("I'm the original Bond, you bastard") who is commissioned to report on underground organisations, Massie says: "Simply because Scottish politics have been so lacking in drama, he had to do this wildly exaggerated picture of extremist groups. Massie says he remarked his appearance in the novel "with amusement. In real life, the speaker at the Edinburgh debate was the novelist Allan Massie, and Robertson concedes that "in a way, what he was saying was true". ![]() We haven't had civil war or bloodbaths, thank God, but we have had change.'" The place has changed beyond recognition. ![]() ![]() What I'm trying to say is: 'Immerse yourself. In a sense, Robertson says, "this novel is a riposte to that. ![]()
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