56 This was Robert Lowe, Liberal chancellor of the Exchequer and wholly opposed to democracy in Britain
57 Outsourced is postmodern slang for run more cheaply in foreign lands.
58 This festival, was started by local town councillors and business people acting unofficially, helped by Michael Dale, former Edinburgh Festival Fringe organiser.
59 As editor I have been obliged to omit several of Tunnock’s remarks that I have been advised would make me actionable at law.
60 Since 2003 this building has been called the Oran Mor Arts and Leisure Centre.
61 Professor Moignard teaches classics in the University of Glasgow, does not drink in Tennants, but was Tunnock’s neighbour in Hillhead.
62 This day must be Monday 1st or Tuesday 2nd of January.
63 These words are misquotations from a song in Behan’s play, The Hostage.
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
ALASDAIR GRAY, born in 1934, is a painter certificated by Glasgow Art School. Unable to live by one art he became jack of several and Old Men In Love is his 19th book. In The Dublin Independent Lawrence Sterne says it will swim down the gutter of time with the legation of Moses and A Tale of A Tub. Says Urquhart of Cromarty in The Scots Magazine, Relish the cheese — like brain that feeds you with these trifling jollities. Dr Samuel Johnson in The Rambler writes, Never has penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment been so happily disguised. Sidney Workman in the Epilogue says This book should not be read. In this blurb Alasdair Gray writes Old Men in Love is bound to sell well because everyone now feels old after 25, so all youngsters are interested in what comes next.