Oh well, okay, here is the pointless cogitation (or possibly, fruitless regurgitation) on an irrelevant, and typically hysterical, literary debate: With regards to the recent furore over James Kelman's alleged statements regarding genre fiction, made at the Edinburgh Book Festival, which, as I understand it, may have run along the lines of, 'genre ... Read morewriting is lazy writing and risks stereotyping Scotland', may I say that none of it - neither the alleged statement nor the collective riposte - really bothers me, in fact it does not concern me one iota. I am not writing for, about or to, Scotland or any other polity, the material which I have penned bears no significance in relation to Scottish or any other literature, nor is my work a part of any canon or school. Furthermore, the work does not represent anything. It simply is. For this last sentence to be be taken at face value as applied truth, there would need to be an impossible liberation of the contemporary cultural mind.

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