bulldoziaRecorded 9am, Thu 11 August.. A familiar figure round these parts, he walks along the street in a fedora, a briefcase in one hand, a phone to his ear in the other, shouting. As Norman MacCaig wrote in 'After His Death' (1971), dedicated to the then still-alive Hugh MacDiarmid (born 11 Aug 1892):'The government decreed that / on the anniversary of his birth / the people should observe / two minutes pandemonium.'
