2 Quotes by Stephen Maxwell

Although Scotland has been a conspicuous beneficiary of British exploitation of the Third World, Scotland has been more resistant to the mystique of Empire than England. The Empire first impressed the English as a confirmation of their presumed right to govern and then flattered their ego by adopting many English institutions and attitudes as models for their own development. In return the Empire colonised a small but important part of England's sense of her own identity.

In Debray's formulation, when a publisher pays an author an advance he is paying not for the author's intellectual labour but for his social capital, the accumulated cost of maintaining the network of contacts which make the author a personality, rather than the content of his book, a marketable commodity.