[bksvol-discuss] THe Devil and the Giro
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:24:38 -0700 (PDT)
Kellie, you're correct. In this context giro means
"payment of unemployment benefit."
Since Amazon.com had no reviews, and none of my
libraries has the book, I googled.
In an interview with James Robertson, author of A
Brief History of Gideon Mack, I found the following as
part of his answer to the question "...Did you
consciously choose to work within this ?tradition??
Why do you think the supernatural has been such a
common theme in Scottish fiction?"
"There was an anthology of Scottish short stories
published a few years ago under the title The Devil
and the Giro (?giro? in this instance meaning the
payment of unemployment benefit) and that title neatly
captures the idea of the fantastic rubbing shoulders
with the ordinary in everyday situations ? a
congruence that seems somehow quite characteristic of
a lot of Scottish life. Maybe the Scots are no
different from other people, but it does seem somehow
that many of us live close to, sometimes over, an edge
or boundary between the banal and the bizarre."
Cindy
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