Things Written Randomly in Doubt

A work in three parts, Things Written starts with aphorisms in ?How Not to Be a RuminantOCO, shifts to essays in ? Weights and CounterweightsOCO, and concludes with poetry in? By the MetreOCO. Some arguments appear in more than one section, and include nationalism, class, free will, religion, literature and the arts, but the theme of human relationships runs through the entire book, and is most closely examined with reference to Martin BuberOCOs ideas in a long essay entitled ?Cats and Dogs, and Other Things We Cannot UnderstandOCO. there is ? in CameronOCOs work, a lingering spirituality, a faith that something soulful and significant is present in the everyday, in the ordinary ?heroism of mortalsOCO he writes of. On occasion this takes the form of scepticism about scienceOCOs claim to be able to quantify and explain all experience. Like the philosopher John Gray, he is dubious about ?progressOCO, political, economic, and scientific. ? if Scottish literature has a true outsider, it is not Irvine Welsh: itOCOs Allan Cameron.OCO ? Scottish Review of Books"