In The Papers of Tony Veitch, William McIlvanney mentions "that Glaswegian walk, in which the shoulders don’t move separately but the whole torso is carried as one, as stiff as a shield". Now I would lie if I said I've ever noticed this during my three and a half years there. Still, the words filled me with pleasure, because I probably walk like that: throughout my life, friends would be telling me I walked "as if I swallowed a ruler" and other things to that effect.
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