Skagboys just out for the buzz on drugs, to total junkies. It shows how their attitudes and behaviour start to change as they become more defined by the drug and the culture around it". In 2012, Welsh said the prequel was actually initially written as part of "Trainspotting" but was not used in the published version. He later decided he would either erase his old work or use it in some way, as "he had a fear that he might fall under a bus and leave behind 'half-written stuff' which people would publish". He said, "I just went through it and
Irving A. Leonard Irving A. Leonard Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are "Books of the Brave" (1949) and "Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices" (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English. "Books of the Brave", a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992. He had many papers published in the "American Historical Review"