Monday 20 September 2010

Lovely

This from Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which I recently read for the first time.

'. . . It was then that Miss Brodie looked beautiful and fragile, just as dark heavy Edinburgh itself could suddenly be changed into a floating city when the light was a special pearly white and fell upon one of the gracefully fashioned streets. . . .'

4 comments:

Mim said...

Oh, Edinburgh, the Sienna of the north!

nmj said...

Hey Mim, it is usually known as Athens of the north, but I like Siena too. ;)

Muhamad Lodhi said...

That's more or less what I thought when I last came to Edinburgh. :-)

nmj said...

Is truly beautiful city, views of hills or water all around, and the Old Town never ceases to enchant.