darkedinburgh

Just setup cross-posting so a little test and I thought why not make that a reminder that there is an award winning Dark Edinburgh book! https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/dark-edinburgh/

"The delicate die early, and I, as a survivor, among bleak winds and plumping rain, have been sometimes tempted to envy them their fate." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The sun was sinking. The hard stone of the day was cracked and light poured through its splinters. Red and gold shot through the waves, in rapid running arrows, feathered with darkness." - Virginia Woolf, The Waves Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. “I am alone and they are everyone,” I thought - and pondered." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"How you would please me, night! Without your stars Which speak a foreign dialect, that jars On one who seeks the void, the black, the bare." - Charles Baudelaire, Obsession Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Light thickens, And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The air increased in transparency with the lapse of minutes, till the topaz points showed themselves to be the vanes, windows, wet roof slates, and other shining spots upon the spires..." - Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"An hour wears away; the spires of the churches and roofs of the principal buildings are faintly tinged with the light of the rising sun, and the streets, by almost imperceptible degrees, begin to resume their bustle and animation." Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"High up in the steeple of an old church, far above the light and murmur of the town and far below the flying clouds that shadow it, is the wild and dreary place at night: and high up in the steeple of an old church, dwelt the Chimes I tell of." - Charles Dickens Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything!" - Bram Stoker, Dracula Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"In this one valley, where the life of the town goes most busily forward, there may be seen, shown one above and behind another by the accidents of the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"In Edinburgh, a large open street, or rather oblong square, surrounded by high houses, called the Grassmarket, was used for the same melancholy purpose." - Walter Scott, The Heart of MidLothian Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting..." - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Yesterday evening during a walk every little street noise, every glance directed at me, every photograph in a display case was more important to me than I was." - Franz Kafka, Diaries Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"There is no Edinburgh emigrant, far or near... but he or she carries some lively pictures of the mind, some sunset behind the Castle cliffs, some snow scene, some maze of city lamps, indelible in the memory and delightful to study in the intervals of toil." - RLS Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying." - T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The rays of the gas-lamps, feeble at first in their struggle with the dying day, had now at length gained ascendancy, and threw over every thing a fitful and garish lustre." - Edgar Allan Poe, The Man of the Crowd Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for" - John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The Old Town occupies a sloping ridge or tail of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul." - Wilfred Owen, As Bronze May Be Much Beautified Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish." - Mervyn Peake, Weird Shadows From Beyond Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare." - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Anywhere, anywhere, as long as it be out of this world!" - Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." - William Blake, Auguries of Innocence. Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude." - Samuel Johnson Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Houses live and die: there is a time for building And a time for living and for generation And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto."Eliot Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep." - Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"It was neither an old stronghold nor a new mansion, but a rambling pile consisting of innumerable small buildings closely packed together and of one or two storeys; if K. had not known that it was a castle he might have taken it for a little town." - Franz Kafka Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space." - Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light." - Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"It was a very narrow street - a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse." - George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen, Anthem Crossposted with @openvibe.social

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"Clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life." - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened..." - T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets: Burnt Norton

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows." - E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

"There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps." - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters