<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/41a1a9cd-d9f3-48d7-b342-f39c328b1608/964EFA34-931B-457C-803E-3E7B11849199/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/" href="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/" style="font-size: 11px;">self.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><H2 class="post-title">Reeling Through Auld Reekie</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><P>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND — This modern Parnassus, Robert Louis Stevenson maintained, was a city that has many admirers but few true lovers. He may have made his remarks in a <EM>feuillton</EM> of a guide written in the 1890s, but I’m with him on that — and I have the Jekyll/Hyde thing as well. Mostly, I like to admire Edinburgh from afar; although there are those legions of admirers, personally I find a certain frigidity to the elegance of the New Town, a sense that these superb townhouses were built to be the stalls of enlightened horses, who clopped over the cobbles ruminating on the reconciliation of faith and reason.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/116C8053-99E7-424F-BA64-1BA966DB7B75" alt="Author Photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/5CA53A43-734C-4BB0-ACDE-FEBFD8A20BC6" alt="View from room No. 206." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/3B0290D7-B989-4FBE-98A6-48DAC43315F5" alt="Under the stands for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><SPAN class="caption">Under the stands for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. (Will Self)</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/A26813D4-B1DC-41C2-ACAF-15BA66FCE0A2" alt="Arthur's Seat." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><SPAN class="caption">Arthur’s Seat. (Will Self)</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/self.blogs.nytimes.com/img/C1050AF6-730A-4F6E-921E-C8C8EAD63B52" alt="Leith Walk." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://self.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/reeling-through-auld-reekie/"><SPAN class="caption">Leith Walk. 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