Monumental

Edinburgh has lots of monuments.This guy was a physicist. Not sure about the higher guy.

One of the things I like about Edinburgh is most of the statues I saw memorialised philosophers, writers, and scientists. You don’t see a lot of guys on horseback brandishing swords. In Ulster I’ve seen statues honouring military leaders who won a battle in India--which would have been a miserable slaughter of people whose main crime was being Indian--in India.

Where was I? Here’s the world’s largest monument to a writer. The Scott Monument honours Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet.

And this fellow is Allan Ramsay, playwright, publisher, wig-maker and poet responsible for reviving Scots vernacular in verse.

There’s no statue to Robert Louis Stevenson because he did not want one. I got this view of the castle as I left the conference last night:

Didn’t see and female Scottish statues. Maybe Nicola Sturgeon can get on rectifying that.
4-20