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If you're ever in Edinburgh, this is an excellent place to visit and spend an afternoon. One of the funniest parts was upon walking in the door, the gentleman who greeted me asked "What kind of engineer are you?" Very worthwhile.

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Shamefully, I grew up in Edinburgh, am an EE, my Dad was an EE, also lived in Edinburgh, and I never knew there was a Maxwell house there. I suppose I assumed he only lived on his estate or in Cambridge. There's a statue of him at the end of George St also.

Could have been a good thing you didn't know about it. The house might be haunted by demons.

It's now proven that demons never could have dwelt there.

You can be forgiven for not remembering this, since there's a cost to accumulating information.

Does he ask everyone, or do you just have the je ne sais quoi of an engineer?

He is sorting visitors into two distinct rooms.

There’s a room on the left and another on the right

Ha, kind of makes sense though. I can’t remember where I heard it but there’s a quote about him being the greatest scientist the average person has never heard of or something like that.

And of course, everyone should go to Edinburgh....

But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream

Fitful and dark,

Unseizable in Leith

And wildered by the Forth,

But irresistibly at last

Cleaving to sombre heights

Of passionate imagining

Till stonily,

From soaring battlements,

Earth eyes Eternity

Where is this from? I find Edinburgh cemetery to be a wierdly welcoming tourist attraction.

It's the poem Edinburgh by Hugh MacDiarmid:

https://nishsrivastava.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/edinburgh-by...

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