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Written mostly in exile in the Shetland Isles, MacDiarmid's study of individual eccentrics became a study of individualism, eccentricity and national indentity. The book focuses on ten characters from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries but shorter sketches of other individuals are also included. lt culminates in an epilogue on the \"Strange Procession\" of men and women whose characteristic qualities display the unpredictable energies and extremes of human behaviour associated with \"The Caledonian Antisyzygy\" - the close association of gargoyle and saint. First published in 1936, \"Scottish Eccentrics\" was reprinted in 1972 in a limited edition which quickly went out of print. 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