...sing where I can be heard or look directly at what I want to see. I like back doors and back streets. My heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here; my heart's in the highlands out chasing the deer. I find places at the backs of closets where I can sit and hold my own hand in...

...Highlands (1790) del poeta scozzese Robert Burns (1759-1796), a sua volta basata su fonti popolari: "My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; / My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; / Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe; / My heart's in the Highlands,...

...below! Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods! Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods! My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe@ My heart's in the Highlands wherever...

...it was still the voice of Davie Gellatley that made the following lines resound under the window:My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands wherever...

...below; Farewell to the forest and wild-hanging woods; Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe; My heart's in the Highlands, wherever...

...stalking. Occasionally, I'd look out of the window at the questing metropolitan traffic wardens and hum, "My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here. My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer." But I'd take a drag and think that I'd made the right choice, that urban, cultivated...

...declivitous moor to the lochan's edge. 59 Whenever I shall recall those lines quoted by both Scott and Burns: My heart's in the Highlands, My heart is not here My heart's in the Highlands A-chasing the deer then my thoughts shall return to Glen Etive. Northward rise Buachaille Etive Mor...