Eilidh

@adriftbelowwaves.bsky.social

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Late Gen X old soul. Books/art/film and historical whatnots enjoyer. Environmentalist and animal advocate. Intermittent archivist trying to hold on to truth in an increasingly fake world.

Cover image for 'A Chess Story' by Stefan Zweig, depicting a black and white image of a chess piece (knight) silhouetted against a fragmented chess board.
The cover image for the novel 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes. Featuring a stylised illustration of a white mouse with a red eye, within which we can see the outlines of a maze.
A close up photo of some stunningly blue forget-me-nots in bright sunlight
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
'The Sleeping Earth' by Catherine Hyde depicts a badger in its set beneath a frosted landscape bathed in silver moonlight.
Cover image for the novel 'The Prince of West End Avenue' by Alan Isler
A Spotify wrapped screenshot showing a listening age of 83
A black and white photo of French filmmaker Jacques Tati miming someone who, distracted by a newspaper, is about to bump into a lamppost.
A black and white photo of French filmmaker Jacques Tati smiling whilst posing in front of a white sculpture of a horse's head.
Cover image for 'The Inheritors' by William Golding, 1953.
Cover image for the book "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death on the Brink of the Millennium" by Carl Sagan.
A black and white cat lounges underneath a large bush with lots of bright red flowers
'As It Was: Pleasures, Landscapes and Justice' by Sybille Bedford.
A painting by Karl Hofer - Wanderer Im Schnee (Wanderer in the Snow). 1924. Painted in expressionist style. Winter scene, dark sky, bare and snow covered tree on left. Man wearing cape and long coat walking in snow, has a walking stick, black hat. https://jstor.org/stable/community.13867164.
Study for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”, Georges Seurat, 1884. https://jstor.org/stable/community.15998550
'Alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada
Students cheering. (n.d.). Colby College Special Collections. https://jstor.org/stable/community.1467533