Andrea Blackie

@andreablackie.bsky.social

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Canadian in Scotland / Flâneuse / Bilingual bibliophile, erstwhile editor

The cover of the David Lynch book ‘Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity’,
Entry info for the word ‘velvet’ in the Middle English Compendium, showing multiple forms of the word’s spelling and its etymology.
The interior of the Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh. In the foreground, the Robert Maxwell-themed board game ‘Daily Mission’; in the background, leather armchairs, bookshelves and a spiral staircase.
A painting of an orange cat playing the bagpipes, in a quasi-medieval style
The poem “Maeshowe: Midwinter” by Orkney poet George Mackay Brown.
An excerpt from Anne Carson’s novel in verse Autobiography of Red. The poem is titled ‘XIX. FROM THE ARCHAIC TO THE FAST SELF’ and begins: “Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. He woke fast from a loud wild dream that vanished at once and lay listening to the splendid subtle ravines of Hades where hardworking dawn monkeys were wheedling and baiting one another up and down the mahogany trees. The cries took little nicks out of him. This was when Geryon liked to plan his autobiography, in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestrial crust of the earth which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures.”