Andrew Shields

Swifts, blackbirds, collared doves, and parrots in the Jardín del Turia in Valencia

On the (far too) sunny side of the street in Valencia

Visiting Spain, the 16th European country I have been to

Eliminating Affirmative Action in the United States as a restriction on membership in the country’s elite class

William James and the “harlot” of the “multiverse” in 1895

The “dgiaour” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939) and Lord Byron’s “Giaour” in Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” (1817)