Andrew Shields

Vieux Farka Touré at the Volkshaus Basel, 22 April 2024

Taylor Swift songs and Miss Havisham & Estella from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)

Cassandra in Greek mythology, Christa Wolf, and Taylor Swift (plus a pinch of Friedrich Nietzsche)

First listening to Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)

“In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” in memory of Dickey Betts (1943-2024)

Taylor Swift, Friedrich Nietzsche, and aphorisms