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Andrew Shields

A Basler from Detroit.

My first “favorite movie”: George Roy Hill’s “The Sting” (1973), with Robert Redford and Paul Newman

"Either I am a great writer or a nincompoop”: Virginia Woolf, “nincompoop”, Sebastian Brant, and Basel

Lyrics setting up the instrumental break in Greg Brown’s “Brand New ’64 Dodge” (1994)

“Onamatterpoetic” in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939)

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

My gradual reception of Swedish director Lasse Hallström’s work