In Virginia Woolf's novel "Jacob's Room" (1922), a Mrs. Norman first carefully observes a young man in her compartment on a train—and then forgets him at the station: "[...] this sight of her fellow-traveller was completely lost in her mind, as the crooked pin dropped by a child into the wishing-well twirls in the water and disappears for ever." In class today, while we were wondering whether crooked pins are often thrown into wishing wells, one student found another in a description of a woman in T. S. Eliot's poem "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" (1920): "[...] you see the corner of her eye / Twists like a crooked pin." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 23 September 2025)