This Wednesday, I'll be teaching "Hugo", Martin Scorsese's 2010 adaptation of Brian Selznick's graphic novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" (2007). I gave the students a handout with two tasks (find two moments to discuss, one visual and one verbal), plus another one for fun: "Easter eggs: 'Hugo' contains at least three brief appearances by historical figures from Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. See if you can spot one or more of them. " Since then, I've been pondering Easter eggs and wondering whether it's worth trying to rigorously distinguish them from allusions and intertexts—especially without just saying that Easter eggs are somehow less serious than the other two. (Andrew Shields, #111Words,29 March 2026)