Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Your body renews itself every seven years”: An idea that’s been around at least since John Dos Passos’s novel “Manhattan Transfer” (1925)

Reafference, exafference, and a possible origin of the mind (thanks to Ed Yong’s “An Immense World”)

My imaginary eleven-piece band for a joint country-pop tour by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift

Hapax legomena in Taylor Swift’s “crumpled masterpiece”, “All Too Well (Ten-Minute Version)"

The shirt in Walter Benjamin’s Franz Kafka essay and the scarf in Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well"

My students and the animal imagery in a passage about Mr. Bounderby in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)