Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Books I’ve been re-reading for courses and exams, and a note on “Great Expectations” and “The Great Gatsby"

“The monstrous semblance of a novel” in Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962)

The “Acres of Perhaps” in Emily Dickinson’s “Their Hight in Heaven comforts not”

The “grand Sylvain”, the “Poplar Admirable” (or Admiral), and the “Grosser Eisvogel” in Léon-Paul Fargue, Vladimir Nabokov, and Anne Duden

Tracing a phrase from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962) to François Rabelais and Tomas Tranströmer

Jan Lundgren and Hans Beckenroth’s duo arrangement of “She’s Leaving Home”, by The Beatles