Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

“The property of strangers” in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865) and “the kindness of strangers” in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947)

“Thingummies”, “whatdoyoucallums”, and “whatshisnames” in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)

“Gaslight” in the novels of Charles Dickens, especially “Our Mutual Friend” (1865)

Jorge Luis Borges and the theme of justifying one’s life

Puerto Rican songwriter Roy Brown’s songs based on poems by Juan Antonio Corretjer and other Puerto Rican poets

Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023), folk songs, and Bob Marley’s “War"