Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

On threads on Mastodon

On the difficulty level of reading books in Spanish (with my intermediate skills)

To colorful holidays and a colorful new year

"All the people in Newcastle, all on the train wore these face-masks": The Spanish flu pandemic in Les Murray's "Fredy Neptune" (1999)

"Your use / of Bayesian inference // in the history of slavery": Alfred H. Conrad, "The Economics of the Antebellum South", and Adrienne Rich's "Winterface"

Reading Adam Zagajewski's "Spróbuj opiewać okaleczony świat" in seven languages