Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Had nothing to say and said it": John Cage and the Circumlocution Office in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit"

On rereading Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and remembering my father as well as Alec Guinness as Mr. Dorrit

The missing attribution to a common quotation from Emily Dickinson – and the unquoted half of the sentence

Adding Elizabeth Bishop's reference to Lucky Strikes to the Wikipedia page about the cigarettes

Reading a note about reading Hans Magnus Enzensberger in 2004 and re-reading him in 2017

Palindromic dates and square and cube years: Calender numerology