Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Participating in and attending events at the BuchBasel literature festival, 15-17 November 2024

Turning 22,000 days old

Don Q speaks to crowds and empty rooms

A “tattoo” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” and the annual Basel Tattoo

The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments

The playwright “Colman” and the actor “Bannister” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880)