Monthly Archives: October 2015

  1. Bubbles, Words, and Colors

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    October 27, 2015 by libroshombre

    “This world’s a bubble,” according to Saint Augustine, and I think he nailed it. I recently read a Slate.com article …
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  2. Frustration, Anxiety, and Guff

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

    “I was an accomplice in my own frustration,” the English playwright and screenwriter Peter Shaffer once wrote, and to some …
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  3. Pullation, Holophrasm, and Cekoslovakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmissiniz

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    October 19, 2015 by libroshombre

                People who look for them find that new, amusing, and useful words seem to pullulate.  A.Word.A.Day, that fount of …
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  4. Unstoppable Change, Ain’t Onus, and Catalog Cards

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    October 17, 2015 by libroshombre

    “Change,” as Benjamin Disraeli pointed out, “is inevitable. Change is constant.” Ain’t it though? There was a time when “ain’t” …
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