Category Archives: authors
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Tsundoku, Eco, and Antilibraries
Leave a commentFebruary 25, 2021 by libroshombre
“He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, all of admirable flavor,” according to the Victorian writer …
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Zippy, Joyce, and Margaret
Leave a commentFebruary 21, 2019 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344 January 31, 2019 A recent Zippy the Pinhead comic strip reminded me of how …
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Swapping Spit, Being Cold, and Getting Smart
1January 27, 2015 by libroshombre
Vladimir Nabokov’s opinion that, “revelation can be more dangerous than revolution,” resonated after reading about several new scientific discoveries. The …
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Baron von Munchausen, Yip Harburg, and La Cava’s Bibliomotorcarro
Leave a commentApril 17, 2014 by libroshombre
Lone Star Ball is my favorite baseball blog, not only because it links to all the latest events surrounding the …
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Walpole’s Serendipity, Chaucer’s Murder, and Lifelong Learning
Leave a commentApril 3, 2014 by libroshombre
One of our culture’s great sources of serendipity, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable,” defines “serendipity “ as “a happy …
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Morphemes, Bashi-Bazouks, and Grawlixes
Leave a commentJanuary 30, 2014 by libroshombre
Libraries, those magnificent repositories of knowledge, are brimming with words of all sorts: written, spoken, sung, and projected. This is …
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