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
Leave a commentJanuary 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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