Category Archives: odors

  1. Nose Blindness, Toilet Plumes, and a Golden Nose

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    September 21, 2024 by libroshombre

                Ah, lovely serendipity abounds!  Reading about nose blindness led to researching Tycho Brahe’s golden nose and wound up exposing a lot …
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  2. Sillage, Szag, and Japanese Toilets

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    August 5, 2018 by libroshombre

    ““Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it,” according to Vladimir Nabokov. That’s …
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  3. Odors, Cursive, and Reading

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    June 8, 2017 by libroshombre

      Reading a new library book by Keith Houston titled “The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the most Powerful Object …
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    Category: books, cursive, handwriting, libraries, odors, old books, printing, typography, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  4. Old Books, New Books, and Guys Read

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    January 16, 2017 by libroshombre

      Most booklovers enjoy the fragrance of old books, and many also like the odor of new books. A local …
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