Category Archives: toilets

  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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    Category: odors, public libraries, senses, smells, toilets | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  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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    Category: odors, old books, smells, toilets, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  3. Bad Boys and Girls, Who’s Who, and Mr. Toilet

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    January 8, 2015 by libroshombre

    “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare once asked. That’s what School Stickers, a British company, wanted to know. School Stickers sells …
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    Category: books, names, toilets | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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