Tag Archives: Nero Wolfe
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Fires, Bookmarks, and Leaky Privies
2February 3, 2023 by libroshombre
It’s sometimes interesting while reading a book to reflect upon the chain of prior readings that led you there. …
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Humaning, Nero, and Obscure Sorrows
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2022 by libroshombre
Once long ago my mother read to me every night at bedtime, and she also read to herself a lot: …
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Nero, Thi, and Horatio
Leave a commentSeptember 25, 2018 by libroshombre
It’s true that lately I go to bed nightly with a corpulent, orchid-loving genius: Nero Wolfe, the best literary …
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Stinkers, Dictators, and Egg Spoons
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
People appearing to be real stinkers might simply be under the sway of their microbes. After all, BBC.com’s James …
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Cryptogamists, Eructers, and Wykyn de Worde
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
As Welsh poet George Herbert rightly noted in the 1600s, “Good words are worth much, and cost little,” but sometimes …
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Anu, Dana, and Nero
Leave a commentFebruary 5, 2018 by libroshombre
Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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