Tag Archives: patrick O’Brian
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Harry Stuff, Stargazy Pie, and Escapism
Leave a commentMay 16, 2020 by libroshombre
Horror writer maintained that, “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality,” …
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Kakistocracy. Raubwirtschaft, and Whipping Machines
Leave a commentJune 8, 2017 by libroshombre
When my beloved Texas Rangers baseball team established a new American League record recently for striking out at least …
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Flogging, Peacocks, and Thicknesse
Leave a commentMay 14, 2017 by libroshombre
Teaching an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute class on Patrick O’Brian was more involved than anticipated. Having read (and listened …
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Brand, Fangled, and New
Leave a commentJanuary 16, 2017 by libroshombre
The sun shines constantly on new vistas for those on the lookout, and even heavily-trodden paths. I’ve lost count of …
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Deep Reading, Lizard Feet, and Tough Cookies
Leave a commentAugust 30, 2016 by libroshombre
Those immersed in the reading life know an engrossing dance of words and concepts can induced by good writing, …
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Library Litotes, Data-Overload, and the Pollyanna Hypothesis
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2015 by libroshombre
There are more than a few books in our public library, and its print books aren’t going away anytime soon. …
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Tree Asps, Knock-knock Jokes, and Surprising Books
Leave a commentJanuary 5, 2015 by libroshombre
The powerful 17th century French nobleman Francois de La Rochefoucauld made a sad commentary on his life when he wrote, …
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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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