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  1. Actaeon’s Dogs, Reading Neurobiologically, and de Gaulle

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    November 2, 2025 by libroshombre

    The eminently browsable Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has revealed Ovid’s list of the fifty dogs who were once …
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    Category: animals, books, dogs, libraries, literacy, mythology, paper, print, reading, reading brain | Tags: , , , ,

  2. Oldest Languages, Harmful Tablets, and Cryptomnesia

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    March 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                Robert Louis Stevenson might have been right when he claimed that “Language is but a poor bull’s eye lantern …
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    Category: deaf-mute, deafness, hearing, languages, linguistics | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  3. Davy Crockett, Inquisitions, and Bad Ideas

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    February 5, 2025 by libroshombre

                Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude.  As Hoffa put it, “I may have my faults, …
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    Category: book banning, book burning, book clubs, reading, reading brain, reading well | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  4. Doryphoric Pedantry, Reading Brains, and Sans Serif

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    September 30, 2015 by libroshombre

    My inner doryphore emerges whenever someone claims that emergence of computers means that “this is the end of print books.” …
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    Category: reading, signage, typography | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  5. Confusing English, Difficult Reading, and Bad Politics

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    May 6, 2015 by libroshombre

    The Atlantic Monthly is such a good magazine that I subscribe to it, even though I can read it, and …
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    Category: politics, reading | Tags: , , , , ,

  6. Tree Asps, Knock-knock Jokes, and Surprising Books

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    January 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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    Category: books, humor, insects, reading, words | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  7. Old Water, Tear Topography, and Why Geezers Grin

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    December 25, 2014 by libroshombre

    “Water is the driving force of all nature,” observed Leonardo da Vinci, and earth’s water predates the sun, according to …
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    Category: aging, libraries, reading, reading brain | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

  8. New Books To Foist Off Alzheimer’s

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    July 3, 2014 by libroshombre

    “The Wells Fargo wagon is a-coming” theme from “The Music Man” always resounds in the background as I drive home …
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    Category: comics, health, memory, reading, reading well | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  9. Awareness, Curios Children, and Margaret Wise Brown

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    May 22, 2014 by libroshombre

    Brazilian author Paul Coelho wrote that “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day …
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    Category: children, children's books, reading | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  10. Grammar Nazis, Word Power, and Shakespeare’s Library

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    May 8, 2014 by libroshombre

    Truly, I’m no grammar nazi. I’ve known real ones – some of my best friends are grammatical storm troopers – …
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    Category: lirbaries, parts of speech, printing, rare books, shakespeare | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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