Tag Archives: William Shakespeare

  1. Alephs, Acrostics, and April

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    March 31, 2023 by libroshombre

                My handwriting’s always been bad, but these days it’s bordering on awful.  Perhaps I’m channeling my inner Phoenician for …
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    Category: alphabet, handwriting, poetry, poets, wordplay, writing, writing badly | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  2. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Tea, Twain, and Tomes

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    March 30, 2020 by libroshombre

    One’s personal collection of books, or lack thereof, is often interesting, hence my curiosity about other people’s libraries.  Perhaps a …
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    Category: books, booksellers, brain, drinks, libraries, library history, printers, tea, Uncategorized | Tags: , ,

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