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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I love the smell of new books. When I was a kid, we had very few new books, and when I got one and was sniffing it, my mother said it would probably give me brain damage. Since I never once saw her read a book, and I read constantly, I guess she was right.
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Perhaps your mum meant "damage" in the same way that a sculptor "damages" a block of marble.
I do remember one smell of books I disliked, and they were the (generally science-related) textbooks at school. Now, you might, with reasonable assumption, cite Pavlovian Reflex with that one too, but science classes were about the only thing I liked about school. No, it was that, whether it was the glue, or bleach, or ink, or whatever, they always seemed to reek of vomit.
Cheers,
Marc