Thread: The smell of books..... ?
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Old 03-31-2009, 08:21 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
I don't "smell" books, any more than I "taste" driving, "watch" radio newscasts or "feel" television.
I smell books, and I taste through the air vents the air we are passing through in the car, and I watch the radio, particularly during items I am most emotionally attached to to focus my body and my mind on a source, and I "feel" the the light and sounds of the television in my spine and my face or even so far as holding my hand just barely above the screen.

I don't find decay disgusting, but, rather, beautifully part of, for instance the fecundity of my garden, or the transience of memory or life. My body innately rejects the odour of decaying animal flesh, but I do not reject an odour simply because it is decay. "So it goes".

But that's me - one minuscule data point in a sea of senses. Everyone builds their own mindscape, and uses whatever means they see fit.

Cheers,
Marc (licking the screen)
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