Damien Hirst's sheep in formaldehyde won in 1995, Chris Ofili's cow-dung paintings took the prize in 1998 and Tracey Emin's unmade bed made last year's shortlist.

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The dwellers around him in the hamlet had also finished their dinners, and the smoke from cow-dung fires hung over the darkening roofs, a harsh spicy smell, like rough tobacco.

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It looks like the fantasy countryside on a fruit crate, but this one comes alive with pungent smells--a scent of apple flowers in the spring dawn, scythed hay, piles of cow dung drying for fuel on top of the walls (my first thought: climbing cows?).

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