What if a roommate snores or what if he smells or doesn't stop talking?
Every summer, when he smells the first sweet tomato from his yard, he remembers a story from several years ago, involving tomatoes, basil, olive oil, champagne and a light bulb.
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When you hear that the man in the photo is a baker, that fact gets embedded in a whole network of ideas about what it means to be a baker: He cooks bread, he wears a big white hat, he smells good when he comes home from work.
He probably smells bad, but the only one who seems to notice is the oldest child, a girl, thirteen.
Even though he writes of the rough physical conditions and the rigors of his training, his face glowed as he talked about the smells and sounds of the camp.
"This smells, this really smells, " he said of the FAA's apparently lax oversight of Valujet before the crash.
But he still lives and works in the countryside, where an assistant airs errant smells out of his studio before he arrives, then prepares test blotters for him to sniff.
"It must be first-class olive oil, so it smells Spanish, " he says.
"We've given them something that smells like physics to work with, " he said.
"It probably smells like a good two days of sweat, " he said.
But the most startling thing about Turin's guide was the precision with which he translated a sensual experience into words (Gucci's Rush "smells like an infant's breath mixed with his mother's hair spray").
And, this way, for the rest of his life -- be it in the fraternity house, his bachelor pad, or his family's home, as he frantically tries to feed his own growing offspring -- when he opens that front door, smiles at the delivery person, and smells the chicken and broccoli in brown sauce, the kid will think of me.
If Turin wanted to work on this using his algorithm, he'd start with one of patchouli's components--say, a molecule that smells earthy or woody--and try varying its structure in small ways.
The smells from below meant something related to that, and they made him restless and agitated as he wandered the woods, impulsively sprinting after every rabbit and squirrel he saw.
"It smells, it hisses... everything about it, it's totally different, " he added.
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