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...smell of decaying corpses filled the air, and hope dwindled for finding more survivors of last Wednesday's earthquake in Soviet Armenia...
Chandler's greatest invention, however, may well have been Marlowe's constant adversary, California. Nobody has ever caught so well the smell of eucalyptus in the night or the treacherous lights and crooked streets of the L.A. hills. In Hollywood, city of false fronts and trick shoots, Chandler found the perfect location for investigating artifice, and with it the shadow side of the American dream of reinventing lives. The one time Marlowe enters a Hollywood stage, it is from the back, and that, in a sense, is his customary position: seeing glamour from behind, inspecting illusions from the inside...
...beat around the bush," sophomore George Polsky said. "We were like a school of pirahnas--as tonight's match clearly showed. When we smell blood, it's lights...
Calvino explores hearing and smell with comparable insight and deftness. In A King Listens, a monarch whose power depends on his remaining glued to his ! throne becomes a paranoiac, his mind an echo chamber of suspicion, as he is deprived of all stimuli -- save for the aural -- from beyond his hall. And in The Name, the Nose, three characters try to track down unknown women whose odors have intoxicated them...
...come to the end of it all. The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd, the sound bites, the flag factories and the cheap shots will all soon be behind us. Ahead of us will be either Continued Peace and Prosperity or The Best America That Has Yet to Come. Presumably, that...