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...London, Paula Perks quit her job in a perfume shop, explained that the smell "got me down," went back to pig farming...
...have much news sense. After a trip to Sutter's Mill, he reported in his weekly Star that the great gold strike was "all a sham, as superb a take-in as ever was got up to guzzle the gullible." The rival Californian had no sense of smell, either. For seven weeks, the Californian and the Star ignored the big news. Then they had to shut up shop. Every gullible soul in town had gone tearing off to the gold fields, leaving nobody to buy a paper...
...When He's Down. At this point the other enemies of promise smell blood and close in. While Mr. Shelleyblake is struggling to write the book that he is in fact incapable of writing, he gets a warm note from "Mr. Vampire," a literary editor: "I was so interested to meet you the other night . . . [I have been] looking for someone to [review] the Nonesuch Boswell, and your name cropped up." Mr. Shelleyblake is flattered, and relieved to lay aside his dreadful novel; and his review is enjoyed by all. Unfortunately, his new novel, when at last it appears...
...Lost." Kolachi village, on the way, no longer smoked but the smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields...
...purely technical sense-"comes in two ways: 1) by accurate tips, diligently followed up; 2) by doping out a story for yourself, then confronting some knowing source with it to see if you're on the right track. Generally I just operate with a sense of smell: if something smells wrong, I go to work...