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Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...direction was not infallible. The way his mind worked-and this seems the probable method of homing birds and animals-must be this: without his being conscious of the details he was able to register automatically every turn he made, every landmark he saw, every fixed sound and smell he perceived...
...officered Guardia Nacional worked till the soles burned off their shoes carrying stretchers, pulling bodies from the wreckage, fighting the flames. In three days after the earthquake more than 800 bodies had been buried or accounted for. But there could be no more burials. Managua was beginning to smell. The patrols searching for bodies now carried cans of kerosene which they poured on corpses where found. The smell of cremation now mingled with the smell of decay...
...shops to Hollywood to design clothes for cinemactresses, received newsgatherers. She was attired in red sports clothes and wore a five-strand pearl necklace, ten bracelets. She said, among other things: "The perfume which many women use is not mysterious. Women are not flowers. Why should they want to smell like flowers? I like roses, and the smell of the rose is very beautiful, but I do not want a woman to smell like a rose...
...pictures tell in quiet and graphic prose about the little fishing villages flattened on the edge of the Red Sea; pelicans floating like foam-patches in the nervous water; skinny brown fishermen bringing in their shallow boats, piled with the flashing, heavy silver bodies of fish. You can smell the hot breath of Sanaa, see its turbaned merchants, Jewish watchmakers, fleabitten curs, and bearded princes. Al-Yemen reproduces a life apparently contemporaneous with the events described in the New Testament, but having no connection with them. Best shot: Hodeda's ship-bristling harbor...