Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vi…

Diane Ackerman
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Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.5, Vintage
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, … ▶
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Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2011). A Natural History of the Senses, p.5, Vintage

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