| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 9, 2005, 12:38 |
On Friday 08 April 2005 10:53 CEST, B. Garcia wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 10:46 PM, Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@hotmail.com <mailto:geoffhorswood@...>> wrote: > > Metallic - I know that copper coins (or at least American > coinage) can have this distinct smell. You could break it > further into smells like "rust" Not only American coinage and not only copper coins. I hate this rusty smell. Even soap does not always help. > Just a few ideas :) Not language related, but smell related (might be interesting to read for you, Geoff): Do you know Patrick Süskind's "Das Parfum" (The Perfume)? The story takes place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. The protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a bastard, born by a market woman, has no own body odour, but can smell a thousand times better than ordinary people -- he is a genius in a way, but his character is absolutely absurd, he is totally crazy and very cruel. Grenouille's master plan is to brew a truely vicious perfume made from the body odour of 24 (26?) virgins that makes people love him although he's the personified evil. I found this book quite entertaining, but since we had to read it in class two years ago, many people didn't like it. Carsten -- Edatamanon le matahanarà benenoea eibenem ena Bahis Tingraena, 15-A8-58-1-3-16-16 ena Curan Tertanyan. » http://www.beckerscarsten.de/?conlang=ayeri
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