Describing scent
Two posts from the Journal.
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The yellow we both mean
I was writing the colour block for lemon and I stopped in the middle of the sentence. It had come out without any hesitation: the yellow of zest, not the yellow of the fruit. Then I read it back and asked by what right.
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Half Chemistry, Half Autobiography
You walk into a room and something shifts before you have a thought about it. The light is the same. The furniture has not moved. But the air carries a smell, and the rest of you registers it faster than your mind does.