http://elimare.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/scent-of-a-woman/ Thoughts, Fancies and Musings Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:43:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://elimare.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/scent-of-a-woman/#comment-457 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:47:49 +0000 http://elimare.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/scent-of-a-woman/#comment-457 Sounds sucktacular. I realise that it's one of the senses, and in my mind plays a huge part in my memories, but I hate when visual mediums try to express the smell of things. It's even more frustrating if they do it a play. Some character will say, "What's that smell?", and I'm left to think: "Well, it's the musty odor of several hundred people packed into an old building, mixed with the cleaning products that were half-heartedly used this morning and the air-conditioning system and..." By the time I return to the action of the play I find I've missed quite a bit. Sounds sucktacular. I realise that it’s one of the senses, and in my mind plays a huge part in my memories, but I hate when visual mediums try to express the smell of things. It’s even more frustrating if they do it a play. Some character will say, “What’s that smell?”, and I’m left to think: “Well, it’s the musty odor of several hundred people packed into an old building, mixed with the cleaning products that were half-heartedly used this morning and the air-conditioning system and…”
By the time I return to the action of the play I find I’ve missed quite a bit.

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