Logical Extremes

“ Smell is of all senses by far the most evocative: perhaps because we have no vocabulary for it — nothing but a few poverty-stricken approximations to describe the whole vast complexity of odour — and therefore the scent, unnamed and unnamable, remains pure of association; it cannot be called upon again and again, and blunted, bringing with it all the circumstances of its perception. ” -

Patrick O’Brien, Post-Captain (via ambivalence)

Reminiscent of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu).