Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Edgar Allan Poe

 
 

I believe that odors have an altogether idiosyncratic force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight, or the hearing.

(Marginalia 48, in Edgar Allan Poe, The Brevities: Pinakidia, Marginalia, Fifty Suggestions, and Other Works,
edited with introduction and notes by Burton R. Pollin, The Gordian Press, New York, 1985)

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