tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post9027261573633639822..comments2023-09-06T08:23:46.896-07:00Comments on oreneta aground (but missinaibi's afloat!): Smell, regional dictionaries and Housekeeping.orenetahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-23024505013237868122009-12-22T16:01:27.067-08:002009-12-22T16:01:27.067-08:00Jason, the smell was strange, and no we never did ...Jason, the smell was strange, and no we never did figure it out. Maybe the dog was farting??? Always a good excuse.<br /><br />Bodhi, smell....I love it, just can't name it. Weird. Housekeeping? I don't think it would have been the same book AT ALL if I wasn't the age I am with kids and some life experience. Although (that was weird, I was trying to write Catalan and couldn't come up with the English word!!!)...Encara que....although it is written from the child as narrator, it is written once the child has grown, and that perspective that the narrator has, of looking back, requires a reader who also has a certain amount of life experience and insight into the responses of the characters as they are so subtly played out. Loved it SO much.orenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-2131247602718059822009-12-22T08:52:26.917-08:002009-12-22T08:52:26.917-08:00ElP, I strongly suspect that the vocabulary for sm...ElP, I strongly suspect that the vocabulary for smells is much stronger in French than in English. Honestly. Look at the difference in the cooking and the wines. Cultures name what is important to them, no?orenetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616103982088424715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-25135774761766892832009-12-22T02:00:34.839-08:002009-12-22T02:00:34.839-08:00I've been to a wine tasting lesson recently. Y...I've been to a wine tasting lesson recently. You'd be amazed at the amount of names that exist for smells and aromas. Maybe you just didn't get a degree in olfactology, that's why you can't put the name on a smell (neither do I, by the way, or not much...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-74504744478532442212009-12-22T01:45:57.004-08:002009-12-22T01:45:57.004-08:00Ah yes...smell. So much can be said, no? Well, a...Ah yes...smell. So much can be said, no? Well, actually, no - not for you! I remember erasers we used to get in our Christmas stockings that had a particular smell (a good one) and every now and then it wafts past me but I can never find the source. I work with the most perfumed bunch of men I've ever known. Sometimes it knocks me off my chair and I have to leave the room. Yes, smell is something else! As for Housekeeping, I'm glad you are enjoying it, it got such great review but when I read it, it just didn't "fit" with me. I soldiered on and finished it but felt like I was dangling the whole time never being able to really enter into it.The Bodhi Chicklethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16516287894431519640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8311151968716514867.post-76227768629005851032009-12-21T19:36:16.571-08:002009-12-21T19:36:16.571-08:00Okay, so what was the smell? You never figured it...Okay, so what was the smell? You never figured it out? Strange...Jason, as himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630210317307544165noreply@blogger.com