Word: aromas
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This loft area affords a perfect vantage point for peering down at all of the serious smokers. It is quite enjoyable to watch people vigorously inspecting and sniffing all of the cigars. A cigar is, after all, a long term commitment; you'll have that aroma on your clothes for the next five years...
...month, others show up several times in a day. A case of the latter is square-dweller George Despotes, who commented, "If you lose your marbles, it's a place to come. If things start to smell, it's also a place to come." Despotes, indeed, had his own aroma...
Toward the end, Guterson describes a lighthouse room that "smelled of salt water and snow and of the past," and that is very much the aroma of his richly atmospheric novel. Though movie ready in its pacing and narrative vividness, it is also unusually lived in, focused and compassionate. As its title suggests, Snow Falling on Cedars is poised at precisely that point where an elliptical Japanese delicacy meets the woody, unmoving fiber of the Pacific Northwest. Out of that encounter, Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true...
...acrid, urban stench of motor vehicle exhaust will be attenuated today by the sweet aroma of blossoming flowers at the corner of Bow and Plympton Streets...
...head, the body, the aftertaste, follow through, the aroma...