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Sartre plunges earthily to the center of all this confusion. "Seeking excitement and pleasure," he explains, "Genet starts enveloping himself in his images as a polecat envelops itself in its odor." Darling Daintyfoot and Divine are projections of Genet's imagination, conjured up to excite himself as he lay in his prison cell in 1942. Genet began to record these autoerotic visions on the paper that the prison provided its inmates to manufacture paper bags. A guard burned the writing. Genet began again. The final result was Our Lady of the Flowers...
...Jackson, the "People's President," spent $50,000 removing every trace of aristocratic John Quincy Adams. Among the furnishings added by Jackson were $250 worth of spittoons. For his last reception in 1837, Jackson set out a monstrous 1,400-lb. cheese in the main entrance hall; the odor, it was said, lasted well into the next administration...
...cold absence of odor from smoke overhill...
...accident was a direct result of Martinis' swerving" from one lane to another; 4) he left the scene of the accident "without reporting or identifying himself" to police; 5) the police had reasonable grounds to believe that he was driving while drunk because he "had an odor of intoxicants on his breath, was incoherent, and was unsteady on his feet at least one half-hour after the occurrence of the accident." Then the Department of Motor Vehicles dealt out the hardest punishment within its reach: it revoked Martinis' driver's license. Eugene Kramon, a Manhattan slacks manufacturer...
...courtroom was filled on the first day. Whites crowded the downstairs section, chomping on wads of tobacco and spitting the juice into antebellum spittoons or, if these weren't available, on the floor. The odor of rank whiskey permeated the place. The faces were hard and mean, with thin, sharp noses, suspicious, light-colored eyes, leathery red necks. Above, in the balcony reserved for Negroes, commonly called the "buzard's roost," it was quiet, except for the occasional crying of a baby. Located on the second floor of the grotesque courthouse, which is made of red Geogia clay, the courtroom...