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...snowy Chicago parking lot for Kmart, I have an epiphany: hobby shops. My confidence renewed, I make my way to two odd stores that smell like diesel and boys. Same story at both: no Polar Express trains until February. "Ha! Good luck," says the owner of Grayland Station. He slips me the card of a friend's shop that had one set as of last night. From my car, I dial my cell phone with frozen fingers. The woman who answers tells me I am lucky: I'll be No. 58 on her waiting list. The Toy Station...
...with whom she has a "relationship." "The Other," a poem about infidelity, begins with the line "You come in late, wiping your lips"--an opening-bell knockout. Rarely is the façade of marital bliss shown up so bleakly as in "The Detective": "This is the smell of years burning, here in the kitchen/ These are the deceits, tacked up like family photographs,/ And this is a man, look at his smile." These are powerful poems, not outtakes and B sides, and if they expose Plath's personal pain, they also enrich our sense of her state of mind...
After farmer Monmouton sighs that he could do with a vacation in Paris, all his animals squeeze into his truck and beep impatiently. They're ready for a break too. The entourage descends on Paris and quickly fans out--the goats to smell (and sometimes taste) the flowers in the Luxembourg Gardens, the cows to gaze at paintings of cows in the Louvre, the hens to cackle at the cancan dancers at the Folies Bergère. One of the joys of Stock's exuberant watercolors is the absolute sangfroid with which waiters, pedestrians and other Parisians greet this animal invasion...
...forget to do basic things like brush your teeth. Your blue jeans are stiff from six continuous weeks of wear, and your Harvard hoodie reeks of curry chicken, last night’s preferred dinner option. Rather than wash it you spray on another layer of cologne. You smell like a stale perfume sample in Vanity Fair and your once smooth complexion is rough with stubble and acne.†The Ghost takes me to late November and extracts a blood sample. Analysis reveals it is 75% Dunkin Donuts coffee and 25% grease...
...explosion of blossoms. And for Marc Jacobs' second scent, Blush, the name is self-explanatory. Pink isn't the only common message in these bottles?they also all feature floral top notes with heavy accents of jasmine and orange flower. With the onset of winter, you can already smell spring...