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Living in the Maniototo deals with the past and what the author cryptically labels the "Present Historic." It is a tense that allows hallucination to mingle with reality. A man is attacked by a detergent: "There was a flash of light, a smell of laundry and the penetrating fumes of a powerful cleanser, then a neutral nothing-smell, not even the usual substituted forest glade or field of lavender or carnation, and all that remained of Tommy were two faded footprints on the floor...
...quite frightening. It terrified the cattle and horses, which circled their paddocks in fear. The dogs barked and went wild when the sonic booms followed. Then there were thumps-they must have been the biggest pieces crashing down. Finally, the house shook three times. Afterward, there was a burning smell...
...days apart in their cycles to 3.4 days, and four of the women synchronized to within one day of Genevieve's cycle. A control group of six dabbed only with alcohol showed no change. Russell is also testing whether mothers and babies can identify one another by smell. Says he: "It looks like there's something of very basic importance occurring via the olfactory sense...
...Smell experimenters admit that they have not yet proved much. As Russell points out, there is "no unifying theory on how the nose works and no money for experiments because you couldn't show any utility. But that's changing.' If so, Thomas may yet get his fragrance institute...
Eventually, Moulton will lower the chemical concentration to see how well gerbils really do smell, and whether they can replace the sharp-nosed hounds at airports. Dogs almost certainly have keener noses, but they require walking, petting and lots of love; gerbils obviously have simpler needs. Of course, the idea of gerbils snuggling up to airline passengers may seem slightly ludicrous. Shrugs Moulton: "That's the FAA'S problem...