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Seferis's allusions to the feverish mood of people and politicians reveal a curious mix of irony and resignation. "At the Ministry yesterday morning: I seemed to smell the pharmaceutical emissions of a hospital. It's an intense sensation that grabs me by the nostrils, as though I'm in some refuge for rare neurotics." The poet allows himself an awareness of the social climate only through the screen of his own detachment. On a New Year's Eve in Athens he is appalled by the chaos and aimlessness of a raucous crowd; yet he writes as though the lack...
...fondle books almost as tenderly as I do women, and in these hours I wander up and down the Coop's aisles, my fingers get a good workout. The silkiness of untouched pages, the uncreased bindings smooth like a pond on a summer's day, the rugged smell of newsprint only shortly removed from the presses, all make for an experience sensual in its own perverse way. At times, when I feel certain no one is looking, I lift an open text to my face and inhale deeply, and, like Marcel Proust biting into a tea-soaked madeleine, I receive...
...covers, you shudder at the sudden bite of the thick moist air settling in the wintry streets of a European capital. The three-story facades of workers' houses are depressing in their black-sooted brick, and the smoke emanating from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets are being passed out on the street, and, as you lean over to grab one...someone knocks a copy of "Beyond the Melting Pot" off a shelf above you, it catches you on the shoulder, and you are back again, with nothing other than your course...
...response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your ears as you walk to put pellets of feed in place for a new experiment. The smell is a bit overpowering, but this anticipation of finding the missing link to your conception of a society governed by three simple, incontravertible rules makes you forget all the trials, the dead-ends you have had to tolerate over the years. A career of work is about to reach...
...there any way out of the dilemma? Intimations of immortality still infuse your soul, and the whiff of greatness is almost as strong as the smell of print in Samuelson. But, on the other hand, you're not willing to sacrifice the pleasures necessary if you want to climb the ladder of academic success. There are the movies that you've heard so much about but never seen, the trips to New Hampshire and Vermont, the bars and restaurants of Cambridge and Boston, walks along the river and talks with friends. Are these simple experiences, these fleeting moments of sensual...