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...cruel paradox, a painter who was the master of visual sensation-able to pack more concrete feeling of weight, rotation, sharpness, elasticity and vibration, color or smell into a shape than any other man of his time-found himself, at the end, painting with only the most tenuous relationship to the world...
Baseball is obviously the best dominant metaphor for a book of this kind. It's got everything: pioneer individualism and a territorial imperative much more basic than football's corporate effort; a hockey, circus atmosphere peculiar to the American brand of mass hysteria; a dying smell about it; a system for making heroes in the center spotlight; an evangelical twist. It's got politics and it's got religion...
...Perhaps they don't like the smell," Mears speculated...
...sick. The lab closed, the mice died. People went away." He recalls the day when FDA agents arrived with court orders to dismantle the accumulators. The elder Reich was cooperative but bitterly sarcastic. "I could feel the glow from Daddy's head," writes Peter. He could also smell the Johnson's Baby Oil which his father always used to relieve his chronic eczema...
...never quite equals the sense of freedom she absolutely needs. And so she ends up a poor little princess in the kingdom of transients: California, a land of real estate agents in fake Spanish haciendas, freeways choked with white Lincolns and plum Mercedes, and always and everywhere the fugitive smell of eucalyptus...