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...produce or shop for their needs; huddled protectively in the railway stations between trains, they exude the musty smell of damp wool, onions, bitter tobacco and accumulated sweat that has blanketed Russia far longer and more pervasively than Marxism...
...once-slumbering towns -Mt. Gilead, Cardington and Edison, roughly 40 miles north of Columbus-dusty station wagons from several states competed for parking spaces. Husky, plastic-helmeted men searched for scarce furnished rooms. The night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should it? It has become the smell of wealth, the sweet odor of Ohio's first oil boom since the turn of the century...
...feet in front of him. In the grass flats, you let the lure drift, and hope he'll pick it up. In the rocky bottoms, you twitch it a little to catch his attention, because he's going by sight rather than by smell. But if a bonefish wants the bait, he won't nose around much-he'll just strike...
...student, no institution is dearer than his library and its friendly circulation desk. On the night before a final exam his love of the place is unbounded, surmounting even smell, wonks, and inscrutable lighting. Last night the love was unrequited because of a few gentle snowflakes. Not rain nor sleet nor snow will stop the United States Mail. The men who staff Lamont are not made of such stern stuff...
...sisters' airless quarters with the animals, the stench becomes overpowering, but outside the smell is worse: surrounding the bobbing ark is an endless expanse of bloated, rotting human corpses. Once, the ark floats over what must have been a large city, for "the inhabitants had surfaced with much of their household furniture: there were tables, chairs, bedsteads, washtubs . . ." When the ark at last comes to rest on Mount Ararat, the twins slip away with one of Noah's grandsons, Gomer, into a lonely and devastated world...