{"id":91727,"date":"2015-11-09T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91727"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:27:29","slug":"bring-on-the-dedicated-smell-words-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/bring-on-the-dedicated-smell-words-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the Dedicated Smell Words, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91728\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nude_smelling_flowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91728\" class=\"wp-image-91728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nude_smelling_flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nude_smelling_flowers.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nude_smelling_flowers-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Th\u00e9venaz, <i>Untitled<\/i> (Nude smelling flowers), 1922.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in language and sensory perception: the verdict is in and English is a laughably inadequate language when it comes to describing scents. We must close the smell deficit, giving the olfactory its due in a mad rush of neologism. \u201cIn English, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2015\/11\/the-vocabulary-of-smell\/414618\/\" target=\"_blank\">there are only three dedicated smell words\u2014<em>stinky<\/em>, <em>fragrant<\/em>, and <em>musty<\/em>\u2014and the first two are more about the smeller\u2019s subjective experience<\/a> than about the smelly thing itself \u2026 the Jahai people of Malaysia and the Maniq of Thailand use between twelve and fifteen dedicated smell words \u2026 <em>ltpit<\/em> describes the smell of a binturong or bear cat\u2014a two-meter-long animal that looks like a shaggy, black-furred otter, and that famously smells of popcorn \u2026 Another word is used for the smell of petrol, smoke, bat droppings, some species of millipede, the root of wild ginger, the wood of wild mango, and more. One seems specific to roasted foods. And one refers to things like squirrel blood, rodents, crushed head lice, and other \u2018bloody smells that attract tigers.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>In her quest to compile a kind of contemporary <em>ars moriendi<\/em>, Robyn K. Coggins has taken an exhaustive survey of how people would like to die: \u201cSometimes I think <a href=\"http:\/\/wilsonquarterly.com\/quarterly\/transitions\/whats-the-best-way-to-die\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting sniped while walking down the street is the best way to go<\/a>. Short, sweet, surprising; no worries, no time for pain. Sure, it\u2019d be traumatic as hell for the people nearby, but who knows\u2014your death might spark a social movement, a yearlong news story that launches media, legal, and criminal justice careers. What a death!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I can think of where <em>not <\/em>to die: in Gore Vidal\u2019s pool, which has apparently fallen into disuse. \u201cThe pool was \u2026 filled with dead fish with bruised purple backs hovering beneath the dark green surface. Abandoned sun chairs lay by the side.\u201d You can change all that, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/08\/inside-gore-vidal-s-cliffside-palace-of-sex-scandal-and-celebrity.html?source=TDB&amp;via=FB_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Vidal\u2019s 10,500-square-foot property on the Amalfi coast, La Rondinaia, is for sale<\/a> for a cool $21.1 million. Invite me over once you\u2019ve fixed the place up. Don\u2019t let me die in the pool.<\/li>\n<li>Far beyond the walls of the academy, poets like Tyler Knott Gregson are pouring their hearts out online, putting forth page after page of unvarnished verse. They\u2019ve found that most coveted thing: a wide readership. Gregson\u2019s new book of haiku has a first printing of a hundred thousand copies; he \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/08\/business\/media\/web-poets-society-new-breed-succeeds-in-taking-verse-viral.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\">belongs to a new generation of young, digitally astute poets whose loyal online followings have helped catapult them onto the best-seller lists, where poetry books are scarce<\/a>. These amateur poets are not winning literary awards, and most have never been in a graduate writing workshop \u2026 Their appeal lies in the unpolished flavor of their verses, which often read as if they were ripped from the pages of a diary \u2026 The rapid rise of Instapoets probably will not shake up the literary establishment, and their writing is unlikely to impress literary critics or purists who might sneer at conflating clicks with artistic quality. But they could reshape the lingering perception of poetry as a creative medium in decline.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the late eighties, the artist Kembra Pfahler decided to sneak subversive commentary into the most accessible vehicle around: a rock band. \u201cThe first performance I ever did \u2026 was when I came home and looked around and there was nothing in the house except an egg. There wasn\u2019t anything to use, I didn\u2019t have a guitar, I had an egg. So I stood on my head and cracked an egg over it \u2026 I decided in 1989 to start a classic rock band \u2026 so I could slide the imagery into the consciousness of the viewer a little easier. <a href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/7724115\/kembra-pfahler\" target=\"_blank\">This was The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black<\/a> \u2026 The band allowed me to squeeze in all the strange images I\u2019d been working on for all these years, what I now call my \u2018manual of action,\u2019 my own vocabulary of images: the sewn vagina; the egg piece; all of the costumes, like Abra Kedavour; the flowing anal bead shirt; the shark piece; the upside down Crucifix piece, where I hang upside down on the cross; the wall of vagina; the bowling ball piece. 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