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Oh great. So now those pretentious people who like to describe wine with “a heady nose and iconic banana afterburn” will be doing it to books too?
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Just smell at it.
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Art Of The Deal = flatulence. Got it.
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I don’t know what it is that does it, and this is definitely TMI, but being surrounded by old books has a certain… loosening effect on me.Was not good when I was working in the stacks at UCSB.
As an aside, this has made me realize there might be something to aromatherapy. If old book smell can cause a negative physical result like that, then it’s reasonable hypothesize that some aromas might cause positive effect.
No flatulence, but they do have Fishy/Rancid - Poo in there.
They also have Fishy/Rancid -> Trash, which doesn’t even begin to cover it.
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Science behind the naughty librarian?
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