tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post3073812219073748367..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: Smelly EliotAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-42785938040005221442013-03-04T04:23:26.436-07:002013-03-04T04:23:26.436-07:00Like Freud would say "sometimes cigar is just...Like Freud would say "sometimes cigar is just a cigar..."<br />So chestnuts were just chestnuts...but if you would like it to be chest & nuts, no problemo! As long as it doesn't get you mad to a point of talking to yourself...pretending it is ED...I would accept a freudian concept of ID thou...basic instinctual drives...we can play Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone...hummm<br />in a way, it is all about sex... ;-)+ Q Perfume Bloghttp://www.maisqueperfume.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-83219055491582454392013-03-03T17:22:02.990-07:002013-03-03T17:22:02.990-07:00Guerilla Perfumer:
I think you're onto someth...Guerilla Perfumer:<br /><br />I think you're onto something with the bordello. So I'll push my thesis a bit harder (sorry, +Q!).<br /><br />The poem's settings are interior: shuttered rooms, corridors, bars.<br /><br />Its smells are those of human effluvia trapped indoors: female smells, cigarettes, cocktail smells, dust, dry geraniums, old nocturnal smells, female smells.<br /><br />Ergo, "smells of chestnuts in the streets" more likely to be spermacious than roasted.<br /><br />Finally: chestnuts roasted-in-the-street usually smell of charcoal braziers, at least in New York.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-2129974606736167082013-02-28T08:45:52.410-07:002013-02-28T08:45:52.410-07:00I do not know the poem but he could be referring t...I do not know the poem but he could be referring to roasting of chestnuts in the context of sex ( a bit of AG and a bit of Q), a streetwalker in fall/winter will smell the roast before trapped amine smells within the shuttered rooms of a bordello...just a guess. Guerilla Perfumerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16873887016373554622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-36644646613661986142013-02-27T13:20:32.736-07:002013-02-27T13:20:32.736-07:00+ Q Perfume Blog:
I like roasted chestnuts too, b...+ Q Perfume Blog:<br /><br />I like roasted chestnuts too, but I read Eliot’s line differently. [Can’t you just <i>agree</i> with her, for once?—Ed.] [I am. Sort of.]<br /><br />Given the rest of the poem, I thought “smells of chestnuts in the streets” referred to the, uh, shall we say, somewhat semen/spermy note of blossoming chestnut trees. [Do you have to sexualize <i>every</i> comment from +Q Perfume Blog?—Ed.] [No. She started it!]<br /><br />Don’t take my word for it. Here’s a description of the smell in <a href="http://blog.alientimes.org/2012/06/chestnut-trees-give-tsukuba-its-distinctive-summer-smell-re-revisited/" rel="nofollow">Japan</a>. <br /><br />And here’s a tastefully restrained account from the <a href="http://www.acf.org/field_guide.php" rel="nofollow">American Chestnut Foundation</a>:<br /><br />How to identify American chestnut trees<br /><br />Chestnut trees are most easily located while they are in full bloom, from early June, in the southern part of the range, to the weeks around the Fourth of July in the North. The great mass of conspicuous white catkins on larger trees is visible at great distances. The odor of the blooms is also quite distinctive, especially on still mornings and evenings.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-40610092468296253602013-02-27T04:20:58.272-07:002013-02-27T04:20:58.272-07:00I love the aroma of chestnuts. if you were in face...I love the aroma of chestnuts. if you were in facebook you would see the photos I posted of chestnuts being grilled...in my kitchen...+ Q Perfume Bloghttp://www.maiqueperfume.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com