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Over this base hangs the heavy smell of fruits and vegetables squeezed into baskets, crated on huge wagons in the dark passageway of the boats; and over that, again, the hot smell of steam.
The chapter — he thinks it's Chapter Six — describes a home birth in gory detail: a "smear of fluid and hair"; "ripple of liquid and skin; "hot smell between sex and butchery"; the womb "condensing like a lump of coal in Superman's fist to a hard, bright, healthy diamond".
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As G. K. Chesterton put it: "It is well to be able to realize that contact with the Dickens world is almost like a physical contact; it is like stepping suddenly into the hot smells of a greenhouse, or into the bleak smell of the sea.
"There is definitely a hot day smell".
"When it gets hot, the smell is horrendous," Mr. Gonzalez said.
My blush is so hot I smell smoke.
"Dog poop and hot dogs smell the same," he said with a sigh.
A radio sat on a sturdy table, and had a hot, distinctive smell when it "warmed up" to start playing.
"It's penny pinching and it's going to blow up because when it gets hot that smell is going to magnify 10-fold," said the source.
Roucel burns that hot, ripe smell in the engine block up front, fueling Ravageur with a little synthetic civet, a lot of synthetic castoreum (un castor is a beaver) and a synthetic musk base.
The problem is that this strength, clarity, persistence and depth are applied to the hot, ripe smell of a French trucker's Jockey shorts after a muggy day on the A51.
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