'They can smell life, the mountains, the earth,' Lennart explains.
The air smelled clear, life felt unhurried.
His language is chastely lyrical, with a discreet musicality: "It was a fine autumn day, really, and the air through the open windows smelled like life".
The heat, smells, street life and colours of Mandalay are intoxicating.
These are the sights and smells of life.
And Marty doesn't spend every day of his life, smelling like fish.
"I have a foul-smelling life," he said.
As one fan puts it in the film, listening to Springsteen's lyrics "is like looking through someone's family photo album and looking at their life and smelling their coffee … and feeling their sadness … and they're triumphing".
To keep him alive she started piling on him various things from life, things smelling of a home — coats, sweaters, a rain of flowers, a hat, socks, sneakers — and with amazing strength had him on his feet and was maneuvering him into a maze of trees, a wonderland of trees, trees hung with ice.
When I did Ladder 49, I didn't want to let go of my turnout gear, and I didn't believe that I could go through life without smelling smoke.
"They are the best-smelling things I have ever smelled in my life," he said.
