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Unlike most of the objects that we sense around us, which we see or touch or hear, aromas are an invisible, intangible presence. To cultures that knew nothing of molecules and odor receptors, this ethereal, penetrating quality suggested a realm of invisible beings and powers.
Harold McGee • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Literature allows us to name the world by giving us new phrases, new characters, new words. Poets like Chaucer and Shakespeare coined hundreds of new words. So many of their phrases are still used in common speech. They named all sorts of things for us. And by using those names, we expand what we can understand about the world.
Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
But smell is often referred to as the invisible sense: we regularly experience it without consciously registering it.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Works of art, Hoel contends, are artificial dreams that serve the same function: "Just like dreams, fictions and art keep us from overfitting our perception, models, and understanding of the world."
Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture
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“All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”
The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
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The old man looks out at the smears of rain vibrating on the window glass. His smile fades. “But Arthur, there is hope.” The great author quietly says: