Smell
Hi.
What does smell mean in:
Prisoner of a morsel of space, you will struggle desperately against occult elements: the absence of matter, the
smell of balance, vertigo from all sides, and the dark desire to return to the ground, even to fall.
?(it is about high-wire walking)
Thanks in advance
Top answer
He's French, I believe, so you have to cut him some slack. He is attempting the rhetorical device of synesthesia, using words that normally describe one sense to describe another sense or an unrelated thing, the sound of red, the taste of failure. You are supposed to instantly gather what you can from the impression the incongruous combination creates and read on.
- He's French, I believe, so you have to cut him some slack.
- He is attempting the rhetorical device of synesthesia, using words that normally describe one sense to describe another sense or an unrelated thing, the sound of red, the taste of failure.
- You are supposed to instantly gather what you can from the impression the incongruous combination creates and read on.
- In this case, I suspect he actually knows what balance smells like up on a circus tightrope—camphor, greasepaint, sour sweat, mildewed canvas, elephant dung, sawdust, popcorn, etc.
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He's French, I believe, so you have to cut him some slack. He is attempting the rhetorical device of synesthesia, using words that normally describe one sense to describe another sense or an unrelated thing, the sound of red, the taste of failure. You are supposed to instantly gather what you can from the impression the incongruous combination creates and read on. In this case, I suspect he ac
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