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Scentless
I’ve got a piece up today at Comment Is Free, the Guardian’s blog, on the phenomenon of flowers losing their scent. Go check it out, along with the very perceptive literary criticism in the comments.
Posted by: Chris Clarke
Note: A database glitch in 2008 ate a bunch of archived comments. Don't be offended if yours isn't here, or confused if the conversation seems disjointed. Thanks!
Wonderful, Chris! Congratulations on good work getting noticed!
And yeah, I thought I was in an AOL or YouTube comment thread there for a second. But I liked the very British smackdowns of MindYourOwnBusiness and gunnison.
By: By Theriomorph on 2008 04 20
And I’d thought Piltdown Man a hoax.
By: By jmartin on 2008 04 20
Lovely piece, Chris. And just to let you know that at least some yellow freesias retain their scent: I’ve had a pot of them overwhelming my living room for the past two weeks. They hold their own against the orange and lemon trees outside. Walking through my front door is moving between scentospheres. (A word to go along with poetophobes, hee!)
By: By embee on 2008 04 20
I don’t think you’ve really lived until you’ve been called a wanker.
By: By nina on 2008 04 20
“pretentious wanker” is even better. But the sad bastard couldn’t even spell “pseuds”.
Congrats on getting into the Grauniad, Chris!
By: By Rob G on 2008 04 21
Well, to be precise, I’ve achieved a couple of the above-mentioned achievements before: my writing has appeared in the Grauniad before (see here) and I’ve been called a wanker before (see entire history of Usenet).
Don’t know that I’ve been called a pretentious wanker before, though, which practice I suspect involves an extended digitus minimus.
That above sentence is pretentious too, but there’s no way I was going to use the word “pinky” there. I know you all far too well.
By: By Chris Clarke on 2008 04 21
