The Human Nose Can Get Used to Anything: “Being There”
The human nose can get used to anything. And not only get used to it, but develop a strange affection for it, too. To paraphrase Kahlil Gibran, “Who can leave a place where he has felt sorrow… without regret”? Olfaction, that most emotional and nostalgic of senses, can leave impressions upon us which take on a certain preciousness in the fullness of time