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A Tour of Potentially Smelly Bookshops
by Amanda Arnold | August 25, 2010
What’s nice about bookstores is that you get to stand in a room where people’s imaginations are filed. So it’s kind of like standing in a room with infinity.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but infinity has a distinct odor: “a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness,” in the words of a scientific report on the aroma of old books.
Link between Creativity and Mental Illness Discovered (Again)
by Josh Clark | November 17, 2009
Around 7:30 on the morning of Sunday, July 2, 1961, Earnest Hemingway went downstairs to the foyer of his home in Ketchum, Idaho, still clad in pajamas and robe, removed a 12-gauge shotgun from a rack near the front door, and shot himself in the head with it.
Hemingway was 61 when he shot himself and he’d just been released after a two-month stint at the Mayo Clinic, where he’d been treated for severe depression. He followed in the footsteps of his father, who had shot himself at age 57.
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