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But he was brave. He fought the fear of knowing with a fear of not knowing…

128-129 what would this passage look like set to Music Jeremy wonders

The setting for these debaucheries was the innermost empire where he had buried the husks of every odor encountered since birth.
128-129 description of him reliving situations via the smell he kept in his mental logs and finally drowning them in a grand purifying deluge of distilled water. Like an emotional outburst of chords that finally get resolved this is Jeremy speaking.

And so passes Baldini. Seems everyone that comes into contact with nose guy dies or is ruined somehow.
Baldini: the great hypocrite like us all. Pacts and vows made bringing sound sleep but then opportunity strikes the next day or just not the will to go through with something and back to square one: woe is me.

In learning the system: he could simply sit himself down at the table and write the formula straight out. He had learned to extend the journey from his mental notion of a scent to the finished perfume by way of writing down the formula. The more he mastered the tricks and tools of the trade, the better he was able to express himself in the conventional language of perfume.
This is what you must do in music, JG.

As the perfume shop becomes famous almost overnight now, it’s reminiscent of Little Shop. The alien plant draws in the customers as the owner takes full credit. Baldini knows the craft enough to be enormously successful now that he has the abominable nose as apprentice. But at what cost?

P63
An absolute classic: full and harmonious. It was fresh, but not frantic. Floral without being unctuous . It possessed depth, splendid, abiding, voluptuous, rich Brown depth, and yet was not in the least excessive or bombastic.

man’s misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
-Pascal.

Loved the inner rant Baldini makes about the hectic excitement of man. He’s old himself and sort of done… but he woes in an interesting way what man has need of now as compared to some other age. (When, I wonder?). Suddenly men have need to prove or disprove everything and on and on. P58-62.

Along comes the spider: the abominable nose.