Taste: molasses; grade B maple syrup Sight: doggie diapers; a spring in her step Sound: "Diabolical!","Barbaric!" Touch: velcro; "Each extension of a hand or paw is toward contact....When we touch we go from being observers to being included; things seen become things felt. In silence or in speech, reading and being read to are other forms of touch. The words of poets and writers stir us." — Ann Hamilton, " On Touch " Smell: woodsmoke; worst of the year candidate: the stench that comes from the nearby Burger King and permeates the air around the running track Extra: a moral quandary, a conflict of interest; a commonplace book - the v. commonplacing - reading, copying out and managing selections from one's books; "If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of lif...
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