“Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.” MatterSoundWaterCommonAttentionAirDirectSightCommon SenseContactChemicalsSight And Sound Book:Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell Source: Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell
“We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.” WorldLiteratureAttentionFictionDiseaseSightPoeticCleanersSlaughterhousesDisease And Death Book:Writings, 1902-1910 Source: Writings, 1902-1910