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Perfumes in Dialogue with One Another (Sniffapalooza Magazine)
3 pages
Publié par
Elena Vosnaki
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Perfumes in Dialogue with One Another
By Elena Vosnaki
If perfumes have voices ~some huskily seductive, some crystal-shattering, and others
yet melodiously insistent~ it is not enough to question what they are saying or even how,
but...
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Perfumes in Dialogue with One Another
By Elena Vosnaki
If perfumes have voices ~some huskily seductive, some crystal-shattering, and others
yet melodiously insistent~ it is not enough to question what they are saying or even how,
but it is equally important to ask ourselves to whom and when they are formulating their
utterances.
Do they speak to those we come in contact with (undoubtedly so!), do they
tell tales to the wearer or do they sometimes also talk to one another? If we truly wear
perfumes first and foremost for ourselves, just how significant is this latter internal dialogue?
In “Opera aperta”, Umberto Eco argued that literary texts are fields of meaning, rather than
strings of meaning.
He proposed therefore that texts are open and internally dynamic, thus
deeply engaging from a psychological point of view.
Literature works repressing potential
understanding to a single, unequivocal line are the least rewarding, according to this view,
while those that are mo
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