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I d/ld a game that teaches French, and played it all night till i fell asleep. I can’t believe how much I remembered from 6th grade French! (I later switched to Spanish) I hated my French teacher, i distinctly remember her tonguing sores on the insides of her cheeks, but as it turns out I learned quite a bit.
Why Old Books Smell Good
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.
—From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the guide
(via nedhepburn)
