Comments on: It follows me wherever I go

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 00:33:27 +0000

No matter what bed I sleep in, at home or abroad, whenever I am just drifting off, I hear the beating of a heart – the heart of a dead man. What o what has happened to me? Is there no escape? Am I cursed?

By: vxo0

vxo0 — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:53:14 +0000

I love the smell of piss in the morning. It smells like an upgrade to the presidential suite.

By: Robert Schwartz

Robert Schwartz — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 04:42:08 +0000

Hostile, hostile, hostile.

By: nameless

nameless — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 02:33:47 +0000

Change your underwear at least once a week.

By: TR

TR — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 22:26:35 +0000

What is the role of ‘smell’ in paranoid delusions, is it any less than sight? How does this square with Freuds comment that man’s weak sense of smell could be the evolutionary root of Repression?

By: Hoodie Craw

Hoodie Craw — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:38:13 +0000

Curiously, he does not mention the hint of vinegar that one might otherwise expect to accompany olfactory cues of this type?

By: Johno

Johno — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:38:25 +0000

I’m a little embarrassed to know of a possible cause for the not-quite-stale-urine smell in hotel rooms (hey! It’s not what you think, okay?). Having financed my graduate education by renovating student apartments (which can be a little like cleaning the monkey house at the zoo), I know that vacuum cleaners can get moldy and emit a manky smell that resembles both mildew and urine, especially if the vacuum is stored in a humid room. This smell can linger for months in the room that the vacuum “cleaned.” This odor is bad enough in its own right, but if someone has actually peed at any point on the carpet being cleaned, the action of the vacuum can bring up the pee smell, which can combine with the mold smell like civet with jasmine, and result in a mold/urine order so pervasive that nothing short of total remodelling can fully get rid of it. Or you can use fire, but most hotels frown on such behavior.

By: JNelsonW

JNelsonW — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:34:32 +0000

I’ve noticed that to, but to be fair I don’t think that my own urine soaked clothing can account for ALL of the smell in question.

By: Chris Young

Chris Young — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:12:37 +0000

I thought it was just the kind of hotels I can afford.

By: Jean Genet

Jean Genet — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:05:38 +0000

Strange – everywhere I go the carpet smells of faeces.