Perfume -- Süskind
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[22-23]{fästing, vegetativ, Grenouille}

[26]{minne, trä}Days later he was still completely fuddled by the intense olfactory experience, and whenever the memory of it rose up too powerfully within him he would mutter imploringly, over and over, "Wood, wood."

[26]{språk, luktsinne, moralisk förmåga} And so he learned to speak. With words designating nonsmelling objects, with abstract ideas and the like, especially those of an ethical or moral nature, he had the greatest difficulty. He could not retain them, confused them with one another, and even as an adult used them unwillingly and often incorrectly: justice, conscience, God, joy, responsibility, humility, gratitude, etc. -- what these were meant to express remained a mystery to him. [G luktar, men istället för att se. Doft och syn omkastade. saknar moralisk förmåga]

[26]{dofter, språk}On the other hand, everyday language would soon prove inadequate for designating all the olfactory notions that he had accumulated within himself.

[26]{luktsinne, skillnad, trä}Soon he was no longer smelling mere wood, but kinds of wood: maple-wood, oak-wood,  pine-wood,  elm-wood,  pear-wood,  old,  young, rotting, mouldering, mossy wood, down to single logs, chips and splinters - and could clearly differentiate them as objects in a way that other people could not have done by eight. It was the same with other things. [doftsinnet löser upp världen i skillnad, gör att språkets kategorier är otillräckliga för G:s livsvvärld. Är det därför han tar avstånd från määniskornas värld? Språket kan inte förena.]

[26-27]{identitet, skillnad}For instance, the white drink that Madame Gaillard served her wards each day, why should it be designated uniformly as milk ... Or why should smoke possess only the name 'smoke', when from minute to minute, second to second, the amalgam of hundreds of odours mixed irridescently into every new and changing unities as the smoke rose from the fire ... earth, landscape, air -- each filled att every step and every breath with yet another odour and thus animated with another identity ... [idenititet är doft och dofterna är i ständig rörelse]  

[27]{luktsinne, språk, språkets fattigdom}All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all; and he grew accustomed to using such words only when his contact with others made it absolutely necessary. [luktsinnet sammanfaller inte med ett mänskligt språk. Det har ingen 'sense' (vad är detta på tyska?). G står utanför samhället.]

[35]{doft, trådar, förnimmelser, atomer}...he did not merely smell the mixture of odours in the aggregate, but he dissected it analytically into its smallest parts and pieces. His discerning nose unravelled the knot of vapour and stench into single strands of unitary osours that could not be unthreaded further.

[]{} Grenouille saw the whole market smelling, if it can be put that way. And he smelled it more precisely than many people could see it, for his perception was perception after the fact and thus of a higher order: an essence, a spirit of what had been, somthing undisturbed by the everyday accidents of the moment, like noise, glare of the nauseating press of living human beings.

[43]{}Grenouille did not trust his eyes and had to call on his eyes for assistance if he was to believe what he smelled[måste se för at förstå lukten. Luktsinne blir seende?]

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[93]{arbetsdelning, ökad produktivitet, industrialisering, modernitet}[]
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[157]{identitet, grenouille}he had been accustomed to people passing him and taking no notice of him whatever ... because they were quite unaware of his existence. There was no space surrounding him, no waves broke from him into the atmosphere, as with other people; he had no shadow, so to speak, to cast across another's face[]
[161-162]{gud, grenouille, andedräkt, lukt, liv}[doft och andedräkt hänger ihop=luktsinnet det mest grundläggande, går ej att undfly. 162:jämför sig själv med gud]
[]{}[föreställer sig flickans doft. Inser att den är efemär, att den måste försvinna (kan inte ta doften med sig i sömnen)] It's not the same as it is in your memory. The real thing gets used upp in this world. It's transient. And by the time it gets used up the source I took it from will no longer exist
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