Examine a book.

is it hypertext,
wrapped around ascii,
bypassing Xanadu stitching?

is it a stone in the great large language wall
as the grandson Kubla Khan of
de-commissioned and fragmented letters?

My father

a minor antique book collector
a printer by abandoned trade

he never stuck his nose,
not where it should
not where it shouldn’t

he did stick his nose
on the binding
among the pages of ink and parchment
and 21 years old weathered Glenfiddich
finger-tips and paper-cuts

I drink

green tea without tea
watering down experiences
with a pdf I dowloaded
and whether’t needs OCR

As a vision

in an intimate dream,
needing cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
something smells off,

we missed a beat
book, oh savage place!
oh savagely unbounded,

networked beast.



—animasuri’24



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triggers

Adam Jasper, & Jorge Otero-Pailos. (2016). Editors’ Introduction: Smell and Preservation. Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, 13(2), iii–viii. https://lnkd.in/gpbuRvVH

Bembibre, C., Strlič, M. (2017). Smell of heritage: a framework for the identification, analysis and archival of historic odours. Herit Sci 5, 2. https://lnkd.in/g_tRuqvN

Cooper, S. L. (2015). Vaporware: Software of the Imagination. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. https://lnkd.in/gpVNZTJB

Prentice, R.A., Langmore, J. H.(1994). Beware of Vaporware: Product Hype and the Securities Fraud Liability of High-tech Companies. IN: Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Volume 8, Number 1 Fall 1994. https://lnkd.in/gvhfwq_T

Purdy, Mark., Klymenko, Max., Purdy, Mia. (2021, May 03). Business Scents: The Rise of Digital Olfaction. Online: MITSloan Business Review. https://lnkd.in/gAY3vPWN

Uyeno, G. (2023, Sep). This Neural Net Maps Molecules to Aromas. Sights and sounds are easily digitized, but scents have eluded researchers until now. Online: IEEE Spectrum. https://lnkd.in/gq_A5f9e

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Bing Copilot. (2024 January). “…the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses depends on what kind of roses are described in the document, and how they are presented. If the document has pictures of roses, you might imagine their smell based on their appearance and color. If the document has text about roses, you might learn more about their chemical composition and how they affect your senses. Either way, the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses is likely to be pleasant and relaxing, just like the smell of a real rose. 🌹” ||. prompt trigger: “what is the smell of a pdf document on the topic of roses?”