You probably pay more attention to a newspaper with your eye’s than withyour nose. But lift the paper to your nostrils ( 鼻孔) and inhale. The smell ofnewsprint might carry you back to your childhood, when your parents perused( 精读) the paper on Sunday mornings. Or maybe some other smell takes youback-the scent of your mother’s perfume, the pungency ( 刺激性) of a driftwoodcampfire. Specific odours can spark a flood of reminiscences.Psychologists call it the “ Proustian phenomenon” ( 涌式现象), after Frenchnovelist Marcel Proust. Near the beginning of the masterpiece In Search ofLost Time, Proust’s narrator dunks ( 蘸) a madeleine cookie into a cup of tea -and the scent and taste unleash ( 释放) a torrent ( 连续不断的) of childhoodmemories for 3000 pages.
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