"This garbage heaped up beside the stone blocks, the tumbrels of mire jolting through the streets at night, the awful scavengers’ carts, the fetid streams of subterranean slime that the pavement hides from you, do you know what all this is? It is the flowering meadow, it is the green grass, it is marjoram and thyme and sage, it is game, it is cattle, it is the satisfied bellowing of huge oxen in the evening, it is perfumed hay, it is golden wheat, it is bread on your table, it is joy, it is life." Victor Hugo 1867 "Les Miserables" Chapter: Nature
King Henry* of the Golden Stream read this, too, obviously. The scent of money. * "Raising Steam" Sir Terry Pratchett 2014
Listening to: edvard grieg piano concerto in a minor, op 16, 1868 Alice Sara Ott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBkKbpKHRas Best EVE soundtrack ever.