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INDEX
Abduction from the
Seraglio, 214
About Faces, 100
abstract thinking, 230
ACHOO syndrome, 32
acoustical levilation, 190
Addison's disease, 149, 152
adolescence rites, 102-3
Aeolus, 237
African honey guide, 266
air, 236-37
albinos, 10, 252n
Alexander the Great, 60
Allen, J, W, T., 111
alligators, 92, 98, 197, 264-65, 303
Alper, Svetlana, 94-95
Alzheimer's disease, 43, 164
Amadeus, 212
"Amazing Grace," 206
ambergris, 12, 62
Amoore, J, E., 14
analgesics, 105
"And God Created Great Whales,"
199
anesthetics, 104-5
Angier, Bradford, 166
animals:
camouflage and display in, 260-63
fragrant glandular secretions of, 12
hearing in, 194-95, 196-97, 224,
230
as masters of touch, 98-99
pheromones of, 26-28, 162
smell in, 10-11, 30-31
sneezing in, 31
sounds of, 193-98, 199-202
tortured to improve 1aIte, 147
vision in, 254, 263-66
warm vs. cold-blooded, 90-91, 264
weather changes perceived by, 44
anosmia, 40-44
anthocyanin, 258
Antony, Mark, 36, 59
aphrodisiacs:
foods as, 130-31, 152, 160, 161,
162
smells as, 12-13, 14
apocrine glands, 22-23
Apollo missions, 283
architecture:
ancient, aromatic woods in, 59-60
music and, 220-21
A Rebours, 16
Aristotle, 271
Armelagos, George, 148, 149
aromatherapy, 57, 58-59
Art of Seeing, The, 295
arts:
beauty and, 277-78
self-mutilation or pain in, 108
synesthetes in, 290-92
vision problems and, 267-70
see also literature
Ashbery, John, 297
Atharvaveda, 135
Auden, W, H., 294
auroras, 247
Aztecs, 132-33, 137, 153, 157,
159-60, 246
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 211, 217
Bacon, Sir Francis, 249
Badura-Skoda, Paul, 207
baldness, 8,
Balzac, Honore de, 152, 161
Bantu, 127
barometric pressure, 44, 45
Barre, J, M., 29
Barry, Janne du, 8
basking, 91-92
baths, 57, 59, 296
bats, 21-22, 27, 266, 276
echolocation in, 189, 196-97
Baudelaire, Charles, 15, 291, 292
Beatrice et Benedict, 221
beauty, 270-79
advantages of, 271-73
art and, 277-78
cultural ideals and, 273-74
dilated pupils and, 270-71
face and, 274-75
fatness or thinness and, 273-74
of gems, 278-79
in nature, 276-77
nonphysical factors in, 275-76
novelty or surprise in, 277
pain endured for sake of, 103
Beauty and the Beast, 34, 171-72
Bedichek, Roy, 23, 32
bees, 93, 265, 266
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 208-9, 215
Beleme, 166-67
Berger, John, 277
Berlioz, Hector, 221
Bible, 111, 231, 295, 301
Big Sur, sunset at, 240, 243-44
binging, 150
bioluminescence, 250-51
birds, 27 30, 261, 265, 266, 276-77,
flight habits of, 242
singing of, 193-94
Birnberg, Judith R., 41-43
birth, 6
Blake, William, 206, 308
blindness, 41, 117, 181, 191-92, 249
Bodanis, David, 142-43
body:
constancy of, over time, xvi
hearing internal workings of,
178-80, 191
listening to music with, 212-13
pushing beyond limits, 101
as transducer, 307-8
body odor, 21-24, 38
in greetings, 23
individual differences in, 23
race and, 22
removing or disguising of, 24
body temperature, 89-94
Bonner, John Tyler, 197
Boran, 266
Borodin, Alexandr, 211
Bracken Cave, 196
Bradstreet, Anne, 236
Braille, 118
brain, 10, 31, 150, 155, 191, 293,
303, 304, 307-8
computer compared to, 165
hearing and, 177, 178, 180, 181
music and, 203, 209, 217
origins of, 20
pain and, 104, 105
smell and, 11, 13-14
speech and, 185
synesthesia and, 290
taste and, 138
touch and, 76-77, 80, 81, 83, 89,
112
vision and, 233
breathing, 6-7, 32, 129, 236
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, 125, 127,
140, 153, 161-62, 164
Broca's area, 185
Bronzaft, Arlene, 187
Buddhism, 136
Burke, Carol, 176n
burns, 69-70, 104
Burton, Sir Richard, 103
Bushmen, 199, 245, 278n
Busoni, Ferruccio, 297
Bus Stop, 48
butterflies, 27, 31, 91, 139, 260,
262-63, 265, 302
monarch, 18-19, 93-94, 241-42
caffeine, 156, 168
Cage, John, 191
Caligula, 145
camouflage, 32-33, 260-63
Campbell, Joseph, 137
camphoraceous odors, 11, 14
cannibalism, 136-38
Capote, Truman, 7, 295
carbohydrates, 150-51, 152, 156
Carlyle, Thomas, 216
Carr, Donald, 83-84
Carroll, Lewis, 295
Caruso, Enrico, 212-13
castoreum, 12
Cather, Willa, 295
Catholicism, 67, 127, 138
cats, 11, 26, 31, 88, 98
vision in, 263-64
Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 146
cave paintings, 171, 172
cedarwood, 59-60
Cervantes, Miguel, 287
Cezanne, Paul, 267-68, 270
Chanel No, 5, 11-12, 51
Charles V, King of Spain, 153
Charoen, Phra, 222
Charterhouse of Parma, The, 295
Chatwin, Bruce, 216
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 15
Chemistry of Love, The, 155
chewing, 142
child abuse, 73
childbearing, 102, 103, 106, 120, 150
child development, touch in, 71-80
Children of a Lesser God, 192
China, 163, 210, 246
ancient, 117, 169, 202-3, 237, 239,
255
aromatic architecture in, 60
Chinese Exercise Balls, 96-97
chlorophyll, 257, 261
chocolate, 131, 153-57, 159, 160
chemistry of, 154-55
craving for, 151, 153, 154-56
history of, 153
chords, 219-20
Christianity, 61,113, 212
denial of senses in, 145-46
Churchill, Lady Randolph, 57, 99
circumcision rites, 102-3
civet, 12, 14
civilization, 129-30, 171
Clampitt, Amy, 298
Clare, John, 295
Clarke, Arthur C., 185
Cleopatra, 36, 59, 272-73
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 211
clouds, 238, 239
Coca-Cola, 168
cocaine, 104, l05, 168
Cocteau, Jean, 34, 171-72
coffee, 134-35, 139, 141, 151, 152
cold-blooded animals, 91, 264
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 15, 296
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle, 15, 161,
236, 294
color, 219, 220, 252-60, 270, 276
in camouflage or display, 260-63
emotions triggered by, 254-56
of leaves in fall, 257-59
sounds associated with, 290-91
of sunset, 255-56
color-blindness, 253, 265
Columbus, Christopher, 56, 133
comets, 247
communion, 127, 138
computers, 165, 185, 301
Congreve, William, 216-17
Consuming Passions (Farb and
Armelagos), 148, 149
Consuming Passions (Pullar), 145
Cook, James, 99
Cooke, Deryck, 208, 209, 214
Cook's Oracle, The, 147
corn, 128
Cortes, Hernan, 153, 159-60
countershading, 261
couvade, 103
Cowley, Abraham, 32, 273
Cowley, Malcolm, 294
cows, 133, 135-36, 138
Crane, Hart, 294
cravings, 105-6, 148-52
for chocolate, 151, 153, 154-56
heredity and, 152
mood and, 150-51
of pregnant women, 105-6, 149-50
Crete, 60
crickets, 195
croissants, 134
Crum, George, 143
crusaders, 37, 61, 146
cryogenics, 90
cummings, e, e., 276, 277, 306
Cytowic, Richard, 290
dance, 71, 210-11
Darwin, Charles, 111
Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 185
deafness, 41, 94n, 175, 191-93
blindness vs., 191-92
literature of, 192-93
music and, 212-13, 215
death, 6, 170-71, 179, 256, 259
deer, 32-33, 34, 194, 263, 265
Degas, Edgar, 269-70
depth perception, 264
diabetes, 152
dialects, 184, 186, 193-94
diamonds, 278-79
Dickens, Charles, 17-18, 20
Dionne quints, 79n
direction, determining of, 246-47
disease, smell as signal of, 24, 38, 54
Disney, Walt, 90
display, 261, 263
dissonant music, 188, 203
divination, 138
doctors, touching by, 119-20
Dodge, Charles, 223
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 15
dreams, 234, 235, 309
Druids, 138
Dryden, John, 214
"Dry Salvages, The," 208
Dufy, Raoul, 269
Dumas, Alexandre, pere, 295
Durrell, Gerald, 24
eardrums, 177
ears, 10, 177-78, 181
of animals, 194-95
in balance and equilibrium, 191
damaged by loud noises, 187, 188
range of sound heard by, 188-89
Earth:
electrical phenomena of, translated
into music, 222-25
quivering of, 308-9
viewed from above, 283-85
earthquakes, 44, 99, 224
echolocation, 189, 196-97
Edwards, Peter, 204
Edward the Confessor, 62
Egypt, ancient, 99, 105n, 113, 120,
127, 169, 255, 274
scents in, 56-57, 58, 59, 60
Eiseley, Loren, 232,
electromagnetic sense, 302,
elephants, 30, 62, 194, 197, 303
Eliot, T, S., 208, 296-97
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 62
Elkin, Stanley, 82
Ellington, Duke, 213
emotions, 7, 70, 74, 108, 181, 182,
253
chocolate and, 154-55
color and, 254-56
music and, 205-9, 213-15, 217
visual images and, 281-82
Emre, Yunus, 36
endorphins, 104-5, 150, 217, 219
Ephesus, temple of Diana at, 60
Epictetus, 191
Epicurus, 144
Esau, l11
estrogen, 43
ethereal odors, 11, 14
eucalyptus, 18-20, 133, 241
evolution, 30, 92, 188, 237, 303-4, 305
from hunter-gatherers to
civilization, 129-30
ocean origins and, 20-21
smell and, 20, 30, 38, 44, 55, 63
touch and, 78-79
vision and, 231
of warm-blooded animals, 90-91
Exploratorium, 97-98, 224
eyes, 10, 230, 249, 264
color of, 232-33
dense information gathered by,
229-30
extended with accessories, 230-31
workings of, 232, 233, 252
face, beauty of, 274-75
fall, color of leaves in, 257-59
Farb, Pete, 148, 149
farts, 24-25
fatness, 273-74
Faulkner, William, 292
Fellman, Sandi, 100
Ferenczi, Sandor, 21
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory, 211
fertility rites and symbols, 131-32
fetuses, 78, 79, 189
mother's heartbeat heard by,
178-79
Field, Tiffany, 74
Fielding, Henry, 130
fingerprints, 67, 117
fingertips, sensitivity of, 68, 118
fire, 229
firefleas, 251
fish, 31, 140, 194, 198, 232
camouflage in, 261, 262
Fisher, M. F. K., 157
Flaubert, Gustave, 15
floral odors 9-10, 11, 12, 13, 14
food:
aphrodisiacs, 130-31, 152, 160,
161, 162
cannibalism and, 136-38
cravings for, 105-6, 148-52, 153,
154-56
finding of, 129
first experiences with, 129
and hunter's feelings toward prey,
172
macabre, 146-47
medicinal quality of, 163-65
mood and, 150-51
omnivorousness and, 132-35,
136-37
in Roman empire, 140, 143-45,
146
sacred, 135-36
sex and, 130-32, 146
social component of, 127-30
sounds associated with, 142-43, 176
taboos against, 135-38, 150
as thrill-seeking, xv-xvi, 167-71
food chain, 171
food gods, 128
Forgotten Senses, The, 83-84
Forshan, Vincent, 275
Foul and the Fragrant, The, 25
Fragrance, 11
Franklin, Benjamin, 294, 296
Freud, Sigmund, 21
frostbite, 91
fugu, xv-xvi, 169-70, 171
fumigation, 25
Garden of Eden, 106,
131, 259
Gass, William, 297-98
gems, 278-79
Genet, Jean, 277
George V, King of England, 99
Gestalt psychology, 290
Giacometti, Alberto, 268
Gibbon, Edward, 145
Gibson, Edward, 108
Gilbert, Avery, 28
Gilgamesh, 85
ginger, 163
Giorgio, 46
gladiators, 60-61, 145
gods, 56, 128, 136, 236, 237, 239,
255
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 302
Gombrowicz, Witold, 8
Goodall, Jane, 26
gooseflesh, 92-93
Gothic cathedrals, 220, 221
Grant, Brian, 192
gravity, sense of, 303
Great Britain, culinary habits in,
146-47, 148-49
Great Pianists Speak for Themselves,
207
Greece, ancient, 10, 60, 113, 120,
140, 162, 237, 246, 253, 255
music in, 211-12
Green, Howard, 69
greetings, 118
smell in, 23, 110-11
Gregorian chant, 212, 219, 220, 221
Grojsman, Sophia, 47-54
Guanches, 215
gynecologists, 120
hair, 10, 84-88, 91
body odor and, 22
in ears, 177, 178, 187
functions of, 87
growth, death, and renewal of, 86
pressure sensitivity and, 68, 87-88
symbolic gestures with, 84-86
touching of, 121, 122,
Hair, 85
hairstyles, 60, 85-86, 120, 273, 274
hallucinations, auditory, 180
hallucinogens, 191
hands, 115-19
laying on of, 119
palm-reading and, 115-16
sense of lost touch in, 117-18
touching oneself with, 118
handshakes and handclasps, 118
harmony, 220
Harris, Marvin, 135-36
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, 56
healers, 119
hearing, 30, 41, 77, 173-225, 229
in animals, 194-95, 196-97, 224-
230
auditory hallucinations and, 180
auditory niches and, 195-96
extended by technology, 189-90
internal workings of body and,
178-80, 191
limits of, 188-89
mechanics of, 177-78, 181, 188-89
selective, 180, 181
touch as substitute for, 94n
see also deafness; ears; music;
sounds
hearing aids, 189
heart, 179
heart attacks, 103-4, 121
heartbeat, 178-80, 189-90
height, 273
Helen of Troy, 272-73
Hellerstein, David, 67-68
Hemingway, Ernest, 295
Hendrickson, Robert, 295
Henkin, Robert, 43
Henry I, King of England, 152
Henry IV, Part II, 165
heredity, 141, 152, 210, 292
heroin, 105
Herrick, Robert, 15
Hesiod, 237
Hindus, 135-36
Hippocrates, 105n
Hitler, Adolf, 188
Homer, 60, 237, 253
homophony, 219
Hopi, 128
horror films, 91, 170-71, 265
Hostia, xvi
hot-coal-walking, 101
"Hound of the Baskervilles, The," 5
houris, 63
Housman, A, E., 295-96
Hovhaness, Alan, 199
How Animals See, 262
How To Stay Alive in the Woods,
166
Huang Ti, 203
Hugo, Victor, 294
hunter-gatherers, 129-30, 133
Huxley, Aldous, 295
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 16, 161, 268,
292
hymns, 205-6
hyperactivity, 152
hypothermic surgery, 90
iambs, 179-80
Ice Man, 90
immune system, 38, 67
incense, 56, 59, 60, 62
In Cold Blood, 7
India, 62, 255
cows sacred in, 135-36
infants, 179, 210
sensory impressions of, 289
taste and, 140, 141
touch essential to, 71-80
see also mothering
infrared vision, 265
infrasonics, 197, 303
initiation rites, 102-3
inner ear, 177, 178, 189, 191
Innocent Killers, The, 26
insects, 276
camouflage in, 261, 262
compound eyes of, 265
ears of, 194-95
heat detection in, 91
smell in, 27, 30
International Flavors and Fragrances
Inc, (IFF), 12, 46-54
Intersonics, Inc., 190
ionone, 9
Isaac, 111
Islamic cultures, 36
Itza, 153
Jacob, 111
Janism, 136
Japan, 62, 100
puffer fish (fugu) in, xv-xvi,
169-70, 171
Japanese Tattoo, The, 100
Jefferson, Thomas, 160
Jerome, Saint, 145
"Jerusalem," 206
Jesus Christ, 62, 67, 70, 113, 116, 138
Jews, 85, 127, 135
Jezebel, Queen of Israel, 274
Johnson, Samuel, 292, 294
Josephine, Empress of France, 9, 10,
62
Journey into Russia, 239
Joy (perfume), 34
Joyce, James, 15, 292
Jupiter, 223, 282
kachina dolls, 128
Kafka, Franz, 95, 108
Kant, Emmanuel, 116
Katz, Bernhard, 83
Keats, John, 175
Keller, Helen, xviii, 3, 23, 37, 44, 45,
191-92, 212-13
Kennedy, John F, 35
Kipling, Rudyard, 11, 15, 295
Kiss, The, 113-14
kissing, 108-14
cultural differences in, 111-12
nonromantic, 112-13
origins of, 110-11
smell in, 23
Kitchiner, William, 147
Klein, Donald, 154
Klein, Manfried, 217
Koran, 62-63
Krause's end bulbs, 132
Kung!, 78
Lamb, Charles, 147
Land, Edwin, 252
Landau, Terry, 100
language, 14, 55, 70, 129, 182-86
200
dialects and, 184, 186
French vs. Saxon, 183
music as, 207, 208, 209-16
names of colors in, 253-4
onomatopoeia in, 183-84
for smells, 6, 7-9, 10
visual imagery in, 230-31
see also speech
larynx, 184-85
lateral inhibition, 105
lavender, 9, 34, 57, 58
Lawrence, D. H., 71, 294
Lawrence, T. E., 101, 108
Lawrence of Arabia, 101
Leakey, Louis, S. B., 21
learning, stimulated by smells, 11
leaves, 257-59, 261
Leonardo da Vinci, 198, 236
Leonids, 247
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 135
levitation, acoustical, 190
Liebowitz, Michael, 154, 155
life spans, underfeeding and, 152n
light, 32, 231, 232, 233, 249-52
bioluminescence or
triboluminescence and, 250-52
color and, 252
effects of, 249-50
night vision and, 263-64
path of, 244-45
phototropism and, 302-3
lightning, 178, 238
limbic system, 11, 290
Lincoln, Abraham, 35
Lingis, Alphonso, 298
lips, 110, 111, 112, 114, 132
literature:
of deafness, 192-93
smell in, 15-18
writers' habits and, 292-99
liver, 152
Livingstone, David, 138
lock-and-key metaphors, 14
loud noises, 186-88
Louis XIV, King of France, 61
Louis XV, King of France, 61
love, xvi, xviii, 154, 179
love apples, 24
lovers, 122, 230, 306-7
see also sex
Lowell, Amy, 294
Lucretius, 14
Lucy, xvi-xvii
lupus, 70-7l
McClintock Effect,
29
McLuhan, Marshall, 158
magi, gifts of, 62
Mahler, Gustav, 214-15
makeup, 57, 60, 61, 114, 146, 273,
274-75
"Making of a Poem, The," 296
Man Facing Southeast, 221-22
Mansfield, Katherine, 293
Maori, 99-100, 111, 253
Man, 224, 247
Martial, 274
Martin, Russell, 106-7
Mary Magdalen, 70, 113
Masai, xvi, 24, 132
Maslow, Abram, 14
massage, 120-21
of premature babies, 71-74, 77, 79
mathematics, 14, 220
music and, 211-12
Matters Gray and White, 106-7
Maupassant, Guy de, 192
Maurer, Daphne and Charles, 289
Mauriac, Francois, 15
Mayans, 202,
medicinal uses of food, 163-65
meditation, 101, 205
Medoff, Mark, 192
Meissner, Georg, 139
Meissner corpuscles, 83
memories, 43, 95,253
food and, 129
smell and, 5, 7, 11, 18-20, 58-59
visual images and, 233-35, 281-82
Mendelssohn, Felix, 213
menstruation, 12, 29, 54n, 103, 156
Merck Manual, The, 24-25
Mercury, 248
Merkel's disks, 84
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 267, 270
Mesopotamia, 56, 202,
metaphors, 7, 8, 14,70
Middle Ages, 61, 69, 113, 120, 146, 219
Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 276
military cadence calls, 176
Milky Way, 245
Miller, Lorraine, 117
"Miller's Tale, The," 15
Milosz, Czeslaw, 15
Milton, John, 15, 173
Mohammed, 36
molecular shape, smell and, 14
monarch butterflies, 18-19, 93-94,
241-42
Monell Chemical Senses Center,
37-38, 43, 151
Monet, Claude, 269, 270
monkeys, 30, 76-77, 120
Monroe, Marilyn, 12, 48
Montezuma, 153, 157, 159-60
Monty Python's Flying Circus, 167
monuments, 282
mood, 141
body odor and, 23
food and, 150-51
light's influence on, 249-50
Moodus noises, 224
moon, 245-46, 249, 276
Morin, James, 251
Morris, Desmond, 112, 120
Morris, Edwin T., 11
mosques, 60
mothering, 112, 129, 136, 175
cuteness of babies and, 272
recognizing offspring in, 27-28, 29
touch in, 74-78, 79
mouth, 143
mouth-feeding, 112, 129
movies:
horror films, 91, 170-71, 265
illusion of motion in, 265-66
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 207, 212, 214
MS (multiple sclerosis), 82
MSG (monosodium glutamate), 140
Much Depends on Dinner, 128
Munch, Edvard, 277
Murasaki Shikibu, Lady, `8
Murmur of the Heart, 179
muscular sense, 303
music, 71, 175-76, 189, 202-25
ability for, 209
church architecture and, 220-21
in composer's imagination, 215
dance, 210-11
electrical phenomena of Earth
translated into, 222-25
emotion and, 205-9, 213-15, 217
as Esperanto of universe, 211
generational or cultural preferences
in, 210, 213
human biology and, 203, 216-19
as language, 207, 208, 209-16
listened to with body, 212-13
loud rock, 186-87
mathematics and, 211-12
Oriental, 203
origins of, 202-3, 209
as speech, 215-16
structures in, 221
synesthesia and, 290-91
as temporal art, 220
understood without learning, 205,
210
western, 213, 219-21
whale songs, 199-202
writers' habits and, 297
musical epilepsy, 180
musical instruments, 202-4
music
therapy, 217-18
musk, 11, 12, 14, 60, 61, 131
Musset, Allred de, 295
Muzak, 180
myopia, 269-70
Nabokov, Vladimir, 262-63, 291-92
Nagano, Chris, 93
Nanmu Han, 60
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 9,
62, 162
National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH), 151, 155
nature, beauty in, 276-77
Nemerov, Howard, 298
Neptune, 282
Nero, 36
neurons, 10, 14, 81, 138, 233
New Literary History, 212
niches, auditory, 195-96
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 99
night, 245-48
night vision, 263-64
Niklas, Karl, 243
1984, 157
"96," 306
noli mi tangere, 70-71
Norse, 240, 245
North Star, 244, 246
nose, 10-11, 30-32
human, poor design of, 31-32
nose-rubbing, 23, 110, 111
novelty, quest for, 235, 277, 304-5
Nyrop, Christopher, 110
oceans, human origins in,
20-21, 231
Odysseus, 237
Ohno, Susumu, 223
"O Holy Night," 206
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 270
Olds, James, 218
Olduvai Gorge, xvi
olfactory regions, 10-11, 13, 20, 31
Oller, Kimbough, 94n
omnivores, 132-35, 136-37
"On Being Ill," 104
onomatopoeia, 183-84
On the Nature of Things, 14
opiates, 104-5
opium, 296
Opium (perfume), 50, 51
optical illusions, 230n
Orwell, George, 157
outer ear, 177, 181
Ovid, 146
Pacinian corpuscles, 82, 83-84,
98
pain, 80, 81, 82, 101-8, 303
easing of, 104-6
endured for sake of beauty, 103
illusions of, 103-4
of others, taking pleasure in, 144-45
purpose of, 106-8
rites of, 102-3
subjectivity in experience of, 101
surmounting of, 101-2
typos of, 104
painters, vision problems of, 267-70
palm reading, 115-16
pattern theory of pain, 107
Pavlov, Ivan, 108
Payne, Roger, 199
penguins, 8, 98, 261, 263
pepperminty odors, 11, 14
Perfume, 16-17
perfumes, 5, 8, 9, 14, 16, 34, 36
biological effects of, 12-13
environmental fragrances, 22, 40
etymology of, 56
extravagant promises of, 25-26
for functional products, 39, 49,
51-52
history of, 56-57, 59-63
human pheromones and, 28
human travels in quest of, 55-56
making of, 11-12, 45-54
names of, 39-40, 50-51
nationality and, 39
for objects, 38-39
weather and, 44-45
peripheral vision, 229, 264
perspiration, 92,
Peter Pan, 29
pet ownership, 121
phantom-limb pain, 104
phenylethylamine (PEA), 154-55
Pheromone (perfume), 28
pheromones, 12, 26-30, 37, 162
Phoenicians, 274
photographs, 281-82
phototropism, 302-3
Picasso, Pablo, 51, 293
pineal gland, 250
pine cones, 243
pitch, 178
Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests, The, 8, 297
planets, 247-48, 282-83
see also Earth
plants, 52, 232, 242-43
pleasure, 145, 218-19
Pluto, 282
PMS (premenstrual syndrome), 156
Poe, Edgar Allan, 295
poetry, 18, 179-80, 295-96
poison, 139, 141,146
pollen, 143
polyphony, 219-20, 221
Pope, Alexander, 147, 152
potato chips, 142-43
Pound, Ezra, 71
power lunch, 151
Power of Myth, The, 137
Predator, 91
predators, 22, 23, 27, 196, 261, 262
263
eyes of, 229, 264
pregnancy, 43, 178-79, 189
food cravings in, 105-6, 149-50
premature babies, 75, 78
massaging of, 71-74, 77, 79
Preti, George, 28-29
prey, 23, 27, 229, 264
primitive peoples:
cannibalism among, 137
creation as viewed by, 131-32
food and, 135
music in communication of, 215-16
physical contact of babies in, 78
prisms, 244-45, 278
pronunciation, 184, 185-86
Propertius, xvi
proprioceptive sense, 303
prostitutes, slang names for, 21
protein, 150, 151-52
Proust, Marce1, 15, 17, 141
psychics, 115-16
psychosocial dwarfism, 75
puberty, 29
puffer fish, xv-xvi, 169-70, 171
Pullar, Philippa, 138, 145, 146, 148
pulsars, 223
pungent odors, 14
pupils, 217, 232, 264-65, 270-71
Purdue University Library, 122-23
Puritanism, 61, 109, 145
putrid odors, 11, 14
Pygmies, 78
Pythagoras of Samos, 211
Quakers, 145
Quechua, 149
Quetzalcoatl, 153
quicksand, 198-99
Quiet Ear, The, 192
Quinn, Anthony, 180
race, body odor and, 22
rainbows, 244-45
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 62
Rastafarians, 85
rats, 74-75, 133
Ravel, Maurice, 220
referred pain, 103-4
reflexes, 107
Rembrandt, 94-95
Remembrance of Things Past, The,
141
REM sleep, 308-9
Rennie, Michael, 185
Renoir, Auguste, 269, 270
reptiles, 87, 92
rhymes, 183
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 65, 114, 118-19
Rimbaud, Arthur, 291
Rimski, Korsakov, Nikolai, 290-91
rings, 281-83
Robe Pretexte, La, 15
Rochberg, George, 212
Rodin, Auguste, 113-14, 118-19
Roman empire, 36, 59, 60-61,
112-13, 120, 274, 296
food in, 140, 143-45, 146
Romanesque architecture, 220-21
Romantics, 296
Romantic Story of Scent, The, 61
Rosalia, 36
rosaries, 36-37
roses, 33-37, 59, 60, 62, 144
in ancient times, 34, 35-36
rose water, 36, 60, 61
Rostand, Edmond, 296
Rubens, Peter Paul, 269
Ruffini endings, 82, 84
Ruskin, John, 227
Sachs, Frederick, 71
Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig,
The, 135-36
Sade, Marquis de, 131
sadomasochism, 108
saliva, 140, 141
salt, 141, 149, 150
Samson, 85
Sand, George, 294, 295
Sargon II, King of Assyria, 60
Saturn, 248, 282
Saxons, 183
Scale of Nature, The, 197
scent-marking, 26-27
scent strips, 46-47
Schadenfreude, 144-45
Schaffer, Peter, 212
Schanberg, Saul, 74-75, 77
Schiller, Johann von, 293-94
Schmidt, Franz, 297
Schonberg, Arnold, 188
Schwarzkogler, Rudolf, 108
science fiction, 29, 90, 91, 185, 211,
211, 221
Scott, Robert, 247
Scriabin, Aleksandr, 290-91
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD),
151, 249-50
Secret House, The, 142-43
Secrets de Maistre Alexys le
Piedmontois, Les, 25-26
Seders, 127
Selby, Jamie and Glen, 69
Selenicereus cactus, 55
self, sense of, 79, 95
self-mutilation, artists of, 108
Sense and Nonsense, 267, 270
Sense of Music, The, 213
Sense of Sight, The, 277
Sense of Smell, The, 23
senses:
beyond common five, 302-3
cultural differences and, xvi
denied in Christianity, 145-46
exploring boundaries of, xv-xvi
novelty craved by, 304-5
reality tom into pieces by, xvii
selectivity of, 304
time spanned by, xvi-xvii
transcendence of, xviii, 301
universality of, 302, 308-9
see also specific senses
separation studies, 75, 76-77
serotonin, 106, 150, 151, 152, 156
Settle, Mary Lee, 298
sex, 56, 68, 78, 97, 105, 108, 109,
114, 306, 307
constancy of, over time, xvi
food and, 130-32, 146
mating preferences in, 38
scent and, 12-13, 43
Shakers, 145, 205-6
Shakespeare, William, 9, 15, 59, 62,
165, 186, 236, 276
Sharif, Omar, 275-76
shivering, 89, 92-93
Shriners Burn Institute, 69
silence, 191
"Simple Gifts," 205-6
Sinclair, Sandra, 262
Singer, Armand E., 194n
singing, 205
Sioux, 102
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 293
skin, 67-70, 77, 103, 104
functions of, 67, 68
growing of, 69-70
human vs. animal, 99
layers of, 67-68
tattoos on, 57, 99-100
sky, 235-48
blue color of, 244, 261
framed by architecture, 241
at night, 245-48
as symbol, 239-40
viewed through tree limbs, 240-41
slaves, in Roman empire, 144, 145
smell, 3-63, 77, 229
basic categories of, 11
biological effects of, 12-13, 28-29,
57
body odor and, 21-24, 38
as camouflage, 32-33
continual presence of, 6-7
decline in importance of, 37, 38, 55
in diagnosis of disease, 38, 54
dysfunctions of, 40-44
as first sense, 20
greetings and, 23, 110-11
language inadequate to describe, 6,
7-9, 10
memories evoked by, 5, 7, 11,
18-20, 58-59
as most direct of senses, 10, 11
nose and, 10-11, 30-32
olfactory regions and, 10-11, 13,
20, 31
pheromones and, 12, 26-30, 37,
162
prodigies of, 44-54
repellant odors and, 24-25
stereochemical theory of, 14
strength of, 14
substances without, 13
taste related to, 13, 141-42, 159,
166
vast range of responses to, 14-15
writers attuned to, 15-18
see also perfumes
sneezing, 31-32, 41
soccer, 102
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr, 135
Sonesta Beach Spa, 57-59
"Song for St. Cecelia's Day, A," 214
Songlines, 215-16
"Song of Solomon, The," 16
sounds:
of animals, 193-98, 199-202
associated with foods, 142-43, 176
colors associated with, 290-91
as emotional curtain, 181, 182
frequencies of, heard by human ear,
188-89
illusory, 180
loud noises, 186-88
in meditation, 205
objects lifted with, 190
onomatopoeia and, 183-84
range in intensity of, 178
sensory stew of, 175-77
transmitted in three stages, 177-78
underwater, 197-98
vibrations through ground and, 199
see also music; speech
sound waves, 177, 178
space travel, 13, 166-67, 190, 212,
223, 249, 282-83, 285, 303
night launches in, 279-81
Speak, Memory, 262-63, 291-92
speech, 182, 184-86
bird song and, 193-94
computerized voices and, 185
human physiology and, 184-85
music as, 215-16
Spender, Stephen, 296
spices, 55, 56, 145, 146, 157-61
Stanley, Dean, 113
stars, 240, 244, 245-46, 248
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 294-95
stereochemical theory of smell, 14
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 295, 309
stimulants, 168
Stradivarius violins, 203, 204
stress, 150
Stubbs, George, 269
subliminal touch, 122-23
sugar, 135
sunlight, 13, 257
sunrise, 248
sunset, 240, 243-44, 255-56, 276
survival manuals, 165-66
Suskind, Patrick, 16-17
swaddling, 78
Swahili, 111-12, 253
Swann's Way, 17
Swenson, May, 298
swing music, 210
Symbolist movement, 291
synesthesia, 287-99
creativity and, 290-92
similarities in, 290
tricks of, employed by writers,
293-99
taboos:
against foods, 135-38, 150
against touching, 121-22
tactile vocoders, 94n
Tahiti, 99
Tale of Genji, The, 28
tango, 210-11
tapetum, 264
taste, 6, 41, 111, 125-72, 229
acquiring of, 141
distortions of, 140-41
double meaning of, 128
dysfunctions in sense of, 41-43
illusions of, 140
individual differences in, 141
perfumes and, 53
precision in distinguishing of, 140
self-protective tendencies in,
148-50
smell related to, 13, 141-42, 159,
166
as social sense, 127-30
space travel and, 166
see also food
taste buds, 132, 138-41
affected by certain substances,
140-41
sensitivity of, 139
size, number, and distribution of,
138-39
wearing out of, 139-40
taste cells, 138, 139
tattoos, 57, 99-100
tea, 148-49
teeth, 133-34
brushing of, 140-41
temperature, 88-94
cryogenics and, 90
perception of, 88-89, 91
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 182, 183
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality, 21
Thayer, Abbott, 261
theobromine, 156
Theophrastus, 35
thinness, 273-74
Thomas, Dylan, 230, 292
Thoreau, Henry David, 15
three-dimensionality, 94-96
thunderstorms, 178, 238-39
time, spanned by senses, xvi-xvii
toccatas, 71
Toltecs, 153
Tom Jones, 130
tongue, 68, 89, 185
taste buds on, 132, 138-41, 143
torture, 103, 147
touch, 6, 65-123, 229, 230, 303
animals as masters of, 98-99
biological basis of, 77-78
difficulties in studying of, 77
essential to newborns, 71-80
evolution and, 78-79
foods and, 168
hands and, 115-19
health benefits of, 121
kissing and, 108-14
life given depth and contour by,
94-96
loss of, 82, 117-18
metaphors of, 70
as most essential sense, 77-78
pain and, 101-8
subliminal, 122-23
taboos against, 121-22
temperature and, 88-94
therapeutic, 119-21
vision related to, 94-95
see also skin
Touch Dome, 97-98
touch receptors, 68, 69, 80-84, 118
adaptation of, 80, 81-82
hair as, 84-88
for hot and cold, 89
pain and, 103, 104-5, 107
types of, 80, 83-84
touchstones, 71
Tower of Babel, 56
transcendence, xviii, 301
Trans Time, Inc., 90
tree frogs, 195
trees, Earth and sky united by,
240-41
Tretil, James, 238
Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 268, 269-70
Trial, The, 95
triboluminescence, 251-52
Tributsch, Helmut, 99
trilobites, 231
Tristan und Isolde, 208
Trueman, John, 61
truffles, 30, 131, 161-63
Turkey, circumcision rites in, 102-3
Turner, J, M, W., 270, 298
Tutankhamen, King of Egypt, 274
Tuttle, Merlin D., 196
Twain, Mark, xviii, 270, 295
2001, 185
ultrasonics, 195,
196-97, 303
ultrasound, 189, 190
underwater sounds, 197-98
Uranus, 282
vagina, "fishy" smell of, 21
van der Post, Laurens, 239, 278n
Van Gogh, Vincent, 268-69
vanilla, 157-61
growing and processing of, 159, 160
history of, 159-60
real vs. artificial, 158
Vargulae, 251
vegetarianism, 136
Venus (planet), 247-48
Venus figures, 131-32
Vibratory sense, 303
Victorian era, 10, 99, 270-71
Viking missions, 99
Villa-Lobos, Heitor, xvi-xvii
violets, 9-10, 36, 59
violins, 203, 204
Virtual Reality, 307
vision, 6, 30, 32, 41, 77, 191, 220,
227-85, 303
in animals, 254, 263-66
artists with disorders of, 267-70
beauty and, 270079
binocular, 229, 264
blindness and, 41, 117, 181,
191-92, 249
camouflage or display and, 260-63
color, 265, 266
depth perception in, 264
details overlooked in, 235
of Earth from above, 283-85
emotions and memories summoned
by, 281-82
evolution of, 231
language and, 7
light and, 231, 232, 233, 249-52,
mechanics of, 232-33
night, 263-64
optical illusions and, 230n
peripheral, 229, 264
remembered or imagined images
and, 233-35
sky watching and, 235-48
touch related to, 94-95
see also color; eyes
Visser, Margaret, 128
voice, 193
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), 295
Voyager missions, 212, 223, 282
Wagner, Richard, 208,
210
Wagner, Rudolf, 139
Walsh, William S., 113
waltz, 210
warm-blooded animals, 90-91, 264
Watlington, Frank, 199
weather, 44-45, 238-39
weightlessness, 13
West, Paul, 8, 192-93, 297
Westminster Abbey, 62
whales, 12, 195, 302
songs of, 199-202
"Whale Songs," 201-2
whiskers, 68, 88
Whitman, Walt, 15, 248, 308
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 9
William the Conqueror, 182-83
Wilson, Teddy, 213
wind, 237, 242-43, 247
wine, 13, 141
wintergreen Lifesavers, 251-52
Wolfe, Thomas, 295
Wolfen, 91
womb, 78, 178-79
wood, aromatic, 59-60
Woolf, Virginia, 15, 104, 292, 295
Words for a Deaf Daughter, 192-93
Wordsworth, William, 295
World of the Newborn, The, 289
World Through Blunted Sight, The,
268, 269-70
World War II, 73-74, 85, 217
Wright, David, 192
writers:
attuned to smell, 15-18
inspiration sought by, 292-99
Wurtman, Judith, 150-51, 155-56
Zuckerkandl, Victor,
213, 220, 221
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