Corn Vendor Stopping at the station, to take on passengers, railway vendors provide "fast food" for hungry travelers. The irresistibly tempting aroma of this freshly cooked corn wafted into the train, for a moment displacing the ever-present diesel fumes.

"The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connections.   - Lewis Thomas -

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