“There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.”
Source: Cat's Eye
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Margaret Atwood 348
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“I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.”
Source: Blood and Chocolate
“I have forgotten much, but still remember
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Flame-Heart, l. 9-10
A. S. Eve, Rutherford (2013)
Context: The first point that arises is the atom. I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in colour, according to taste. In order to explain the facts, however, the atom cannot be regarded as a sphere of material, but rather as a sort of wave motion of a peculiar kind. The theory of wave-mechanics, however bizarre it may appear... has the astonishing virtue that it works, and works in detail, so that it is now possible to understand and explain things which looked almost impossible in earlier days. One of the problems encountered is the relation between the electron, an atom and the radiation produced by them jointly; the new mechanics states the type of radiation emitted with correct numerical relations. When applied to the periodic table, a competent and laborious mathematician can predict the periodic law from first principles.
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)