“So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.”
Closing lines.
The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)
“Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.”
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Oliver Sacks
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book
Uncle Tungsten
Source: Uncle Tungsten (2001), p. 90
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