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"_It puzzles me now, that I remember all these young impressions / so, because I took no heed of them at the time whatever; and yet / they come upon me bright, when nothing else is evident in the / gray fog of experience._" -- / R. D. BLACKMORE: _Lorna Doone_.
Of all the faculties of the human mind, memory is the one that is most easily "led by the nose. " There is a secret power in the sense of smell which draws the mind backward into the pleasant land of old times.