Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
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:02:03
But he always smelled like vanilla.
:02:06
He used to drink that extract
when he couldn't get wine.

:02:10
You couldn't let him breathe on you,
so I'd stand behind him.

:02:14
And he'd get mad.
He'd get mad and hit me.

:02:21
Even now, doctor, when I smell
something sweet, I get dizzy.

:02:27
We've discussed association before.
In relation to odours, it's quite common.

:02:33
Yes, Eli?
:02:37
To me, no odour's really distasteful...
:02:40
...in the sense that I don't associate it
with a psychological problem.

:02:45
As a matter of fact, there are
certain scents that arouse in me...

:02:51
...a series of rather pleasant memories.
:02:54
Like... when I was a bellboy
in a Chicago hotel.

:03:00
I was 14 years old.
My first job.

:03:04
And in an elevator,
I learned to tell the size of a tip...

:03:09
...by the cologne the guest
was wearing.

:03:13
That hotel was really an education.
:03:16
As a bellboy, you had to be
a supplier of sorts.

:03:20
After-hours booze for the lushes,
grass for the potheads...

:03:25
...and girls for the needy.
:03:29
And it was amazing
how you could identify these people...

:03:34
...and their desires with your nose.
:03:41
Mom...
:03:45
My mother, she always smelled good...
:03:49
...especially when she was going out.
:03:52
Which reminds me...
:03:55
I was... 10.
:03:59
Before my father died...

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