There's a point at which funk, one's own funk, turns from rank to righteous. I don't know how that is true, but it is. If left to mature properly, that one-day 'yeesh I sure could use a shower' smell blossoms and ripeness into a scent one might more closely identify with a simmering winter stew rather than a rotting slab of road kill. An olfactory delight emerges, rich, full, savory; setting one in a totally sanguine-by-it's-rightness state of mind.
Or I've sat in this house for a week straight and have gone insane. Either way.
Posted by Antigeist at February 7, 2005 12:55 PMdamn. that sounds lovely. i'm coming over!
Posted by: z at February 7, 2005 02:00 PMAnd yet I have never seen "eau de simmering winter stew" at the perfume counter! By the way, have you put this asessment of your aroma up for a household vote? I'm thinking particularly of G here- I'm sure Blue digs it, but I'd think you'd want to strive for unanimity as far as such things are concerned.
Posted by: monk at February 7, 2005 02:36 PMi keep thinking about this, and how right you are. after a while without a shower, especially if the cause of the "while" is stress, i start to feel like the sensation of being clean, if i can't get really, REALLY clean, won't be as comforting as my own funk. i don't THINK this, because that would be icky, but i FEEL it. but "simmering winter stew" is a perfect description:your own comfort food.
you should shower, though. or take a bath, if that's your way. just in case you're insane, it could help you imagine for a moment that you aren't.
If I don't have to go anywhere on weekends, I don't shower or shave, same goes for vacations.
But I prefer not to apply moral values to my funkiness. I'm merely a slob.
Posted by: jonmc at February 8, 2005 09:20 PMHow is your dog doing?
Posted by: Lioness at February 9, 2005 08:20 PMAre you the same girl who had a series (?) in the FREEZER about the soulfulness of well-nigh endless baths? Like endless baths?
Posted by: janetissimo at February 17, 2005 07:56 PMNot me janet. I was the one who wrote about refrigerators. And Christ. And invisible men.
Same theme and content when it comes down to it. Which is why I gave up writing. The one trick pony thing only works when it's a really good trick.
Like turning water into wine. Man, would I like to get my hands on THAT kinda alchemy.
Posted by: antigeist at February 17, 2005 08:05 PM