感官

Diane Ackerman, "A natural history of the Senses"
艾克曼，《感官之旅》，莊安祺譯，時報出版

●嗅覺

⊙Hellen Keller：有史以來最偉大的感官專家

⊙Holmes

⊙Napoleon
（給約瑟芬的信）見面前兩週不要洗澡，好讓他盡情享受她天然的氣味。(p.12)

⊙Shakespeare

A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward,not permanent,sweet,not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute,
No more.(Hamlet I.iii,7-)

The forward violet thus did I chide:
Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,
If not from my love's breath? ... (SONNET 99)

⊙Edwin Morris
氣味幾乎沒有短期的記憶。

⊙Kipling
氣味比起景物和聲音來，更能使你的心弦斷裂。

⊙Ackerman
如果我們把香水給某人，就給了他們液體的記憶。
香奈兒五號：高音部...中音部...低音部（動物）。
麝香的發現：獸交行為。
麝香氣味分子是圓盤型的...薄荷有桿狀...樟腦為球形....(p.17)

⊙Ferenczi
《海：生殖理論》子宮氣味如泡沙丁魚的鹽水，才使男性只與女性做愛。(p.24)

⊙作家與氣味(p.18-21)

⊙Sueskind:他每天喝一杯牛奶，可以嗅出母牛在分泌乳汁時的情緒。(p.20)

⊙屁：From The Merck Manual of Diagnosis And Therapy, 16th edition

Flatulence: Among those who are flatulent, the quantity and frequency of gas passage shows great variability. As with bowel frequency, persons who complain of flatulence often have a misconception of what is normal. In a study of 8 normal men aged 25 to 35 yr, the average number of gas passages was 13 ± 4 in one day with an upper limit of 21/day, which overlapped with many persons who complained of excess flatus. On the other hand, one study noted a person who expelled gas as often as 141 times daily, including 70 passages in one 4-h period. Hence, objectively recording flatus frequency should be the first step in evaluating a complaint of excessive flatulence.

This symptom, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics:

The "slider" (crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect;
The open sphincter, or "pooh" type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic;
The staccato or drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy; and
(4) the "bark" type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature.
Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as "Le Petomane," who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage. Despite the flammable nature of flatal H2 and CH4, no hazard is likely to those working near open flames, and youngsters have even been known to make a game of expelling gas over a match flame. However, gas explosion, rarely with fatal outcome, has been reported during jejunal and colonic surgery, and even during proctosigmoidoscopic procedures, where diathermy was used.

⊙Pheromones(p.29)

⊙Avery Gilbert:「把女性交配時生殖腺所分泌的液體裝滿一瓶，放在男性的桌上，若他認出了這個氣味，必會感到窘迫，因為背景不對，而背景才是造成興奮的原因。(p.31)

●觸覺

⊙嬰兒按摩(p.75)

⊙摸母牛陰道：我永遠忘不了我第一次緩緩抽出手時，感到牛肌肉的一一收縮舒張的驚喜，向一排人排隊輪流向我握手。(p.81)

⊙「阿拉伯的勞倫斯」：「你用什麼技巧使自己忍痛呢？」「技巧就是不在乎」。(p.99)

⊙Woolf:「英文雖能表達哈姆雷特的思想，和李爾王的悲劇，卻無法描述顫抖和頭疼....讓病人向醫師描述他的頭疼，他必然詞窮。」(p.102)

⊙自殘表演者(p.106)

⊙專業觸摸者(p.116)

⊙（三百年前婦科醫師）這種保持隱私的作法使的切斷臍帶都成為十分危險的手術。(p.117)

⊙被潛意識觸摸的學生對生活比未遭觸摸的滿意得多。(p.119)

●味覺

⊙食物與性(p.126)

⊙Epicurus:「縱情於神暗示我們的種種歡愉，乃是取悅神的方式，我們的需要乃是源於她的法則，而我們的慾望則是來自她的靈感。(p.138)

⊙Ovid:「若有人提供我沒有性的天堂，我會說：敬謝不敏，女人是這麼甜美的地欲。」(p.140)

⊙（母豬找松露）在她身後整個田園都充滿了英俊公豬所散發出來的愛的氣息，每一隻都渴望著她，但卻一隻也看不見。(p.155)

⊙吃河豚

●聽覺

⊙Keats
Heard melodies are sweet,but those unheard
Are sweeter...(Ode on a Grecian Urn)

⊙法文語彙的含蓄(p.174)

⊙Paul West:「給失聰女兒的話」(p.182)

⊙鯨之歌(p.190)

⊙Mendelssohn
並不是音樂太抽象，而是因為它太精確，才不能翻譯成其他的音樂風格，更不用說譯為文字了。

⊙Carlyle:「所有熱情的語言本身都有音樂性。縱使狂怒時，人的語言都會變成讚美詩和歌曲。」(p.206)

⊙Dodge:「太陽在地球磁場上演奏」(p.212)

●視覺

⊙北極星的光在莎士比亞時代即開始出發了。(p.230)

⊙Whitman:「我見到的明亮星球，和我見不到的黑暗恆星，都各安其位。」(p.233)

⊙色彩並不是發生在世界上，而是在你我心理。(p.238)

⊙（藝術家與疾病）Merleau-Ponty:「當Cezanne日漸老去，他開始懷疑，自己繪畫中的新意是否只源於自己眼睛的問題；她的整個生命是否只基於這樣一件肉體上的意外。」(p.250)

⊙O'Keeffe:「由某個觀點來看，可以說沒有人真正地看到一朵花，它這麼小，而我們又沒有時間——看需要時間，就像交朋友需要時間一樣」。(p.253)

⊙Aristotle:「美是比任何介紹信都有力的推薦。」(p.254)

●共感覺

⊙Scriabin與Korsakoff都曾把顏色和所寫的音樂聯想在一起。(p.271)

⊙作家的癖好(p.275-80)

●其他

⊙不認識的女性進入房間時，男人的睪固酮量會突增；相同地，當有新的男性進入房間時，女性的荷爾蒙也會徒然增加。(p.287)

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2001.12.17閱