I was thinking about cap pistols the other day - do they still exist? No idea, but I can see the red paper rolls clearly, amd smell the exploded caps. Love that smell :D Smells can bring lost worlds into existence in a trice - should time travel somehow use smells?
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Oh, yes. Absolutely. The cold, damp smell of a concrete parking garage returns me to a doctor's office I vusuted every week, thirty years ago. The smell of sunlight on barley, to an afternoon at the end of the industrial revolution. Burnt gunpowder to the backstage of a royal celebration during the ancien regime. A different smell for a different past, every one personal and unique. Simply the most effective time travel ever invented, as Proust discovered. Still unpatented, I believe. Some difficulty with returning to the present.
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