Witty, but a bit contrived I think. Perhaps the book has more to say, but I was not convinced by the suggested Freudian interpretation.
Another example of a writer with a good sense of smell I think is John Steinbeck, whose first few paragraphs in Cannery Row is a marvel of the literary whiff, even without much description of the smells themselves. [1]
Has the line "Inside Orwell’s Nose a slim volume called ‘Orwell’s Dick’ is wildly signalling to be let out." which is both brilliant and clumsy at the same time, a hard combination to achieve.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 22.2 ms ] threadAnother example of a writer with a good sense of smell I think is John Steinbeck, whose first few paragraphs in Cannery Row is a marvel of the literary whiff, even without much description of the smells themselves. [1]
[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=CQmjRCj-LNsC&printsec=fron...