Dr. Ally/Allie Louks

Although we have already been talking about anal cysts and farting.

But it's always the way it goes, isn't it?

Yes, definitely.

The text that automatically comes to mind is a novel by J.M.

Curzia, who is the author of Disgrace, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

But one of his lesser-known novels is called The Master of Petersburg, and it's a kind of fictionalized account of grief

dostoevsky's life and at the beginning of the novel we see this fictionalized dostoevsky enter the room of his recently deceased son and he kind of picks up various things in the room to smell them he like he smells his pillow he even smells the armpit seam in one of his son's suits and kind of

philosophizes on how his kind of ghost is entering him and is perhaps gaining life again through that experience of kind of being revived through smell oh that's such a beautiful passage it is but also the book itself is is really really horrible it's all about corruption and oh that particular scene gets um very perverse very quickly does it but it starts off it starts off nice

Is that a big yes?

I feel so bad about this because there is someone at the University of Cambridge who now spends a portion of every single one of their working days pressing a button on their computer to send me requests of my thesis.

And I have apologized to them multiple times.

I'm really sorry, Tony.

I could never have anticipated this.

How many people have requested it?

Well over 3,000.

What?

in a victory for tony i can't actually send anyone my thesis i feel like i should say this because i know that people will probably send me an email and say can i have a copy of your thesis i can't because it's under embargo okay because i'm i'm turning it into well two books actually i mean i'm turning the thesis into a an academic literary monograph and i'm also writing a trade book about smell

amazing.

This is an unprecedented situation, but because there are so many people interested in the work, it actually makes a lot of sense.

And the advice that I've received is to keep it under wraps for now.