Ackerman's "Prodigies of Smell" Elaborated
Out of all the experiences described in Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses, one in particular many readers can probably relate to. In the subsection "Prodigies of Smell", Ackerman discusses how scents are associated with certain environmental factors and events such as the coming of storms. https://www.flickr.com/photos/perry-pics/4881703714 "Other individuals have been able to smell changes in the weather, too, and, of course, animals are great meteorologists... Moistening, misting, and heaving, the earth breathes like a great dark beast. When barometric pressure is high, the earth holds its breath and vapors lodge in the loose packing and random crannies of the soil, only to float out again when the pressure is low and the earth exhales" (Ackerman 44). Ackerman dedicates a huge portion of this subsection to detailing how Helen Keller experienced the scent before a storm. People without the disability(disabilities) or challenges Kelle...