Jitterbug Perfume

FOR DONNA AND THE WATER MUSIC

And for those whose letters I still

haven't answered.

The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms.

— ERNEST BECKER

The history of civilization is the story of man's emancipation from a lot that was harsh, brutish, and short. Every step of that upward climb to a sophisticated way of life has been paralleled by a corresponding advance in the art of perfumery.

— ERIC MAPLE

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

— DYLAN THOMAS

(And) always smell as nice as possible.

— LYNDA BARRY