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Being albino, Margaras can put on any eye
color, hair color, skin color, right up until he
“whites” the target. “Push,” “off,” “grease,”
“blow away” are out: “White” is in. The
White Purr: without color, he attracts all col-
ors and all stains; without odor, he attracts
all odors, the fouler the better, into smell
swirls, whirlpools, tornados, the dreaded
Smell Twisters, creating a low-pressure smell
wake so that organic animals explode behind
them, the inner smells sucked into the Stink
Twister round and round faster faster throw-
ing out a maelstrom of filth in all directions,
sucking in more and more over a cemetery
and the coffins all pop open and the dead do
a grisly Exploding Polka. Privies are sucked
out by the roots with old men screaming and
waving shitty Montgomery Ward catalogues.
Odors can also be the most subtle and
evocative agent for reaching past memories
and feelings.
“The nuances, you understand.”
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