Comments on: not this ceiling’s fan https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/ Found the bike. Not changing the title. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: sassylittlepunkin https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/#comment-1093 sassylittlepunkin Sun, 16 Mar 2003 06:57:10 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=338#comment-1093 <p>my dumping ground utility closet smells like my ex, for no apparent reason. i don't think he's ever been near my closet, for that matter. maybe it's the febreeze bottle i tossed in there. or just that stale-plastic bags-towels smell. i miss the smell of his body, his bed, his roommate cooking greasy food. i miss him. we're all going to be fine, though. we get by.</p> my dumping ground utility closet smells like my ex, for no apparent reason. i don’t think he’s ever been near my closet, for that matter. maybe it’s the febreeze bottle i tossed in there. or just that stale-plastic bags-towels smell. i miss the smell of his body, his bed, his roommate cooking greasy food. i miss him. we’re all going to be fine, though. we get by.

]]> By: Sweet Jezebel https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/#comment-1092 Sweet Jezebel Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:11:02 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=338#comment-1092 <p>Oh, God, the smell. It's the smell that makes me want to go back. It's the smell that makes me want to cry. I miss the smell too.</p> Oh, God, the smell. It’s the smell that makes me want to go back. It’s the smell that makes me want to cry. I miss the smell too.

]]> By: Mia https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/#comment-1091 Mia Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:50:44 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=338#comment-1091 <p>"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists..., after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection."<br /><br />From my favorite passage in Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust. You reminded me of it.</p> “But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists…, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

From my favorite passage in Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust. You reminded me of it.

]]> By: michelle https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/#comment-1090 michelle Thu, 13 Mar 2003 05:19:55 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=338#comment-1090 <p>i sometimes enjoy torturing myself - i'll stop by the men's cologne counter to sniff the scent my ex use to wear. just to remember him for a few minutes and then move on.</p><br /><br /><p>i've always found scents haunting.</p> i sometimes enjoy torturing myself – i’ll stop by the men’s cologne counter to sniff the scent my ex use to wear. just to remember him for a few minutes and then move on.

i’ve always found scents haunting.

]]> By: michybrit https://thisfish.com/not-this-ceilings-fan/#comment-1089 michybrit Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:27:27 +0000 http://thisfish.com/?p=338#comment-1089 <p>Boyfriend-y smells can certainly bring on a flood of tears. Stay strong, Fishy. You're an inspiration!</p> Boyfriend-y smells can certainly bring on a flood of tears. Stay strong, Fishy. You’re an inspiration!

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