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Perfume @ Cane Rosso

12/4/2016

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1301 S Broadway St, Carrollton, TX 75006
It's nice to see historic downtown Carrollton getting a hip pizza joint. Canne Rosso claims to have the most authentic Neapolitan style pizza in the metroplex with imported flour from Italy, but I have neither the experience nor  the refined palate to confirm this. Of our bunch, we have a few pizza lovers, but no one was terribly impressed with our meals. The thin crust seemed to be either too burned or undercooked, but Natalie and Megan have had glorious experiences at Cane Rosso before, so maybe this was just a fluke. When you visit, don't forget to take a selfie on the pig next door and visit Bloom's Candy and Soda Pop shop across the way.

Book Review

​Perfume was first published in German in 1985, and none of our translations were particularly inspiring as far as language is concerned, but this parable-like story of a man with a super-human nose is going to be hard to forget. Right away our narrator tells us that we are going to read about one of the most dispicable humans to have ever lived. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, whose last name means "frog" in French (Yes, we read a German novel set in France and translated into English), lives a sort of invisible life as an orphan in the 1700s before discovering a passion to add to his ability. Able to hunt for scents even with his eyes closed, he begins to murder young virginal women in the hopes of creating a perfume from them so powerful that it will cause the world to love him.

​The descriptions and plot were gross enough to turn off Megan, and Robert was bored with it for the most part, but the rest of us found it pretty interesting--especially the parable or even fairy-tale aspect of the plot. Süskind weaves a certain fateful repetition, which is satisfying. In a way, Grenouille is some sort of grotesque Cinderella trying to make a dress to wear to the ball, and like most good fairy tales, Perfume'​s ending is absolutely inevitable.

Memorable Lines

He only smelled the aroma of the wood rising up around him to be captured under the bonnet of the eaves. He drank in the aroma, he drowned in it, impregnating himself through his innermost pores, until he beame wood himself; he lay on the cord of wood like a wooden puppet, like Pinocchio, as if dead, until after a long while, perhaps a half hour or more, he gagged up the word "wood."

​The result was that the scheduled execution of one of the most abominable criminals of the age degenerated into the largest orgy the world had seen since the second century before Christ.

Star Count

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Megan--1
​Robert--1.5
Kristen--3 (In absentia)
Matthew--4
​Kim--4
​Natalie--5

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