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How do you know that’s a fair description?

This post was prompted by the ‘100 Word Challenge’ here, where you will find lots of links to other responses. The brief was to write 105 words, including the five-word phrase shown in bold, which didn’t, of course, necessarily have to be at the beginning.

“What does it taste like?” is a common enough – and fair enough – question. Less logical, on the face of it, are many of the answers; indeed, they are often not so much answers as exclamations, like “Aaaarrrgh! Tastes like old socks boiled in washing-up water!” This, of course, is likely to evoke replies like “I’ll take your word for it. I’ve never tried that…”

However, this kind of thing isn’t as illogical as it sounds; this is because the majority of what we consider to be taste is, in fact aroma or smell – and the sense of smell is very powerfully connected to the memory!

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Reminiscing…

Our ‘100 word challenge’ set out here, where you’ll find a list giving links to all the responses, is to write 100 words (of course) including in the piece the additional seven words shown in bold print in my attempt below. 

In the centre stage part of my memory, I can remember the day I mastered the skill of fluent reading. I had been ill, and, once back at school, I asked for every reading book my teacher had in the book cupboard. I devoured them one after the other. I can also recall the day I found out that, if you just kept your nerve (and kept pedalling)while looking in front of you, a bike would stay upright and you wouldn’t fall off. From a later time, I hear again the words “You’ve passed your test, kid!”

In the dark recess of my mind, I remember… yesterday.

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