The
Saalfeld Perfume Vials – Found texts
The one thing I’ll remember till the day
I die is when the saalfeld perfume vials
Came up. When you recover stuff worthwhile,
It’s wet, it’s rusty, rotten and decayed.
The smell it gives is alien, fetid death,
The kind of death you’ve never seen or felt.
The lab is, therefore, quite unpleasant breath
From ancient ocean wrecks, that we must smell.
And then, somebody opens up this satchel,
And out comes fluttering the scent of heaven.
It’s all these flowers and fruity things, it’s just
Completely overwhelming; and we’re baffled.
Instead, the room that was dead things just seconds
Ago - for those few minutes, for those few minutes-
The ship was alive again.
The original
text, scripted from a documentary
The one thing I’ll remember about Titanic artefacts
till the day I die is when the saalfeld perfume vials came up.
When you recover stuff from the Titanic, it’s wet,
it’s rusty and it’s rotten. And the smell that comes off it is perfectly alien,
perfectly fetid, you know it’s a kind of death you have never experienced. And
so the lab is kind of unpleasant. And then, all of a sudden, somebody opens up
this satchel, this leather satchel, and out comes the fragrance of heaven. It’s
all these flowers and fruity flavors and it’s delicious. It’s the most
wonderful thing you’ve ever had. It was just a complete overwhelming
experience. It was like all of a sudden the fragrance of heaven kind of goes
through the room. So, instead of being surrounded by all of these dead things,
for those few minutes, for those few minutes, the ship was alive again.
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