In a message dated 10/15/2004 4:04:24 PM Mountain Standard Time, colc@gutenberg.net.au writes:
Don't get too hung up on this one, as I am working on a >>"virtual aroma emitter". You rub your left ear in a certain way as you >>read the e-book and can then bring forth mould, vinegar, coffee, new-mown >>grass or whatever is required by that page to enhance your reading >>experience. I just have a few technical hitches to overcome. Version 2 will emit the >>smells without rubbing your ear. It will recognise words like coffee, >>grass, perfume, roast beef, etc. We will need a black list and a white list, of >>course. Most of us don't want to experience the actual smells as we are >>reading about running around the sewers below the streets of Paris.
Aha! So YOU'RE the one who has been sneaking into Snapes's study abducting his potion ingredients! Doggone it, you KNOW Harry and Ron and Hermione got in trouble over it! Apologize and admit your guilt. (Gad. That sounds like a line from THE LAST EMPEROR or TO LIVE, doesn't it!) Anne