Introduction
In Every Sense xv
Smell 3
The Mute Sense 5
A Map of Smell 6
Of Violets and Neurons 9
The Shape of Smell 11
Buckets of Light 15
The Winter Palace of Monarchs 18
The Oceans Inside Us 20
Notions and Nations of Sweat 21
The Personality of Smell 23
Pheromones 26
Noses 30
Sneezing 31
Smell As Camouflage 32
Roses 33
The Fallen Angel 37
Anosmia 40
Prodigies of Smell 44
A Famous Nose 45
An Offering to the Gods 54
Cleopatra's Heirs 59
Touch 65
The Feeling Bubble 67
Speaking of Touch 70
First Touches 71
What is a Touch? 80
The Code Senders 83
Hair 84
The Inner Climate 88
The Skin Has Eyes 94
Adventures In the Touch Dome 96
Animals 98
Tattoos 99
Pain 101
Easing Pain 104
The Point of Pain 106
Kissing 108
The Hand 115
Professional Touchers 119
Taboos 121
Subliminal Touch 122
Taste 125
The Social Sense 127
Food and Sex 130
The Omnivore's Picnic 132
Of Cannibalism and Sacred Cows 135
The Bloom of a Taste Bud 138
The Ultimate Dinner Party 143
Macabre Meals 146
The Heart of Craving 148
The Psychopharmacology of Chocolate 153
In Praise of Vanilla 157
The Truth About Truffles 161
Ginger, and Other Medicines 163
How to Make Moose Soup In a Hole in the Ground, or Dine in Space 165
Et Fugu, Brute? Food as Thrill-Seeking 167
Beauty and the Beasts 171
Hearing 173
The Hearing Heart 175
Phantoms and Drapes 180
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter 182
Loud Noises 186
The Limits of Hearing, the Power of Sound 188
Deafness 191
Animals 193
Quicksand and Whale Songs 198
The Violin Remembers 202
Music and Emotion 205
Is Music a Language? 209
Measure for Measure 216
Cathedrals in Sound 219
Earth Calling 222
Vision 227
The Beholder's Eye 229
How to Watch the Sky 235
Light 249
Color 252
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall 257
Animals 260
The Painter's Eye 267
The Face of Beauty 270
Watching a Night Launch of the Space Shuttle 279
The Force of an Image: Ring Cycle 281
The Round Walls of Home 283
Synesthesia 287
Fantasia 289
Courting the Muse 292
Postscript 301
Further Reading 311
Index 317