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“Take me back to Man-hattan, that dear-old, dirty, town.”
“All the perfumes of Arabia” makes you think of all the perfumes of Arabia and nothing more. It is the trouble with all metaphors where human behavior is concerned. People are not ships, chess men, flowers, race horses, oil paintings, bottles of champagne, excrement, musical instruments, or anything else but people.
