![]() ![]() With mounting unease, yet hypnotized, we see him explore his powers and their effect on the world around him. Slowly, as we watch Jean-Baptiste Grenouille cling stubbornly to life, we begin to realize that a monster is growing before our eyes. ![]() ![]() No one will look after him he is somehow too demanding, and, even more disturbing, something is missing: as his wet nurse tries to explain, he doesn't "smell" the way a baby should smell indeed, he has no scent at all. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something in the aura of the tiny infant that is unsettling. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. ![]()
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