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The pleasant dusty soporific smell

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We were the only customers downstairs in the shop and there were no windows and only two dim bulbs, without shades. There was the pleasant dusty soporific smell, as though the books had stolen most of the air.

Ian McEwan (in Sweet Tooth)

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