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Popular Culture Review
I have argued that ‘Flavor’ works in association with ‘Country’ because
it allows the immediacy of experience (small ‘t’ taste) to become intertwined
and connected with an outbound breath; it is part of me because I have held it
inside my body and worked upon it with my taste sense, essentially dissolving it
into myself. To see is to visit, and to taste is to have become part of. Now, part
of the smoke I see, I make personal journeys outbound to Flavor Country. Even
now that I am personally implicated through taste in the smoke I expel out to
Flavor Country; however, my body remains in place as I watch the smoke I have
worked upon travel to its destination.
Here then are two renderings of smoking practice conducted via
discourse. One is based on the no