“Apples.”<\/p>\n
“Water.”<\/p>\n
“Good.”<\/p>\n
“Girls.”<\/p>\n
“Um. Clean?”<\/p>\n
“Pretty.”<\/p>\n
“Good.”<\/p>\n
“Roses.”<\/p>\n
“Kittens.”<\/p>\n
“MSG.”<\/p>\n
“What?” asks Rose, startled.<\/p>\n
“Girls smell like MSG,” Diego repeats. “That’s the question, right? What’s the most popular response so far?”<\/p>\n
“Just ‘good,'” says Rose. “Nine of twenty-eight couldn’t come up with anything else.”<\/p>\n
“Right,” says Diego, “like if you asked them how Chinese food tastes. Only they’d say ‘MSG’ instead of ‘good’ because they’ve been told that’s what it is.”<\/p>\n
“Girls smell like Chinese food.”<\/p>\n
“No,” he shakes his head, “but it does the same thing. Bypasses your discernment, your categories, all of that. Just hits the pleasure center straight on.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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