“Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.”

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

“If it burns, blows up or acts like alien blood then call me.”

“e-books "smell like burned fuel”

“Smells like homeless man's crotch. Not that I've ever been up close and personal with a homeless man's crotch, but...”

“I looked at the ornaments on the desk. Everything standard and all copper. A copper lamp, pen set and pencil tray, a glass and copper ashtray with a copper elephant on the rim, a copper letter opener, a copper thermos bottle on a copper tray, copper corners on the blotter holder. There was a spray of almost copper-colored sweet peas in a copper vase.It seemed like a lot of copper.”