Imagery

Next to the Big Ben tower
There is a quiet street with an antique bookstore.

I picked up "Great Expectations" there.

After reading the first page
When I turned it, I smelled Varanasi.

Story

Varanasi is the cultural capital of the India. Every day around 100 bodies are cremated at the water’s edge in Varanasi on the Ganges river. This dedication ceremony is an ancient celebration of freedom and reaching to Nirvana. Dickens, this mythical poet of human’s soul with his deep attitude, his potent sense of humor is watching a cremating ceremony at edges of Ganges. He is finding out a way into the light and freedom even though the naked dance of the death!

This is Dickens in Varanasi, the third fragrance from Then There!