"...waters tumbled and roared, molten in the sunlight...the wind blew chill and wet and smelling of salt. There were many gray sea birds in the sky."
-Poul Anderson, The Night Face IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 541-660 AT III, p. 567.
Sound and sight. Felt chill and wetness. Smelled salt - and I think that it would be tasted in the air as well? Here, the four (or five) senses are presented very quickly in just a few sentences.
Anderson shows us colonized terrestroid planets like Gwydion but also many humanly uninhabitable planets and, in fact, Gwydion is due to give us a surprise.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think you are right, what Anderson called the smelling of salt is more accurately called "tasting." But, odor might also play a role.
Ditto, what you said about the surprise Gywdion will spring on us!
Sean
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