But as she goes, the original theme returns, her own primary odor now triumphantly...
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[first lines] Alan Bennett:
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The smell is sweet, with urine only a minor component, the prevalent odor suggesting the inside of someone's ear. Dank clothes are there, too, wet wool and onions, which she eats raw. Plus, what for me has always been the essence of poverty, damp newspaper. Miss Shepherd's multi-flavored aroma is masked by a liberal application of various talcum powders, with Yardley's Lavender always a favorite. And currently it is this genteel fragrance that dominates the second subject, as it were, in her odoriferous concerto. [walking down the hallway] Alan Bennett:
But as she goes, the original theme returns, her own primary odor now triumphantly restated and left hanging in the house long after she has departed
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The smell is sweet, with urine only a minor component, the prevalent odor suggesting the inside of someone's ear. Dank clothes are there, too, wet wool and onions, which she eats raw. Plus, what for me has always been the essence of poverty, damp newspaper. Miss Shepherd's multi-flavored aroma is masked by a liberal application of various talcum powders, with Yardley's Lavender always a favorite. And currently it is this genteel fragrance that dominates the second subject, as it were, in her odoriferous concerto. [walking down the hallway] Alan Bennett:
But as she goes, the original theme returns, her own primary odor now triumphantly restated and left hanging in the house long after she has departed
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BENNETT The smell is sweet with urine only a minor component
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the prevalent odour suggesting the inside of someone's ear
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Dank clothes are there too
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wet wool and onions which she eats raw
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plus what for me has always been the essence of poverty
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damp newspaper
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Miss Shepherd's multi flavoured aroma
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is masked by a liberal application of various talcum powders
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with Yardley's Lavender always a favourite
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And currently it is this genteel fragrance
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that dominates the second subject as it were in her odoriferous concerto
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But as she goes the original theme returns
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her own primary odour now triumphantly restated
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and left hanging in the house long after she has departed
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Movie Summary
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
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Alan Bennett
