The smell is sweet, with urine only a minor component, the prevalent odor suggesting the...
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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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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
Clip duration: 59 seconds
Views: 149
Timestamp in movie: 00h 03m 04s
Uploaded: 24 November, 2022
Genres: comedy, drama
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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00:22 We all have names
00:29 The chair goes up on a lift
00:35 Where am I supposed to put three coats
01:04 Though much of it one could not make up
00:06 Well it's a cut above her previous vehicle
00:16 I mean why Why did you just let me die
00:57 Starting out as someone incidental to my life
00:15 Am I right in thinking
00:25 In future I would prefer if you didn't use my lavatory
00:30 The houses in the Crescent were built as villas for the...
00:28 No They were louts but if you choose to live like this...
00:13 It's like a fairy story a parable
00:16 I bought you these
00:27 This was the only time I ever touched her
00:14 On the move again You didn't stay long
00:11 This isn't Christian parking It's a fucking...
00:15 That's what happens in plays In life going downhill is...
00:18 Sorry you can't park here
00:24 Mary as you call her is a bigoted blinkered cantankerous...
00:20 You all right my love Looking especially lovely today...