Mr. William Finch is certain that the nostalgic feeling of cleaning out an attic is more than mere nostalgic, but his wife Cora is more down-to-Earth.
Consider an attic. Its very atmosphere is Time. It deals in other years, the cocoons and chrysalises of another age. All the bureau drawers are little coffins where a thousand yesterdays lie in state. Oh, the attic’s a dark, friendly place, full of Time, and if you stand in the very center of it, straight and tall, squinting your eyes, and thinking and thinking, and smelling the Past, and putting out your hands to feel of Long ago, why, it. . .

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  1. “A Scent of Sarsaparilla” by Ray Bradbury, in Star Science Fiction Stories, February 1953.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Bradbury