AtDDtA1: The Stockyards

[Otto]

"In 1670, French trader Pierre Moreau built a cabin on the site where
the Chicago River empties into Lake Michigan (Schroeder, 1992:37). The
area was called "Chickagou," (bad smell) by the Potawatomi Indians
because of the skunk cabbage that choked the bogs draining into the
river."
http://www.ipsn.org/genesis.htm
(from Tim's post)

"When leaves are bruised or crushed, the plant releases a strong odor
which smells like rotten meat."
http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/skunk_cabbage.htm

Aha!

2007/1/24, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>    "As they came in low over the Stockyards, the smell found them, the
> smell and the uproar of flesh learning its mortality--like the dark
> conjugate of some daylit fiction they had flown here, as appeared
> increasingly likely, to promote.  Somewhere down there was the White
> City promised in the Columbian Exhibition brochures, somehwere among
> the tall smokestacks unceasingly vomiting black grease-smoke, the
> effluvia of butchery unremitting, into which the buildings of the
> leagues of city lying downwind retreated, like children into sleep
> which bringeth not reprieve from the day.  In the Stockyards, workers
> coming off shift, overwhelmingly of the Roman faith, able to detach
> from earth and blood for a few precious seconds, looked up at the
> airship in wonder, imagining a detachment of not necessarily helpful
> angels." (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 10)
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