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What is "The smell of the Sun"?

Alright, this might seem like cherry-picking for problems, but I'm honestly confused right now.
In the Swedish edition of Breaking Down, on the first page of chapter twenty - New, there is a metaphorical allusion to the smell of the sun. Would anyone please explain to me what on earth this means? Does it literally mean the smell of the sun, a gigantic hot plasma-ball of whirling electrons, protons, alpha-particles and atomic nuclei? I don't think that is the meaning. Is it instead the smell of sunlight? Then please tell me what one mole of photons smell like, because in my mind, lots of photons<=>light<=>sunlight. <=> means "equivalent to".
If it is what I think it is, a description for an unknown smell, then isn't it much more economical and less confusing if its called an unknown smell?
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Please note that I'm seriously trying to understand Breaking Dawn. Yes yes, I know that I misspelled the title above out of unforgivable habit, I regret it very much right now ok? But yes, I'm seriously trying to understand it in order to debate.
Quaila posted over a year ago
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I'll try citing it, but sadly I don't know which page it is on the English edition: Breaking Dawn, Swedish edition, Chapter 20 - New, pp290. It's in the very beginning of the chapter.
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cassie-1-2-3 said:
I can't read it in context because it's not in my book, but it looks to just be expressing not intense her new senses are.

I've always figured, ever since I was little, that everything has its own scent, color, taste, ... (air other than what's traveling through it, dust, gravity)but as we become accustomed to smelling it all the time, it becomes natural and you believe you're smelling nothing.

Not that Bella is a vampire and her senses are more sensetive, she notices everything individually. She can actually identify the scent of the sun.
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Lmao, your typos crack me up sometimes
youknowit101 posted over a year ago
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Lol, I always make horrible typos when I'm using my phnoe, but it appears people liked my answer anyways.
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SerialFangirl said:
I think it was just Meyer trying to be romantic. She had to somehow make Edward seem even more perfect than before and the sun fits in with the whole personification-of-God thing. I don't really get it either. It's probably also her way of showing how super-duper-powerful vampires are, by making them able to smell things that are impossible. My problem with it is that if Bella can suddenly smell the sun when she's never been able to before, how does she know it's the sun she's smelling? It wasn't handled very well, in my opinion.
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xxXsk8trXxx said:
That's Breaking Dawn for 'ya.
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zanhar1 said:
I have no idea so I'll just type someting completly irrelavant: Ummmm... Dobby's socks ate Hagrid's beard.


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Calypso_ said:
In the English version of Breaking dawn it's on page 388 chapther 20 New paragraph 2 line 15 (from the top) (and don't worry I have the book in front of me at the moment) and it says "I could taste an almost-honey-lilac-and-sun-flavored scent" etc etc any way Meyer was most likely figuratively speaking No ONE vampire nor Human can smell the sun but you can smell something that reminds you of the sun maybe making it so called smell like the sun but that's just my theory
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luv_warriorcatz said:
i dont know either....
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Merribelle said:
Maybe she imagines it smells like gold? Though that's not a particularly fetching scent anyways...
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But if it is referring to the scent of gold, why not addressing it as such? After all, it is us mortal humans who read the book and not Twilight-vampires.
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MissChris1974 said:
Have you ever hung clothes or sheets out to dry in the sun? They smell very different then when dried in a dryer or even when hung out when it is shady. In my minds eye (or nose so to speak) I imagined it to be that dried in the sun scent.
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I think they smell different from the drier because of the chemicals and stuff used, not because of the smell of the sun.
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