Neville recalls that years earlier, while walking through Harlem in New York City, the smell of cooking instantly carried him -- in imagination, though he remained physically present in Harlem -- two thousand miles away to Barbados. He offers the moment as proof that any of the spiritual senses (smell, touch, sound, sight) can place a person imaginatively anywhere, comparing it to Beethoven composing his finest music through an inner ear after his outer hearing failed entirely.