Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

what importance is marlow attached to? how does the narrator describe it?

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Marlow is attached to the smell of oil.

We tried to get away from it at Marlow. We left the boat by the bridge, and took a walk through the town to escape it, but it followed us. The whole town was full of oil. We passed through the church-yard, and it seemed as if the people had been buried in oil. The High Street stunk of oil ; we wondered how people could live in it. And we walked miles upon miles out Birmingham way ; but it was no use, the country was steeped in oil.

 

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)