Sensual Writing in a Distant Episode

I loved Bowles use of sensual writing in "A Distant Episode." He specifically refers to the Professor's sense of smell, with lines like:
"smell of other things besides the endless ozone of the heights: orange blossoms, pepper, sun-baked excrement, burning olive oil, rotten fruit. "
"The afterglow was nearly gone from the sky, and the pinkness in objects was disappearing, almost as he watched. He lit the carbide lamp and winced at its odor."
"The sweet black odor of rotten meat hung in the air suddenly."
"Also, the odor of human excrement was almost constant as they walked between the walls."
The Professor's heightened sense of smells helps establish him as a foreigner. 

I also enjoyed the use of a Professor as a sort of court jester, especially considering the times. Anthropologists of the time were often exploitative and ethnocentric, so seeing him fall prey to the people he is studying ( I realize the Professor is a linguist, but I felt the connection while reading.) I also felt that a linguist was deprived of communication as very interesting.