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Quote #128597

To that daintiest siren of puff and perfume, a Turkish cigarette.

Minna Thomas Antrim

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The line treats a “Turkish cigarette” as a seductive, almost personified object—“that daintiest siren of puff and perfume.” Antrim’s phrasing fuses scent (“perfume”) and breath/smoke (“puff”) to emphasize the cigarette’s allure and its power to entice despite (or because of) its ephemeral, airy nature. Calling it a “siren” invokes classical mythology: an attractive voice or presence that lures one toward indulgence or danger. The adjective “daintiest” adds a note of refined, fashionable delicacy, suggesting a social milieu in which smoking is aestheticized as a stylish pleasure rather than a vice.

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