Subj : Beauty sleep
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Wed Oct 31 2018 23:36:13

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

 AK>  From the same book:

 AK>  -----Beginning of the citation-----
 AK>  The second day at the Chateau Marmont was hotter than the
 AK>  first. In fact, the temperatures were breaking records.


           Heh.  The same thing happened twenty years ago, when Dallas & I took 
our daughter to Disneyland.  We thought the temperatures would be more bearable 
during our "spring break" in March than in July or August.  No such luck.  :-))



 AK>  The atmosphere of Los Angeles was also heating up, because
 AK>  the Academy Awards were the following night. Already, in the
 AK>  hotels and smart houses, famous directors, producers, actors,
 AK>  actresses, screenwriters, musicians, lawyers, and agents were
 AK>  getting their beauty sleep and preparing themselves for the
 AK>  big event. The clothes designers, hairdressers, beauticians,
 AK>  jewelers, limousine companies, flower shops, image therapists,
 AK>  and speechwriters of the city were working overtime.
 AK>  ----- The end of the citation -----

 AK>  What is a beauty sleep?


           My mother often spoke of getting one's beauty sleep, especially when 
as a teenager I wanted to stay up later than she did.  IIRC she invariably used 
a possessive pronoun with it, however... not an article.

           I suppose the rationale is that frown lines & other apparent defects 
may be less noticeable in people who are well-rested... [chuckle].



 AK>  If the celebrities were sleeping how did they attend
 AK>  "the clothes designers, hairdressers, beauticians,
 AK>  jewelers... "?


           Good question.  I can see how dressmakers, speech writers, and image 
consultants might make a few changes on the day before a major event... but I'm 
not sure about all the others.  It seems to me that a clothing designer's work, 
e.g., would have to be completed weeks in advance to allow time for other folks 
to do the hands-on part whereas a dressmaker might be called upon to make minor 
adjustments for customers who have lost or gained weight fairly recently.  OTOH 
a hairdresser or beautician might not be able to accommodate everyone who wants 
to book an appointment on the morning or afternoon of the big day itself.

           I know fiction requires the willing suspension of disbelief... and I 
don't move in the circles the author describes.  Maybe thinking too much spoils 
the story, or maybe it's not the sort of literature which can stand up to close 
scrutiny.  While I notice the elegance of the parallisms in this excerpt I must 
admit I'm wondering if the author gets a bit too carried away at times....  :-)




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