9 thoughts on “Beware the Asylum: Part III, Page 22”

  1. One of the jars from Baldy’s briefcase.
    Jeunesse=”Youth”. The lives of three young women sacrificed to stroke the vanity of a wealthy aging woman? Reminds me of the wines distilled in an adventure a few chapters back.

  2. Hey, it’s SUPER SCIENCE. It probably even WORKS in the context of the story. I can think of more than a few people that I would be confident would cheerfully smear distilled essence of innocent baby on themselves if it would make them ten years younger, even if it took a thousand babies to make one jar. And some of them have access to an unGodly amount of cashflow.

    • I recall F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked once “The very rich are different from you and me,” to which Hemingway is supposed to have retorted, “Yes, they have more money.”

    • Unlikely, but it may well be that Elizabeth Bathory is how this story got started.

  4. Jeunesse is a real company that might not appreciate having someone intimate their product is made from distilling young co-eds.
    They advertise a lot on local radio and even my wife uses one of their products. Pretty good at tightening the skin and taking care of bags and wrinkles.

    • Their trade dress appears to be quite different and I doubt they own the rights to a common French noun. (Also, they should be thrilled if anyone comes to believe that their product has the properties of the fictional one here, no?)

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