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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.
I count 5 women sacrificed for this one old hag. Oof.
But pretty fitting metaphor of our generations today…
Agreed.
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.”
Is this how Elizabeth Bathory got started?
Unlikely, but it may well be that Elizabeth Bathory is how this story got started.
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?)