Re: Alsen's royal pain


Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 20:14:55 EST


At 11:28 AM -0800 on 2/3/2000, Bruce wrote:

> Muriel remarks, "This is the hottest day they've had in Florida in--" which
> sounds like _APDFBF_ takes place in the summer and not on 3/18/48.

This could be a good either/or. It's reminiscent of Matt K's
technique of blanking out the last four words of the story before
serving it to class.

Given that it's an interrupted sentence, the context could have been anything.

She might have been saying "--in the last month." Or, it might have
been hyperbole: " --in YEars, mother." Certainly given that so many
people are on the beach, it suggests warm season, but Seymour
complains that the water is cold when he goes in with Sybil.

And what 97 New York advertising men would convene in a Florida hotel
in summer to monopolize all the long-distance lines? (And of course
today they'd be impatiently in the lobby with their cell phones....)

I'd guess it's a hot spring. It's a new clothing season. ("How are
the clothes this year?") That's about all I can deduce.

*

> Muriel remarks, "We couldn't get the room we had before the war." But we
> know from _RHTRBC_ that they eloped _during_ the war.

Good catch. It's true that they *could* have had a room when not
married, but given the style of a hotel like this, unlikely. More
likely that it was that loose typewriter....

More interesting mining! Thanks for joining in, Bruce!

--tim

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