Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 14.10.2018 11:56   
      
      
    AH> In the Emerald City, where the wizard lived, everything was   
    AH> green... but now we're talking about a different hotel. If I put   
    AH> the two ideas together I imagine the narrator is referring to   
    AH> someplace like Las Vegas, where there is an air of unreality about   
    AH> everything. When I visited this city years ago there was a hotel   
    AH> with a neon sign cowboy who tipped his hat & said "Hi, Pardner!" at   
    AH> all hours of the day & night, and there were many "wedding chapels"   
    AH> where folks could get married after a quickie divorce in Reno. But   
    AH> I wouldn't expect other folks to draw such conclusions if they live   
    AH> eighteen hours away by air.... :-)   
      
   Yes, the heroes of the novel were in Los Angeles, in the area where film stars   
   live.   
      
   PS: If somebody wants to look at the original text of the book in question   
   ("Molly Moon Stops the World", by Georgia Byng), I have temporarily put its   
   PDF version here:   
   https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fa1Q6yeh1SNMpgI55jRb7YmxDpD7nGai   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   english_tutor 2018   
      
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