Despite the fact these women were without exception naturally beautiful they became emblematic of an idea of falseness and artifice often associated with fashion.
The fables and anecdotes in the text attempt to illustrate the falseness of human distinctions between good and bad, large and small, life and death, and human and nature.
This non-linearity is different from true falseness where a string creates false harmonics and is more akin to minor variations in string thickness, string sounding length or minor bridge inconsistencies.