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Post by Lydia13 on Oct 21, 2003 18:16:05 GMT -5
Where do you suppose all these events are supposed to take place. Are the Bauds American, French, Hawaiian(not as possible, I admit) ? What do you think, cause I have no clue.
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Post by Efogoto on Oct 21, 2003 19:55:33 GMT -5
Anywhere, nowhere, somewhere. Find a continent with the Mortmain Mountains on it and you're probably close. You know, of course, that you won't find them in an atlas. I suppose, then, that we can say the stories take place somewhere outside any map in any atlas you've ever seen.
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Post by Keya on Oct 22, 2003 17:17:36 GMT -5
I think it takes place in an imaginery U.S.A. someplace near Arizona. How else could Esme talk to the King of Arizona?
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Post by Guest on Oct 22, 2003 21:56:00 GMT -5
Well, he's the KING of Arizona and could have easily flown across the world. ( After all, Esme's the sixth most important financial advisor in the city!(How famous she must be! ))
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Post by Vio on Oct 23, 2003 18:52:17 GMT -5
Yes, but somewhere in the series, it says that someone was talking to the Queen of Winnipeg (thats in Manitoba for all who don't know). How do we know it's not set in Canada?
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Post by Guest on Oct 24, 2003 9:31:54 GMT -5
SNICKET was talking to the DUCHESS of Winnipeg. The only other refrence was in Lulu's library, and who knows where she got that letter...
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Post by Bright HIM on Nov 6, 2003 20:46:18 GMT -5
i think it takes place in england because in the tenth book it says something LIKE,'' it is different than north america." something like that.just a thought.
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Post by Rikku on Nov 14, 2003 21:19:16 GMT -5
whenever I read the books, I usually picture the Baudes w/ british accents. they could take place in england.
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Post by DariaSquagromie on Nov 18, 2003 18:13:24 GMT -5
Okay, if you'll remember, in TEE, when Jerome is giving the orphans a lecture on xenophobia, he uses Asia, Europe, and North America as examples of "different places," so presumably it's not any of those places, which I take to be Lemony's way of saying, "This series takes place both everywhere and nowhere." Or (in typical Sherlock Holmes over-think) maybe he has to disguise the true location to protect VFD? Anyroad, we're looking at a place with large lumber forest, plains, lakes, and high mountains.
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Post by negativenine on Nov 18, 2003 18:21:58 GMT -5
I like the typical Sherlock Holmes over-think! Anyway, we already have several of these threads... I guess I'm coming back with my classic argument: they're written with american spelling and Jerome does say "some parts of North America" or something to that effect. However, I don't think they're necessarily set anywhere, otherwise we have historical inaccurasies up to our eyeballs(seeping in through them and poisoning our livers).
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Post by DariaSquagromie on Nov 18, 2003 19:01:25 GMT -5
Well, Daniel Handler is American, right? So he WOULD be using their spellings . . .
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Post by negativenine on Nov 18, 2003 23:56:20 GMT -5
Right. But when the characters talk there are no Britishisms or... somethingelseisms in their speech, so to a certain extent the author has to control how American he is. Otherwise it makes his characters American.
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Post by DariaSquagromie on Nov 19, 2003 15:32:34 GMT -5
Well, at the same time, although they use the American spellings, they don't go overboard with American slang, and most of the euphemisms used are universal, so he's being more Anywhere-ian than American.
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Post by Amphagorey on Nov 23, 2003 21:20:58 GMT -5
i always imagined them being in a Europiean country. But, if you look in the first book(or second i can't remeber), at the illstration of the fountain outside the bank, its a person holding a dollar sign. Meaning they must be somewhere in the Americas. I hope Canada! ;D
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Post by SnicketFires on Nov 27, 2003 20:00:38 GMT -5
canada uses the $ sign!and the cents sign! we never use the pounds sign
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