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Post by s on Jul 28, 2005 16:57:52 GMT -5
Oh, and a small piece of evidence supporting my theory (Or rather, just a random piece of information. It doesn't really point to anything in particular...): Page 27 of the US hardcover edtion of the Unauthorized Autobiography:
Meaning, there is clearly a whole system of underground passageways, and not just one or two between a couple of mansions/penthouses.
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Post by Dante on Jul 29, 2005 3:24:29 GMT -5
Since that message was written probably by an imposter - the napkin which came with the letter had no map on it - it's difficult to tell whether the napkins actually do have a map on them, or whether that was just the writer making a mistake (either by saying that they have a map, or by sending the wrong napkin).
The map is probably the same one that Lemony keeps in a box passed down in his family, which is opened by a key in a box with another key or something.
Ah, here's the quote:
One of my most prized possessions is a small wooden box with a special lock on it that is more than five hundred years old and works according to a secret code that my grandfather taught me. My grandfather learned it from his grandfather, and his grandfather learned it from his grandfather, and I would teach it to my grandchild if I thought that I would ever have a family of my own instead of living out the reminder of my days all alone in this world. The small wooden box is one of my most prized possessions, because when the lock is opened according to the code, a small silver key may be found inside, and this key fits the lock on one of my other most prized possessions, which is a slightly larger wooden box given to me by a woman whom my grandfather always refused to speak about. Inside this slightly larger wooden box is a roll of parchment, a word which here means “some very old paper printed with a map of the city at the time when the Baudelaire orphans lived in it.” The map has every single detail of the city written down in dark blue ink, with measurements of buildings and sketches of costumes and charts of changes in the weather all added in the margins by the map’s twelve previous owners, all of whom are now dead. I have spent more hours than I can ever count going over every inch of this map as carefully as possible, so that everything that can be learned from it can be copied into my files and then into books such as this one, in the hopes that the general public will finally learn every detail of the treacherous conspiracy I have spent my life trying to escape. The map contains thousands of fascinating things that have been discovered by all sorts of explorers, criminal investigators, and circus performers over the years, but the most fascinating thing that the map contains was discovered just at this moment by the three Baudelaire children. Sometimes, in the dead of night when I cannot sleep, I rise from my bed and work the code on the small wooden box to retrieve the silver key that opens the slightly larger wooden box so I can sit at my desk and look once again, by candlelight, at the two dotted lines indicating the underground hallway that begins at the bottom of the elevator shaft at 667 Dark Avenue and ends at the trapdoor that the Baudelaires managed to open with their ersatz crowbars. I stare and stare at the part of the city where the orphans climbed out of that ghastly corridor, but no matter how much I stare I can scarcely believe my own eyes, any more than the youngsters could believe theirs.
TEE – p212-214
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Post by Hanna Squalor on Sept 23, 2005 20:42:42 GMT -5
Although its very possible in that utter black ness that the Bauds could have walked right past extending tunnels I don't think there are others on that one. The tunnels seem to be a fire precaution. A sort of extra exit in the case of fire not really a place to walk. If it were a place to walked I'm sure there would have been some sort of lighting system available for it.
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Post by jman on Oct 15, 2005 7:19:24 GMT -5
This has already been stated, but not in this thread: The embroidery on the back of the Duchess' napkins could show the network of passages.(see TUA)
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Post by Dante on Oct 15, 2005 7:25:28 GMT -5
Although the actual napkin that Snicket received with that letter had no such map on it.
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Post by Antenora on Oct 15, 2005 7:27:00 GMT -5
That letter might not have been from the actual Duchess, if I recall correctly, and the napkin was made of a different material than stated in the letter.
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Post by PJ on Oct 15, 2005 7:51:31 GMT -5
r u and like anetora or something going out or the same person cuz u comment on all the same stuff and seem to be on all day. interested in whatever i'm posting or doing. no one else. there is other non important thread or as u's say not threadyworthy. ppl who have like 5 words written in the whole thing. is this all u do all day? *`~tressa~`* ©copyright ...<3 BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* Sorry, Dante and Nora, but it had to be done. Kudos to you two, I gave up on BB long ago. It's amazing how much patience you people must have to slog through all these pointless threads. And not in a sarcastic way, I really admire you guys for it. I hope I'll get back into BB after the new book, though. Or, at the very least, devise a few more theories. And sorry for being off-topic.
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