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Post by jtb on Aug 20, 2005 12:01:20 GMT -5
Olaf's Tower! This is the unofficial thread about C O'S Tower! ( This might not be the first one, sorry. I'm new!)
I'll start. Have you noticeed, in the beggining picture of the BB, in the distance between the buildings you can see his tower? I don't know, I just thought that was cool. ;D
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Aug 20, 2005 13:39:41 GMT -5
*runs up to bedroom to see if tower is in the corner of the picture* so it is
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 20, 2005 15:22:26 GMT -5
*Also goes to check her copy.* Why, yes, you can!
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Post by s on Aug 20, 2005 18:14:12 GMT -5
jtb, I know you're new, but please don't double post. There's a handy "modify" button, so if you want to add something to your original post, you can simply click that.
Olaf's tower is probably the most sinister place we have encountered in the series. I mean, sure an elevator shaft is scary, but it's not truly sinister like Olaf's tower. It's his headquarters... robably the place where Olaf comes up with his dastardly deeds. That alone makes it frightening.
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iceangel
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Post by iceangel on Aug 20, 2005 23:17:58 GMT -5
i can't see it...it's probably because you live somwhere where we have different covers
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 21, 2005 13:01:57 GMT -5
No, not the cover, iceangel. Open the cover to the picture just before chapter one and look between the buildings. You should see a bent, twisted-looking pipe-tower thingie. That's his tower (I think.)
But I understand perfectly well why the Baudelaires are so scared of it. One, it's really really really really.....
~~~~~~~~~*One Hundred 'Really's later.......
.....really really really tall, like thirty to fifty stories up. I'm afraid of heights. Sunny probably is now, too. Second: Olaf probably does make up evil plans there. It's the belly of the beast; the war zone; the proverbial atomic bomb testing zone. Third, there's waaaaaaaaay too many pictures of eyes. That's enough to make ANYONE feel watched.......
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Post by Brian on Aug 23, 2005 15:53:22 GMT -5
It is definitely ~not~ that tall. It's more like 3 or 4 stories high, 40 or so feet at the highest. That's going by the story, and not the illustration, which we're not even sure really is the tower. I don't happen to think it is (it's too tall), although I applaud your careful observations.
I do agree with your comments on Olaf's tower being the center of all his plotting and planning, and thus extremely frightening.
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Post by selina on Aug 23, 2005 17:09:59 GMT -5
yes i wouldn't go up there if he said not to. I would be to scarded to she what happens when he finds out.
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Post by jtb on Aug 23, 2005 17:59:46 GMT -5
Sorry I double posted. I forgot. I'll be careful not to do it again! And thanks for the compliments!
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Aug 24, 2005 10:58:24 GMT -5
Back on topic: Like Sunny once said, "Not for all the tea in China!"
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Post by Dante on Aug 27, 2005 15:23:44 GMT -5
Olaf's tower sounded really creepy - although to me, it sounded cool, but I share Olaf's obsession with eyes. The place sounded wonderful.
If I recall correctly, the tower contained many sheets of paper on which Olaf had scrawled, in illegible handwriting, his evil plans. I'd love to know what those were. As the Quagmires discovered, he had quite the history before the Baudelaire children ever met him.
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Ceara
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Post by Ceara on Aug 28, 2005 12:20:28 GMT -5
Back on topic: Like Sunny once said, "Not for all the tea in China!" Which book did she say that in? And about Olaf's tower, I think it would be interesting to just get in there and peek around. You can tell a lot about a person by their room. (Or favorite place to be, etc.) There's probably a lot of important things in there about his past.
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Post by Brian on Aug 28, 2005 20:51:10 GMT -5
If my memory serves me correctly, she said it at the beginning of The Vile Village, about returning to one of the towns.
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Post by Eye Of The Count on Aug 30, 2005 1:18:08 GMT -5
I wished they talked about what's in his tower!
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Post by Brian on Aug 30, 2005 13:09:05 GMT -5
I just reread The Bad Beginning for my commonplace book, and somebody listed the height at one point as thirty feet. That's a bit over three stories.
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