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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Aug 2, 2003 9:50:43 GMT -5
Maybe. I have a feeling that the symphony meant something special though.
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Post by CountQuagmire on Aug 2, 2003 13:06:48 GMT -5
It's not a part of VFD training. It would of been mentioned in LSUA.
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Aug 2, 2003 19:22:55 GMT -5
Maybe it's on page 212. But, to be fair, it could have something to do with Ike, the Baudelaire parents, and Beatrice all being related too. Maybe the whistling is a family trait.
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Post by negativenine on Aug 2, 2003 23:42:49 GMT -5
Yeah, there were, but there didn't seem to be any related to V.F.D. training, though. Maybe that was somewhere else. Mozart's 14th Symphony is a really obscure one (written pretty early in his life, I think), so probably it's not coincidence that so many people whistle it-- it's definitely something set up by V.F.D. Maybe Ike was one of the evil V.F.D.ers (or just a V.F.D. wannabe), which would account for him not knowing the right song... or something.
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Post by negativenine on Aug 3, 2003 0:13:54 GMT -5
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound "only UA stuff is true"-like. Obviously it was edited, and there's even stuff burnt out and scribbled in at the last moment. Ike could definitely be alive! We never really heard that much about his death, or even his life, for that matter. It's completely possible that he faked his own death/escaped at the last minute and it looked like he died, but Josephine was too scared to investigate or call other people to, and just left it at, "okay, he's dead, let's work on getting over it, now".
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Aug 3, 2003 0:32:02 GMT -5
I can just see Ike sitting on a rock in the middle of lake larchymose for a year, worried about Josephine all alone. On a rock about a mile away sits Josephine, pining for happier times when she and Ike were alive and in love together. Sorry, I don't usually get romantic.
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Post by Volunteer on Aug 3, 2003 11:42:47 GMT -5
Wether or not whistling is a family trait that links them all together, we can be pretty sure theres a strong family conection between every one in VFD also- maybe in later books V, K, or S Buadelaire will recegnize their mother by her wistling.
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Post by Woe on Aug 3, 2003 13:42:48 GMT -5
I think your right swans
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Aug 3, 2003 21:11:06 GMT -5
You know, the Wide Window isn't my favorite book either. I know that he wasn't afraid to use the phone, I don't remember if he was chicken about other things either. Either way, it would be rotten of him to go into hiding while his wife was still alive and lonely. It's different for Josephine, she didn't have anyone.
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Post by Volunteer on Aug 3, 2003 23:06:43 GMT -5
I always thought his death was fishy. Ha Ha! a pun! wait... are leeches fish?
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Aug 3, 2003 23:15:05 GMT -5
Leeches are invertebrates, otherwise they would get crushed when you step on them instead of attaching themselves to your foot.
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Post by negativenine on Aug 4, 2003 0:07:07 GMT -5
Tee-hee...that's probably not as funny as I think it is, you know. ;D Ah... Leeches... The whole afraid-of-everything thing is fishy. I mean... maybe it's just that all the adult characters in the books are really not-too-realistically-over-____ (insert appropriate word in blank according to each guardian. i.e: paranoid for Josephine, oblivious for Mr. Poe, etc), but if Ike and Josephine really were as paranoid as they act, they'd never do some of the things the end up doing. So... it's quite suspicious... And yes, most of that paragraph was a really confusing run-on sentence, but... I think you can get the point, smart people that you are, and all.
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Post by euromegamouth on Aug 4, 2003 0:14:00 GMT -5
Here's a hint:REREAD "THE WIDE WINDOW"!First of all,Ike couldn't whistle Mozart's 14.He could whistle Beethoven's 4.And second of all,the ability to whistle Mozart's 14 Symphony was required for the PLAY, not V.F.D.Oh and,Beatrice WAS in V.F.D.
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Post by Volunteer on Aug 4, 2003 10:16:49 GMT -5
Same here! Not just lit. though, everything. All my friends hate it, cause I'll name all the paradoxes in terminator, or whatever, and try to explain them, and they're like its just a movie, but I don't see how that couldn't be half the fun for people. and Americans is cool
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Aug 4, 2003 11:04:10 GMT -5
is cool?
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