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Post by Amazingmaurice on Mar 7, 2004 11:31:25 GMT -5
does anyone know what "the world is quiet here" means or is a code for?
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Post by negativenine on Mar 7, 2004 12:39:40 GMT -5
I remember someone had a theory somewhere that the world would be quiet if there were no fires and sirens and all that... but I don't know where, and I don't know if I believe it, either.
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Post by Amazingmaurice on Mar 7, 2004 13:56:10 GMT -5
I heard that too and it says its the motto
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Post by SnicketFires on Mar 7, 2004 19:30:45 GMT -5
"The World is Quiet Here" is the motto for VFD. It is also the motto for the Veritable French Diner (Le monde ici, c'est calme). I think that DH got "The world is quiet here" from "The Garden of Prosepine" by Algernon Charles Swinburne (the same poem that is encoded in the Verbal Fridge Dialogue) which starts with the line "Here, where the world is quiet".
The World is quiet here is said by well-read people who beleive that they should spend time reading books, and making the world less noisy (by removing villians and sirens)
This phrase is also said by a volunteer when entering a library.
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Post by negativenine on Mar 8, 2004 16:15:04 GMT -5
And libraries are quiet. Then again, so are graveyards.
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Mar 8, 2004 20:58:08 GMT -5
Where is the world quiet? Not in the middle of a dirty and busy city, maybe in a nice snake garden, certainly in Joesephine's house (she's probably afraid of radios), not in a lumber mill, not in a school, maybe in a penthouse apartment, the crows probably made enough noise in VFD, not in a bus or a hospital full of singing volunteers, not in a carnival, but it's probably pretty quiet up on a mountain.
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Post by SnicketFires on Mar 9, 2004 0:33:59 GMT -5
You bring up a good point...very few places the Baudelaires lived were quiet.
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Post by Skalu on Mar 9, 2004 16:49:35 GMT -5
Where is the world quiet? Not in the middle of a dirty and busy city, maybe in a nice snake garden, certainly in Joesephine's house (she's probably afraid of radios), not in a lumber mill, not in a school, maybe in a penthouse apartment, the crows probably made enough noise in VFD, not in a bus or a hospital full of singing volunteers, not in a carnival, but it's probably pretty quiet up on a mountain. You forgot a Grotto. They're most probably pretty quiet.
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Mar 10, 2004 14:58:22 GMT -5
An anagram for "The Worl Is Quiet Here" is "This Queer, Weird Hotel"
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Post by SnicketFires on Mar 10, 2004 22:55:18 GMT -5
An anagram for "The Worl Is Quiet Here" is "This Queer, Weird Hotel" Strange, and how weirdly appropriate.
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