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Post by Dante on Oct 3, 2012 15:08:12 GMT -5
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 3, 2012 15:15:50 GMT -5
I wasn't sure about the context for this one as we haven't had Snicketmail in so very long, and this is a diversion from the usual formula. Well, we recognize the illustration as belonging to Chapter Two, but that aside, the subject line is mysterious. "Stanzas in meditation"? Written by Lemony himself, maybe? And ATWQ1/4;1/7 puzzles me, though I'm not sure it should. Have we seen these fractions before?
Edit: Right, the meditation itself. "The ink has begun to fade from the sea" is fairly straightforward, I think, but I'm intrigued by the reference to coffee. Also, why would the question "Who could that be at this hour?" trouble businesses?
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Post by Dante on Oct 3, 2012 15:17:45 GMT -5
ATWQ1/4 - All The Wrong Questions Book 1 out of 4. But the 1/7 is new to us - could this be the first of seven final Snicketmails leading up to the release? The remaining of which will introduce these stanzas, or perhaps other promotional lines such as the one in this image?
To do a full dissection: "attn VFD: stanzas in meditation re: ATWQ1/4;1/7" = "Attention V.F.D.: Poetry being thought of regarding All The Wrong Questions Book 1 of 4; installment 1 of 7."
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Oct 3, 2012 15:20:07 GMT -5
I'm puzzled by the ATWQ1/4;1/7 too. It could just mean chapter 4 and 7 of the first book, but it could also mean that this is the first of 4 or 7 questions/poems/mails like this. We already know that it's the first of 4 questions, so I wonder what the 7 means.
Edit: Oh, Dante and me were writing at the same time, but his thoughts are better than mine...
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 3, 2012 15:23:25 GMT -5
To do a full dissection: "attn VFD: stanzas in meditation re: ATWQ1/4;1/7" = "Attention V.F.D.: Poetry being thought of regarding All The Wrong Questions Book 1 of 4; installment 1 of 7." As good an analysis as any, perhaps supported by the word "stanzas" in the plural whereas we have only one stanza here. If true, it means we can expect the frequency of the e-mails to increase rather rapidly.
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Post by Dante on Oct 3, 2012 15:36:45 GMT -5
I think it figures that they'd ramp things up for October. There are three weeks until the book is out... let's say 7/7, assuming that's the right interpretation, will be sent either on the release date or the day before. So they want to send another five messages before then, I would guess? That will be quite rapid, but I'm sure we're not complaining.
Incidentally, aside from the subject line, the image itself is quite vital - it provides some important context to the actual title of the book, which was starting to seem a bit disconnected from everything else, and in addition we have some more context about the earlier Snicketmail question about where all the ink was going. Coffee, and therefore the Black Cat Coffee Shop and coffee grounds, are evidently more important than we might have assumed, too. Maybe the ink is being stolen and substituted for coffee? I don't know why or how, but...
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Post by B. on Oct 3, 2012 16:10:40 GMT -5
Coffee and ink in the same stanza make me think of the coffee stain on the coat that was actually ink, mentioned in TUA. 1/7 is presumably one stanza out of seven, the rest to be sent separately- although poems and VFD again remind me of Verse Fluctuation Declaration.
If they are to be sent out quickly, then Egmont is going to have to catch up; their most recent one was Story Weather.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 3, 2012 16:33:58 GMT -5
It strikes me that seven stanzas will offer an opportunity to end each stanza in Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How questions respectively, plus a finale.
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Post by B. on Oct 3, 2012 16:38:34 GMT -5
Our forum's current banner is fitting for that, indeed.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 3, 2012 17:37:28 GMT -5
but I'm intrigued by the reference to coffee. Well there was coffee mentioned in one of the latest reviews: involving the non-theft of a not-priceless artifact from a land-locked lighthouse. And coffee grounds." ATWQ1/4 - All The Wrong Questions Book 1 out of 4. But the 1/7 is new to us - could this be the first of seven final Snicketmails leading up to the release? I'm pretty sure this is correct, as the picture is titled "ATWQ1-7.jpg". The previous pictures in the mailouts had the name "LS[insert number here].jpg", so it'd be logical that the "1-7" in the name and the "1/7" in the subject line refer to the number of mails yet to be sent out.
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Post by Old Swinburne on Oct 4, 2012 11:00:04 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I'm going to draw attention to the whole coffee/bitter/wormwood thing; the very fact that the coffee is turning sour could represent some sort of schism? Or at least some background event?
I don't know. It is interesting that they are departing from couplets to stanzas, though.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 4, 2012 14:56:35 GMT -5
More specifically, they're being written in quatrains (taking the indented lines as part of the lines preceding them), though there's nothing stopping them from departing from this format in future mail-outs. It seems unlikely, though.
Concerning the sour coffee, I think this could be interpreted a number of ways. Perhaps, as you suggest, sour coffee is the coded precedent to bitter wormwood?
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