Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 25, 2012 15:35:37 GMT -5
Presumably, the Snicketmails haven't all been released yet, but I think it might be worthwhile to look over again the ones that have after having read the book.
It's interesting that "Why would anyone want to steal this statue?", "Who is Ellington Feint?", "Where has all the ink gone?", "When does the bell ring?", "How can we stop him?", and "What?" are all asked by the narrator throughout the book, and left mysteries at the end. In other words, they weren't simply teasers to get us thinking. They were all legitimate, in-story questions.
"It's for thee" is a bit more explicit. Hangfire's voice imitations are answered by Lemony in this fashion.
"804.1" seems like it might refer to An Analysis of Brown, Black, and Beige, but that doesn't fit where music falls under the Dewey Decimal System. Does this have to do with one of the interlibrary loans?
"Keep your eyes on the road" could have a couple meanings. Lemony sits in the back of the roadster on his way to Stain'd, but could this also allude to youthful Pip and Squeak's mastery of the taxi?
"Stormy weather," I think, might refer to Moxie. Not only does she live in a lighthouse with no ocean nearby, but also her work in journalism has become less useful since the newspaper went out of business. Nonetheless, she keeps up the "flashy" persona.
"And a toothbrush": No one died, but "black and formal" sounds a bit like Theadora's burglary outfit. (Although it's true the two sentences make semantically less sense this way.)
"Cave-dwellers, all of us" is pointing more generally to the mood of Stain'd, I feel. However, there were no armaments in WCTBATH, and I don't think the town was especially damp - save for Dame Murphy Sallis's experience.
"Qwerty" is interesting, because of the content joined with the subject line. "Villainy is like a typewriter - it's old-fashioned, but it still makes permanent marks." This sounds like something Qwerty would say, but didn't. Could it just be a reinforcement of the allusion in his name?
"Third from the left" - do we know the man's identity now? I think it's possible he might be Hangfire in disguise, but that doesn't especially fit the text: "Each of us is a stranger to someone, and to someone else we are even stranger."
It's interesting that "Why would anyone want to steal this statue?", "Who is Ellington Feint?", "Where has all the ink gone?", "When does the bell ring?", "How can we stop him?", and "What?" are all asked by the narrator throughout the book, and left mysteries at the end. In other words, they weren't simply teasers to get us thinking. They were all legitimate, in-story questions.
"It's for thee" is a bit more explicit. Hangfire's voice imitations are answered by Lemony in this fashion.
"804.1" seems like it might refer to An Analysis of Brown, Black, and Beige, but that doesn't fit where music falls under the Dewey Decimal System. Does this have to do with one of the interlibrary loans?
"Keep your eyes on the road" could have a couple meanings. Lemony sits in the back of the roadster on his way to Stain'd, but could this also allude to youthful Pip and Squeak's mastery of the taxi?
"Stormy weather," I think, might refer to Moxie. Not only does she live in a lighthouse with no ocean nearby, but also her work in journalism has become less useful since the newspaper went out of business. Nonetheless, she keeps up the "flashy" persona.
"And a toothbrush": No one died, but "black and formal" sounds a bit like Theadora's burglary outfit. (Although it's true the two sentences make semantically less sense this way.)
"Cave-dwellers, all of us" is pointing more generally to the mood of Stain'd, I feel. However, there were no armaments in WCTBATH, and I don't think the town was especially damp - save for Dame Murphy Sallis's experience.
"Qwerty" is interesting, because of the content joined with the subject line. "Villainy is like a typewriter - it's old-fashioned, but it still makes permanent marks." This sounds like something Qwerty would say, but didn't. Could it just be a reinforcement of the allusion in his name?
"Third from the left" - do we know the man's identity now? I think it's possible he might be Hangfire in disguise, but that doesn't especially fit the text: "Each of us is a stranger to someone, and to someone else we are even stranger."