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Post by The Duchess on Nov 30, 2013 18:44:29 GMT -5
Charles Baudelaire had a pet bat! I looked at thousands of analyzes of the lemony Snicket universe, and nobody pointed that out. p.s: I didn't read TBL but read in Wikipedia about Beatrice being a bat trainer. just thought that if you already don't know, you will like to know this.
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Post by Teleram on Nov 30, 2013 21:59:05 GMT -5
Source?
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Post by Dante on Dec 1, 2013 4:07:09 GMT -5
Google turns up a few references to him writing with a bat in a cage on his desk. I do wonder if that was indeed Handler's inspiration for the "baticeer" development in TBL, although I'd also be inclined to think that the anagram came first.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Dec 1, 2013 6:55:16 GMT -5
I didn't know that. While I'm not sure if it was that great for the bat, that's pretty badass anyway.
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Post by The Duchess on Dec 1, 2013 8:10:12 GMT -5
Source? sadly I can't give a source because it's not from the internet and I don't remember the title of the book. Something about wired stuff that poets and authors had.
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Post by thedoctororwell on Dec 1, 2013 8:21:24 GMT -5
More specifically, Beatrice Baudelaire's association with bats is most likely a reference to his poem Spleen.
When the earth is changed into a humid dungeon, In which Hope like a bat Goes beating the walls with her timid wings And knocking her head against the rotten ceiling;
Quand la terre est changée en un cachot humide, Où l'Espérance, comme une chauve-souris, S'en va battant les murs de son aile timide Et se cognant la tête à des plafonds pourris;
So bats are a symbol of hope, although a pretty ominous one. The poem can be found in Les Fleurs du Mal / The Flowers of Evil which is referenced multiple times in ASOUE and ATWQ.
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Post by Dante on Dec 1, 2013 11:24:56 GMT -5
Interesting detail, thedoctororwell. Honestly, if someone tried to write an annotated ASoUE, it would be probably twice the length of the series itself...
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