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Post by Agathological on Mar 28, 2015 17:03:16 GMT -5
Do you think the story will involve lemony running with olivias' crystal ball and been tripped up by harvey? That is a good connection but I think it is unlikely. Olivia is Snickets age and I think she became a faux-fortune teller out of necessity. She doesn't believe in magic and neither I think does Lemony. He relayed that anecdote to say that he felt he is cursed even though I think he would say his misfortune was out of circumstance rather than magic.
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Post by tfrisch on Apr 11, 2015 20:16:01 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Apr 12, 2015 8:30:33 GMT -5
That coffee development sounds like it must mostly be in ?4, yes; nice catch!
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Post by Hermes on Apr 12, 2015 12:07:57 GMT -5
Though it sounds as if he thinks we ought to be seeing it already - perhaps we haven't been reading attentively enough.
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Post by gliquey on Apr 12, 2015 15:33:08 GMT -5
Though it sounds as if he thinks we ought to be seeing it already - perhaps we haven't been reading attentively enough. If the video was made in April 2014, ?3 hasn't been published yet, although I don't know how much of it would have been planned and/or written. Maybe he did intend to have more coffee-based themes in ?3, or maybe we just haven't noticed them. I think I vaguely remember Snicket drinking a cup of coffee, though I'm likely confusing the canon with Dante's fanfiction, or even completely making it up.
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Post by Dante on Apr 14, 2015 5:33:00 GMT -5
Snicket drinks coffee in ?3 once or twice, but at least the first time it's not willingly.
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Post by gliquey on Apr 14, 2015 7:11:13 GMT -5
Snicket drinks coffee in ?3 once or twice, but at least the first time it's not willingly. Still, it's a step up from not drinking it at all, and could be part of the transition between despising coffee and loving it. Also, when Handler says Lemony will "[need] a cup of coffee before he does something", it sounds to me almost as if coffee is going to replace his "get scared later" thing.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Apr 15, 2015 13:32:40 GMT -5
Daniel Handler is just the best, i like the way he started laughing at himself there
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Post by M David Steel on Apr 23, 2015 10:11:21 GMT -5
So we are quite sure Kit Snicket is going to appear in book four. How old will she be? I believe Lemony to be the middle child, although it hasn't been confirmed as such.
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Post by gliquey on Apr 23, 2015 11:48:07 GMT -5
So we are quite sure Kit Snicket is going to appear in book four. How old will she be? I believe Lemony to be the middle child, although it hasn't been confirmed as such. The first letters of the Snicket sibling's names go J-K-L, so I'd expect Lemony to be the youngest and Kit to be the middle child. Do we know the ages of any alphabetically-named siblings (it might be convention, for instance, to name them in backwards alphabetical order i.e. L, K, J)? EDIT: Do we know Lemony's age at the time of the schism? I think Kit said she was aged 4 when it happened (in TPP).
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Post by Hermes on Apr 23, 2015 12:11:06 GMT -5
J and K are normally taken to be twins. The evidence for this is a bit ambiguous:
a. In an old calendar there is a day marked as 'Birthday of Jacques Snicket, and also of his sister' (but that could mean they were born in the same day in different years - and possibly the way it's put suggests that, though I suspect the real reason was to keep K's name secret).
b. In the family tree in TUA the J and K branches spring up together, while the L branch is separated from them.
In any case, we do know that both L's siblings were drinking cups of tea when the volunteers came to collect them, while L himself was either a baby or a toddler, depending who you believe, so I think they are both older than him.
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Post by Duchess on Apr 25, 2015 12:31:32 GMT -5
Okay I know I'm super late but I can't believe that's what they named the book. I saw it at the official tumblr page and thought it was a Passover joke or something.
And for the age: I always assumed they had 3 years in between?
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Post by Hermes on Apr 25, 2015 12:34:07 GMT -5
Three years between J and K, or three years between the two of them and L?
If the latter, it's a totally reasonable guess, but I don't think there's anything that proves it.
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Post by Duchess on Apr 25, 2015 12:45:22 GMT -5
Last year I had a good theory that proves it but I totally forgot the reason.
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Post by gliquey on Apr 25, 2015 12:51:58 GMT -5
I saw it at the official tumblr page and thought it was a Passover joke or something. Yeah, my thoughts were quite similar originally. It was hard to tell when things changed from "here's a hint to the title of the book" to "this is the title of the book", since the first mention of it was captured with a rhetorical question. I'm still slightly questioning "is this really the name they're going with?", and I don't think I'll fully accept it until I see the cover art, or maybe even until the books are being sold.
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