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Post by B. on May 17, 2015 15:16:29 GMT -5
The skeleton key was referenced in the last chapter of SYBIS. It relates to Kit trying to escape from prison. There's a deeper meaning than that which you may have overlooked, I think.
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Post by Agathological on May 17, 2015 15:55:24 GMT -5
So we have a tea cup, that to me looks like it is made of a sea shell, which a scrap of paper that is coiled like a question mark. A chalk outline in an irregular pose. A train on the tracks that must be in the City, not Stain'd-by-the-Sea (overhead tracks, more buildings) A skeleton key. and Snicket diving amongst scraps of paper.
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Post by Charlie on May 18, 2015 1:04:56 GMT -5
Love it!
Hangfire death would be a massive twist tho omg, especially if DH decides to reveal he's A Feint at the start of the novel. How exciting!
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Post by Dante on May 18, 2015 9:43:55 GMT -5
Agathological, the teacup is one of Ornette Lost's papercraft creations. Hermes and fragilethings, your deduction of mine and Antenora's regarding about the implication of the right question is correct. I'm not entirely convinced by thedoctororwell's theory that the skeleton key is the (potentially hypothetical) one mentioned in the closing pages of ?3, but I'd be interested to hear Bee's thoughts; what struck me about the key was the way its teeth bear a slight resemblance to a pair of initials.
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Post by gliquey on May 18, 2015 11:35:34 GMT -5
what struck me about the key was the way its teeth bear a slight resemblance to a pair of initials. I can definitely tell there's an "E" there; what's the other initial? I can kind of see a "Y" (or perhaps a "V"), a very long "I" and an "O" at the skeleton's head. I can't really see an "F" (which would make Ellington's initials).
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Post by Hermes on May 18, 2015 11:57:29 GMT -5
Love it! Hangfire death would be a massive twist tho omg, especially if DH decides to reveal he's A Feint at the start of the novel. How exciting! Possibly AF will die, but it won't immediately be revealed that he is Hangfire?
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Post by Dante on May 18, 2015 12:33:32 GMT -5
what struck me about the key was the way its teeth bear a slight resemblance to a pair of initials. I can definitely tell there's an "E" there; what's the other initial? I can kind of see a "Y" (or perhaps a "V"), a very long "I" and an "O" at the skeleton's head. I can't really see an "F" (which would make Ellington's initials). Admittedly, one of the resemblances is more slight than the other. I like to think that it's going for an E.F. simply so that the top half of the pattern is doing something as well. Love it! Hangfire death would be a massive twist tho omg, especially if DH decides to reveal he's A Feint at the start of the novel. How exciting! Possibly AF will die, but it won't immediately be revealed that he is Hangfire? I'd like this a lot; there are many exciting possibilities for this story. But who could the murderer be, if the victim is Armstrong Feint? I think we can probably accept that at this point it is unlikely to be Ellington, for the simple reason that she probably is quite aware of Hangfire's true identity at this point, if she didn't suspect all along. So who does that leave? An emissary of Ink Inc., perhaps? Cleo Knight, the true villain all along? You heard it here first... Of course, that's ruling out elaborate suicide or accident.
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Post by E.F. on May 18, 2015 14:16:44 GMT -5
Sharon or Kellar Haines, perhaps? Either of them might feel they have been driven to the end of the line, and arrive at a not-so-noble solution.
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Post by Agathological on May 18, 2015 15:19:26 GMT -5
Agathological, the teacup is one of Ornette Lost's papercraft creations. Hermes and fragilethings, your deduction of mine and Antenora's regarding about the implication of the right question is correct. I'm not entirely convinced by thedoctororwell's theory that the skeleton key is the (potentially hypothetical) one mentioned in the closing pages of ?3, but I'd be interested to hear Bee's thoughts; what struck me about the key was the way its teeth bear a slight resemblance to a pair of initials. Ah of course! It does look more like paper now I have a closer look. Significance, and also about the key? Is there something I am missing?
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Post by Teleram on May 18, 2015 15:31:43 GMT -5
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Post by B. on May 18, 2015 17:26:41 GMT -5
If AF died I wouldn't feel emotional pain because we basically don't know him, and I reckon there's going to be emotional pain in this one.
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Post by Hermes on May 18, 2015 17:29:00 GMT -5
We may feel emotional pain for the person charged with the murder.
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Post by B. on May 18, 2015 17:29:55 GMT -5
We may feel emotional pain for the person charged with the murder. I'm appalled that you think I'd ever side with a murderer.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 18, 2015 17:35:02 GMT -5
"charged" doesn't mean the person did it.
F.ex., in ASoUE or bios of Lemony Snicket it always said how he's been falsely accused of crimes.
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Post by Dante on May 19, 2015 2:34:25 GMT -5
Lemony might well be a good pick for the culprit, though from our perspective we will almost certainly know that he is not guilty owing to the structure of the books. By the time he finds out about the crime, it will already have been committed. But in the end I think he might well find himself facing the same dilemma, the same right question, as the person who committed the murder. And I've also been wondering, lately, if that question might apply to someone who had to deal with the Bombinating Beast, since if Hangfire were to die, there'd be nobody left who could control it. (Until Snicket figures out what the statue's for, anyway.)
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