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Post by veryfakedonkey on Feb 21, 2016 11:47:18 GMT -5
To anyone reading TBL, here is a timeline I've put together to get a better understanding of the story. It is based off of the unclear dates in the top right sections of the letters.
LS to BB #1: Unknown, but the following letters are all to BB, Beatrice B. who later became Beatrice Baudelaire. BB to LS #6: After LS to BB #1. Schism starts? LS to BB #2: Most likely 1929. It is a year of the snake. LS to BB#3: August of a certain year. LS to BB #4: Two weeks after last letter. ATWQ LS to BB #5: A considerable amount of time later. LS to BB #6: Soon after #5, before birth of Violet, in the late summer. ASOUE BB to LS #1: One? week before BB to LS #2. BB to LS #2: February of a certain year. BB to LS #3 BB to LS #4: SeptemberOctoberish
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Post by Hermes on Feb 22, 2016 13:19:40 GMT -5
Your timeline raises many issues, VFDonkey. My thoughts on a few of them:
a. I think BB to LS #6 does indeed come at the end and is from young B; it doesn't seem to work as an answer to LS to BB #1.
b. The schism happened when Kit was four, so L must have been younger; thus, it comes before the whole of TBL. A lot of us think there were sub-schisms along the way, though (with ATWQ perhaps being the lead-up to one of them).
c. How to fit ATWQ in is indeed tricky. I've always understood LS to BB #3 and #4 to come much later than that, when L and B are almost adults. Given 'my schooldays are over', we suppose that LS to BB #2, where L is clearly still at school, must come before ATWQ, though I'd naturally have read him as rather older, fourteen or so. There's also a problem in that if L and B were already sweethearts at the time of ATWQ, his obsession with E becomes more sinister than it would otherwise have been.
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Post by lorelai on Feb 22, 2016 20:50:37 GMT -5
I'm confused on where you got August from for LS to BB 3? I looked up the anniversary, and it's April 27th. Personally I think that ties the letter to the meeting transcript in TUA (the letter came first), because the only time we get for that is April.
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Post by veryfakedonkey on Feb 22, 2016 20:53:13 GMT -5
I'm confused on where you got August from for LS to BB 3? I looked up the anniversary, and it's April 27th. Personally I think that ties the letter to the meeting transcript in TUA (the letter came first), because the only time we get for that is April. Weird. I looked it up and found August.
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Post by lorelai on Feb 23, 2016 19:11:48 GMT -5
Just did some more researching, and we're both right. According to the calendar that would've been used in Scriabin's time, his death would have been sometime in August, but acording to our calendar, it's April.
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Post by Hermes on Feb 24, 2016 8:28:17 GMT -5
This puzzles me. The difference between calendars is only thirteen days, so I don't see how this can get you from April to August.
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Post by lorelai on Feb 24, 2016 19:43:48 GMT -5
I'm back to being bemusedly confused again then, because yes, there's more evidence for the anniversary being April 14th in the past and April 27th now, so I guess the August source was mistaken. All the information I've found apart from that source gives Aproil as the month.
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