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Post by brighteyes on Oct 11, 2017 7:24:20 GMT -5
Hi all,
Which work does "Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another." come from?
I apologise for posting is this section but I was unsure which book this pertained to, so the other sections wouldn't work.
Thank you, brighteyes
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Post by brighteyes on Oct 11, 2017 14:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 11, 2017 16:35:59 GMT -5
Quisby is probably right in that it's from promotional material, and I think it's from the What Kind of Reader Are You quiz that was posted on the official ATWQ Facebook back in 2013. It had a number of witty phrases, which you'd get at the end of taking the quiz (depending on what result you got). They were all written for the quiz, it seems, but it's nowhere confirmed whether by Snicket himself. Personally, I think they're too Snickety not to have been... but it doesn't say anywhere. To find out whether it really is from the quiz, though, you'll have to go through it and get as many different results, hoping to possibly stumble upon your phrase. I once posted one of these witticisms on my Snicket blog ( here), and it got massively popular (94,374 notes). About two years later I saw that phrase quoted in lots of places, incl. ThoughtCatalog (which also quoted the phrase you're looking for) and The Atlantic, the latter of which erroneously accredits it to the ASoUE books... I like to think I've helped popularize that Snicket phrase, which might've otherwise been forgotten in that promo quiz.
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Post by Reba on Oct 11, 2017 16:53:42 GMT -5
lol that atlantic article really sucks
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 11, 2017 17:26:16 GMT -5
what do you expect when the writer quotes from a tumblr blog instead of the books themselves
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Post by Dante on Oct 14, 2017 12:20:11 GMT -5
I just had a leaf through Horseradish, but I couldn't find it there.
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