Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Feb 26, 2019 0:21:40 GMT -5
This is Part 2 of Strange Interpretation by Jean Lucio From Brazil.
To understand this Thread, it is necessary to read my first thread in the link below.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35828/lemony-snickets-narration-culturally-different
It is a strange fact that for me to prove that Lemony is lying on purpose in some passages of his work in ASOUE, I have to first prove that he has seriously endeavored to write truths in most of his work. But the theory is called "the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil", so strange things will appear here. Strange, but fruits of reasoned ideas.
I believe the good liar is not that person who lies all the time. People like that lose credibility and stop fooling anyone, even when that is necessary. Good liars speak the truth most of the time, gain the confidence of others, and choose the moments of using lies with surgical precision. Good liars deceive people for generations, and I believe that Lemony is a good liar.
I will demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish what is true from what is false in ASOUE.
Apparently, there are no intentional lies about Sunny, Violet and Klaus told by Lemony Snicket in the 13 books of ASOUE. Lemony claims that his work on these children is the fruit of a promise. At ATWQ we realize that Lemony is someone who gives great value to keeping his promises. In addition, in a personal note found in the UA in chapter 1, Lemony Snicket wrote:
"It makes me sad to think that my whole life, from to cradle to the grave is full of errors, but at last that will not happen to the Baudelaires."
As I explained in my previous text, the documents found in the UA were not written for the Great Public in the universe of Lemony. The passage comes from a personal note, so logically Lemony would not lie to himself.
So, you can trust that the whole main story of ASOUE is true.
This phrase matches the reports Lemony Snicket wrote about his own research on the events involving Sunny, Klaus, and Violet. Lemony seems to seek physical evidence of the smallest details about the events surrounding Beatrice's three children.
Besides that, the letters to the editor were not written for Lemony's large audience, so these letters also have credibility.
Thus, if there are intentional lies in the 13 books of ASOUE they could only be found in the following excerpts:
1 - In the dedications.
2 - In the descriptions of the events involving the own Lemony Snicket and Beatrice.
3 - In the descriptions of situations that were occurring during the writing of books that did not directly involve the Baudelaire siblings.
4 - Description of events related to other minor characters that occurred at different moments of the main events narrated in the books.
Of course, just because Lemony might be lying in these snippets, that does not mean he's actually lying. I just want to point out that Daniel Handler made a point of highlighting in the UA that the story about Sunny, Klaus and Violet are true, and the result of Lemony Snicket's research, not the result of Lemony Snicket's imagination.
But that raises another question: How could Lemony Snicket know about events involving Sunny, Klaus, and Violet with so much detail? For example, in some scenes, Sunny, Klaus and Violet talk to each other on their own. How could he know the content of these conversations? In addition, some events would be impossible to deduce only through observation or interviews. For example, in book 10 of ASOUE, Lemony narrates events inside the caravan, however Lemony states that he could never find what was left of the caravan after trying to find it for several months. How could Lemony know about the parachute built by Violet? What about the sticky mix that Klaus created to slow down the caravan?
Or how could Lemony know about what the Baudelaires talked about while they were on their own at Queequeg?
Lemony would need to have a source of reliable information on these matters, and only source of reliable information would come from the Baudelaires themselves.
The answer of my theory to this question is based on the following premise: In writing the 13 books of ASOUE, Lemony Snicket was writing about a past many earlier. When I talked to Dante, I realized that this is a premise questioned by many fans in the United States. Dante explained to me that for many fans Lemony's references to the many years that have passed between the events and the publication of the ASOUE books are Daniel Handler's mistakes, or evidence that Daniel Handler changed his plans during writing of his books. I do not agree with this. Of course, maybe I'm wrong, and I do not want to accept that the books I love so much have such absurd mistakes.
Another theory involves a complicated plan involving notes delivered to Kit. These notes would be revised years later and then published. I must agree that this theory is very intelligent and that makes a lot of sense. But for it to work, you have to believe that Lemony in revising his work failed to remove secret messages to Kit. In addition, this theory does not explain how Lemony could know about dialogues and events experienced only by the Baudelaire siblings. The 'Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio From Brazil' presents an alternative theory, which some may believe to be better, (or not).
First, so that I do not contradict myself, I must show that in books other than the 13 books of ASOUE or in the letters to the editor, there is evidence that years have actually passed between the events recorded in the 13 books and their publication.
One important note: I believe that all UA chapters are true. I do not believe that the initial 12 chapters deal with a long, frosty introduction. That's because the "13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew about Lemony Snicket" pamphlet states that UA is a safe source of research. I explained in my previous text because I believe that this pamphlet is Daniel Handler's text on ASOUE which for me has more credibility.
I am aware of what is written between chapters 12 and 13 of the UA. "There was a long pause, and I realized this curious stranger was at last done telling this confusing and unnerving story. Without another word the storyteller handed me this packet of material, which I give you now. ' However, these phrases do not make sense. First, what we find in the first 12 chapters is not a storytelling, and so there is no storyteller. There is a storyteller only in the UA introduction. In my theory, these phrases are an attempt to drive away from the interest in the book those people who read the introduction of a book, and then go on to the last pages. Such a reader, after reading the introduction of the UA, would go to the last pages, and then find the index, some photos and finally these sentences. He may have lost interest in reading the documents in the UA, believing it would be a boring read.
So in UA in Chapter 4, we find a letter from Sally Sebald to Lemony Snicket. In this letter she stated:
"What a relief it was to learn that you are alive and that Dr. Orwell is dead! For YARS I suspected the opposite, and assumed that one of yours siblings was handling your affairs, as I am handling Gustav's ... I hope that The crucial scene in Zombies in the Snow - beginning and ending, as always with the Sebald Code, with the ringing of the bell - was meant to deliver a message concerning the survivor mentioned in your letter, but my brother told me no more than this. "
You may deduce that this letter was written by Sally Sebald after the events described in TMM, that is, after the death of Georgina Orwell. For years, Sally Sebald believed that Lemony was dead, and Georgina was alive. The reference to 'years' in the plural makes me believe that really years have passed between the events described in TMM and this letter. It is interesting to note that when this letter was written, Lemony had already begun work on writing the Baudelaire case, but evidently Lemony was in the research phase on the subject. In addition, it is possible to deduce that in a previous letter, letter that we do not have access, Lemony informed that he was alive and requested information to Sally Sebald. It seems reasonable to believe that when Lemony wrote the first letter to Sally Sebald, he did not yet have the script of zombies in the snow at hand, for Sally found it necessary to describe the scene in which there was a Sebald code. In some later letter, Sally evidently sent the script of zombies in the snow to Lemony. In the letter Lemony sent to Dear Dairy in the same chapter, Lemony said:
"Remember, you are my second-to-last hope that the Baudelaire's ornaments may finally be told to the general public."
In this letter Lemony stated that he had the script of Zombies in the Snow in his hands. He wanted to return the script to Sally Sebald, however, Sally Sebald did not attend the meeting. So Lemony decided to send the script to his cheesemaking friends. For some unknown reason, these friends of Lemony could not even publish one of the ASOUE books. So Lemony had to turn to his current editor, which was the last hope for him to finally be able to publish the ASOUE books.
When Lemony sent the manuscript of TRR to his current editor, Lemony also sent the Zombie Manuscript in the Snow, according to the letter to the editor found at the end of book 1. At the time he wrote the letter, Lemony stated who was in London to find out what happened to Unty Monty's collection of reptiles. Thus, this scenario seems to indicate that between the day Lemony sent the "Zombies in the Snow" script to cheesemakers and the time Lemony sent the same script to his current editor, there was a considerable time. Lemony needed to retrieve the script, then he traveled to London and then sent the script to the current editor. Apparently Lemony did not make a copy of the script, because in his letter to the cheese makers, Lemony says it would be too dangerous to keep the scripts in hand. Why would he then make a copy of the same scripts?
A scenario where several years pass between the events and the writing of the books, it combines with some statements of Lemony during the writing of ASOUE. These observations do not seem to be lies, for there seems to be no logical reason for Lemony to lie about them:
Chapter 8, book 2 - "You will remember, of course, that EVEN YEARS LATER, Klaus would lie awake in bed, filled with regret that he did not call out to the driver of thetaxicab who had brought Stephano into their lives once more . "
Book 5 Chapter 6: "Prufrock Preparatory School is now closed. It has been closed for many years."
However, after the publication of book 2 of ASOUE, Prufrock Preparatory School was still open, the Lemony Snicket went there to seek information after the publication of book 2, according to UA chapter 9. An enemy of Lemony also went to Prufrock Pre and found in the library there a copy of the TRR book that had already been published.
This means that the school stopped working between the publication of book 2 and the publication of book 5. After Prufrock Preparatory School was closed, Lemony spent many years without publishing in his universe. (In a later text I will explain this concept in more detail, in a theory I call "The Great Hiatus.")
Another detail can be found in Book 10 Chapter 13:
"Even for an author like myself, who has devoted his entire life to investigating the mysteries that surround the Baudelaire case, there is still much I have been unable to discover."
It is implied that the investigation into the mysteries of the Baudelaire affair has lasted a lifetime from Lemony's point of view, and not just a few years.
In the book Bad beginning the rare edition, Lemony says that he already knows about the Baudelaire siblings' third visit to briny beach, and that he wished to write about it in book 13 of ASOUE that he had not yet written.
The introduction of the notes in the book The Bad Beginning of the Rare Edition indicates that it has been since the publication of the Bad Beginning until the publication of Book 13.
So this whole scenario seems to match the fact that Lemony wrote and published his books years after the events recorded in them.
After these considerations, I will now explain what is the largest source of information found in ASOUE regarding Klaus, Sunny and Violet. In my theory the source of the information is the book called "The Series Of Unfortunately Events" that was on the island. I think Lemony, in his initial research on the Baudelaires, came to this island. There he found the book. Klaus, Sunny and Violet followed the custom of previous castaways and wrote about their own lives in that book. From the content of the book, Lemony was able to continue his research. As I said, Lemony said he already knew about events that took place on the island, and even events that occurred after the Baudelaires left the island before writing Book 13 in Lemony's universe. He planned to write about these events in Book 13. Note the following excerpts:
pp.116-117 A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century ...
Tomorrow afternoon, the semi-amateur geologist has promised to put me in touch with current members of the F.F.P. so I can determine if there is any truth to the rumor that Violet Baudelaire came into contact with her on her way to Briny Beach for the third time. Interested parties might turn to Book the Thirteenth, assuming I live to write such a book.
p.153 A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit.
Please see my article 116-117.
When Lemony wrote the notes, Lemony had not even written Book 13 yet. It is significant that in the introduction of his notes, Lemony again wrote that the publication of the ASOUE books in Lemony's universe took years.
"In the years since the book's publication, many people who have read the book have besieged me with questions concerning the iotas of the story, exactly how I came to know these iotas, and if I cared to add anything to my report."
It is interesting to note that Lemony's researches as described in the ASOUE books and as described in the TBB the Rare Edition notes are fact-finding surveys and are not searches of new fact discoveries. Look at these examples from The Rare Edition:
pp.41-42 From a street vendor, they purchased olives after tasting several varieties and choosing their favorites.
My commonplace book contains following interview:
LS: On the day in question, did three children-a fourteen-year-old girl, a boy a bit older than twelve who was wearing glasses, and a young baby with somewhat peculiar teeth-purchase from you some olives, after tasting several varieties and choosing their favorites?
Vendor: Yes.
p.142 No one seemed to notice that I held a walkie-talkie the entire time.
My commonplace book contains the following interview:
LS: On the night in question, during the performance of Funcoot's play The Marvelous Marriage, did you notice that Count Olaf, the production's start, was holding a walkie-talkie the entire time?
Audience member: No.
LS: How about you?
Another audience member: No.
LS: You?
Another audience member: No.
LS: You?
Another audience member: No.
etc.
(Note the following: if no one remembers having seen walkie-talkie, as Lemony knew there was a
walkie-talkie? For me the answer is: Lemony read about the walkie-talkie in the island book).
p.146 "But Violet is only a child!" one of the actors said. "She's not old enough to marry."
My commonplace book contains the following interview:
LS: On the night in question, did you say, "But Violet is only a child!" One of the actors said. "She's not old enough to marry."
Actor: I think so.
(Note that Lemony's questions are to confirm facts that he already had in advance.)
That's why Lemony knew about what happened in the Caravan because Lemony read about it in the book. So Lemony knew about the dialogues that took place in locked rooms, or that happened inside the elevator shaft, because Lemony read about it in the book. So Lemony knew about what the Baudelaires talked about when they were alone in Queequeg on the ocean floor because Lemony read about it in that book. The part of the book that told this whole story was written by the Baudelaires during the year they spent on the island. Thus, Lemony began writing ASOUE after the events that took place on the island.
Since before writing the first book, Lemony already knew of specific facts about the Baudelaires, which indicates that he has used the information from the island's book ever since he published Book 1. Thus, Kit had been dead since Book 1 was published . But almost nobody knew this, because she died on a distant island with few people observing her death. To me that's the only explanation that makes sense. As we have seen, Lemony would never invent dialogues and events about Sunny, Klaus, and Violet.
The only things that seem to contradict these conclusions are the following: Lemony's messages to his "sister" in books 9 and 10, the contents of the letter in book 10 which states that the Denouement hotel was fully operational when this letter was written, the statement in the same letter regarding a possible sugar bowl that Lemony is looking for during the writing of TSS, claim that Lemony could save his sister Kit while he was writing TGG, the letters to the editor at the end of book 11, which were written on paper coming from the Hotel Denouement indicating that this hotel was fully operational when these letters were written.
I will give the simple and brief explanation on these subjects according to the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil to be able to close this text, and in the future I will write other texts explaining in detail all these theories.
1 - The secret messages in books 9 and 10 do not have Kit as the true recipient. In fact they are letters to Beatrice. Lemony is lying in saying in his dedications and in his main text that Beatrice is dead. The reason Lemony decided to lie about it is his desire to protect Beatrice, the woman he loves. Beatrice faked her own death, and used her training as an actress to pretend to be other people. A few years after Kit's death, Beatrice went on to pretend to be Kit. Lemony, while writing the hidden messages to his "sister", was at the same time passing on important information to Beatrice and helping to cover up Beatrice's identity. By stating that the recipient is a sister, Lemony may be using one of the definitions of "brother" or "sister" found in THH:
"Sometimes brothers and sisters are just people who are united for a common cause."
2 - In TGG, where Lemony Snicket claims he can save his sister named Kit while Lemony is writing the book, Lemony is lying on purpose. He's doing it to protect Beatrice.
3 - Just as the Lost Arms Hotel was restored after a fire at ATWQ, the Denouement Hotel was also restored after the fire a few years later, probably over the years while books 1 through 9 of ASOUE were being published in Lemony's universe.
4 - The sugar bowl that Lemony claims is looking when writing the letter to his "sister" is not the same sugar bowl that belonged to Esmé. The sugar bowl quoted in the letter contained a proof capable of clearing Lemony. It was this sugar bowl that arrived through the crows at the Denouement Hotel and probably fell on the lake in front of the hotel, and stayed there until Lemony fetched it many years later. The esmé sugar bowl contained something capable of controlling the Great Unknown (probably a kind of whistle). Lemony apparently already has access to this sugar bowl when writing the 13 books of ASOUE. It was this sugar bowl that ended up in the Gorgonian Grotto after being released by the VFD's HQ window. This sugar bowl was removed from there by a woman before the arrival of Klaus, Sunny, Violet and Fiona in GG.
Thank you for reading until now, and until the next text of the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio From Brazil.
To understand this Thread, it is necessary to read my first thread in the link below.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35828/lemony-snickets-narration-culturally-different
It is a strange fact that for me to prove that Lemony is lying on purpose in some passages of his work in ASOUE, I have to first prove that he has seriously endeavored to write truths in most of his work. But the theory is called "the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil", so strange things will appear here. Strange, but fruits of reasoned ideas.
I believe the good liar is not that person who lies all the time. People like that lose credibility and stop fooling anyone, even when that is necessary. Good liars speak the truth most of the time, gain the confidence of others, and choose the moments of using lies with surgical precision. Good liars deceive people for generations, and I believe that Lemony is a good liar.
I will demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish what is true from what is false in ASOUE.
Apparently, there are no intentional lies about Sunny, Violet and Klaus told by Lemony Snicket in the 13 books of ASOUE. Lemony claims that his work on these children is the fruit of a promise. At ATWQ we realize that Lemony is someone who gives great value to keeping his promises. In addition, in a personal note found in the UA in chapter 1, Lemony Snicket wrote:
"It makes me sad to think that my whole life, from to cradle to the grave is full of errors, but at last that will not happen to the Baudelaires."
As I explained in my previous text, the documents found in the UA were not written for the Great Public in the universe of Lemony. The passage comes from a personal note, so logically Lemony would not lie to himself.
So, you can trust that the whole main story of ASOUE is true.
This phrase matches the reports Lemony Snicket wrote about his own research on the events involving Sunny, Klaus, and Violet. Lemony seems to seek physical evidence of the smallest details about the events surrounding Beatrice's three children.
Besides that, the letters to the editor were not written for Lemony's large audience, so these letters also have credibility.
Thus, if there are intentional lies in the 13 books of ASOUE they could only be found in the following excerpts:
1 - In the dedications.
2 - In the descriptions of the events involving the own Lemony Snicket and Beatrice.
3 - In the descriptions of situations that were occurring during the writing of books that did not directly involve the Baudelaire siblings.
4 - Description of events related to other minor characters that occurred at different moments of the main events narrated in the books.
Of course, just because Lemony might be lying in these snippets, that does not mean he's actually lying. I just want to point out that Daniel Handler made a point of highlighting in the UA that the story about Sunny, Klaus and Violet are true, and the result of Lemony Snicket's research, not the result of Lemony Snicket's imagination.
But that raises another question: How could Lemony Snicket know about events involving Sunny, Klaus, and Violet with so much detail? For example, in some scenes, Sunny, Klaus and Violet talk to each other on their own. How could he know the content of these conversations? In addition, some events would be impossible to deduce only through observation or interviews. For example, in book 10 of ASOUE, Lemony narrates events inside the caravan, however Lemony states that he could never find what was left of the caravan after trying to find it for several months. How could Lemony know about the parachute built by Violet? What about the sticky mix that Klaus created to slow down the caravan?
Or how could Lemony know about what the Baudelaires talked about while they were on their own at Queequeg?
Lemony would need to have a source of reliable information on these matters, and only source of reliable information would come from the Baudelaires themselves.
The answer of my theory to this question is based on the following premise: In writing the 13 books of ASOUE, Lemony Snicket was writing about a past many earlier. When I talked to Dante, I realized that this is a premise questioned by many fans in the United States. Dante explained to me that for many fans Lemony's references to the many years that have passed between the events and the publication of the ASOUE books are Daniel Handler's mistakes, or evidence that Daniel Handler changed his plans during writing of his books. I do not agree with this. Of course, maybe I'm wrong, and I do not want to accept that the books I love so much have such absurd mistakes.
Another theory involves a complicated plan involving notes delivered to Kit. These notes would be revised years later and then published. I must agree that this theory is very intelligent and that makes a lot of sense. But for it to work, you have to believe that Lemony in revising his work failed to remove secret messages to Kit. In addition, this theory does not explain how Lemony could know about dialogues and events experienced only by the Baudelaire siblings. The 'Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio From Brazil' presents an alternative theory, which some may believe to be better, (or not).
First, so that I do not contradict myself, I must show that in books other than the 13 books of ASOUE or in the letters to the editor, there is evidence that years have actually passed between the events recorded in the 13 books and their publication.
One important note: I believe that all UA chapters are true. I do not believe that the initial 12 chapters deal with a long, frosty introduction. That's because the "13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew about Lemony Snicket" pamphlet states that UA is a safe source of research. I explained in my previous text because I believe that this pamphlet is Daniel Handler's text on ASOUE which for me has more credibility.
I am aware of what is written between chapters 12 and 13 of the UA. "There was a long pause, and I realized this curious stranger was at last done telling this confusing and unnerving story. Without another word the storyteller handed me this packet of material, which I give you now. ' However, these phrases do not make sense. First, what we find in the first 12 chapters is not a storytelling, and so there is no storyteller. There is a storyteller only in the UA introduction. In my theory, these phrases are an attempt to drive away from the interest in the book those people who read the introduction of a book, and then go on to the last pages. Such a reader, after reading the introduction of the UA, would go to the last pages, and then find the index, some photos and finally these sentences. He may have lost interest in reading the documents in the UA, believing it would be a boring read.
So in UA in Chapter 4, we find a letter from Sally Sebald to Lemony Snicket. In this letter she stated:
"What a relief it was to learn that you are alive and that Dr. Orwell is dead! For YARS I suspected the opposite, and assumed that one of yours siblings was handling your affairs, as I am handling Gustav's ... I hope that The crucial scene in Zombies in the Snow - beginning and ending, as always with the Sebald Code, with the ringing of the bell - was meant to deliver a message concerning the survivor mentioned in your letter, but my brother told me no more than this. "
You may deduce that this letter was written by Sally Sebald after the events described in TMM, that is, after the death of Georgina Orwell. For years, Sally Sebald believed that Lemony was dead, and Georgina was alive. The reference to 'years' in the plural makes me believe that really years have passed between the events described in TMM and this letter. It is interesting to note that when this letter was written, Lemony had already begun work on writing the Baudelaire case, but evidently Lemony was in the research phase on the subject. In addition, it is possible to deduce that in a previous letter, letter that we do not have access, Lemony informed that he was alive and requested information to Sally Sebald. It seems reasonable to believe that when Lemony wrote the first letter to Sally Sebald, he did not yet have the script of zombies in the snow at hand, for Sally found it necessary to describe the scene in which there was a Sebald code. In some later letter, Sally evidently sent the script of zombies in the snow to Lemony. In the letter Lemony sent to Dear Dairy in the same chapter, Lemony said:
"Remember, you are my second-to-last hope that the Baudelaire's ornaments may finally be told to the general public."
In this letter Lemony stated that he had the script of Zombies in the Snow in his hands. He wanted to return the script to Sally Sebald, however, Sally Sebald did not attend the meeting. So Lemony decided to send the script to his cheesemaking friends. For some unknown reason, these friends of Lemony could not even publish one of the ASOUE books. So Lemony had to turn to his current editor, which was the last hope for him to finally be able to publish the ASOUE books.
When Lemony sent the manuscript of TRR to his current editor, Lemony also sent the Zombie Manuscript in the Snow, according to the letter to the editor found at the end of book 1. At the time he wrote the letter, Lemony stated who was in London to find out what happened to Unty Monty's collection of reptiles. Thus, this scenario seems to indicate that between the day Lemony sent the "Zombies in the Snow" script to cheesemakers and the time Lemony sent the same script to his current editor, there was a considerable time. Lemony needed to retrieve the script, then he traveled to London and then sent the script to the current editor. Apparently Lemony did not make a copy of the script, because in his letter to the cheese makers, Lemony says it would be too dangerous to keep the scripts in hand. Why would he then make a copy of the same scripts?
A scenario where several years pass between the events and the writing of the books, it combines with some statements of Lemony during the writing of ASOUE. These observations do not seem to be lies, for there seems to be no logical reason for Lemony to lie about them:
Chapter 8, book 2 - "You will remember, of course, that EVEN YEARS LATER, Klaus would lie awake in bed, filled with regret that he did not call out to the driver of thetaxicab who had brought Stephano into their lives once more . "
Book 5 Chapter 6: "Prufrock Preparatory School is now closed. It has been closed for many years."
However, after the publication of book 2 of ASOUE, Prufrock Preparatory School was still open, the Lemony Snicket went there to seek information after the publication of book 2, according to UA chapter 9. An enemy of Lemony also went to Prufrock Pre and found in the library there a copy of the TRR book that had already been published.
This means that the school stopped working between the publication of book 2 and the publication of book 5. After Prufrock Preparatory School was closed, Lemony spent many years without publishing in his universe. (In a later text I will explain this concept in more detail, in a theory I call "The Great Hiatus.")
Another detail can be found in Book 10 Chapter 13:
"Even for an author like myself, who has devoted his entire life to investigating the mysteries that surround the Baudelaire case, there is still much I have been unable to discover."
It is implied that the investigation into the mysteries of the Baudelaire affair has lasted a lifetime from Lemony's point of view, and not just a few years.
In the book Bad beginning the rare edition, Lemony says that he already knows about the Baudelaire siblings' third visit to briny beach, and that he wished to write about it in book 13 of ASOUE that he had not yet written.
The introduction of the notes in the book The Bad Beginning of the Rare Edition indicates that it has been since the publication of the Bad Beginning until the publication of Book 13.
So this whole scenario seems to match the fact that Lemony wrote and published his books years after the events recorded in them.
After these considerations, I will now explain what is the largest source of information found in ASOUE regarding Klaus, Sunny and Violet. In my theory the source of the information is the book called "The Series Of Unfortunately Events" that was on the island. I think Lemony, in his initial research on the Baudelaires, came to this island. There he found the book. Klaus, Sunny and Violet followed the custom of previous castaways and wrote about their own lives in that book. From the content of the book, Lemony was able to continue his research. As I said, Lemony said he already knew about events that took place on the island, and even events that occurred after the Baudelaires left the island before writing Book 13 in Lemony's universe. He planned to write about these events in Book 13. Note the following excerpts:
pp.116-117 A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century ...
Tomorrow afternoon, the semi-amateur geologist has promised to put me in touch with current members of the F.F.P. so I can determine if there is any truth to the rumor that Violet Baudelaire came into contact with her on her way to Briny Beach for the third time. Interested parties might turn to Book the Thirteenth, assuming I live to write such a book.
p.153 A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit.
Please see my article 116-117.
When Lemony wrote the notes, Lemony had not even written Book 13 yet. It is significant that in the introduction of his notes, Lemony again wrote that the publication of the ASOUE books in Lemony's universe took years.
"In the years since the book's publication, many people who have read the book have besieged me with questions concerning the iotas of the story, exactly how I came to know these iotas, and if I cared to add anything to my report."
It is interesting to note that Lemony's researches as described in the ASOUE books and as described in the TBB the Rare Edition notes are fact-finding surveys and are not searches of new fact discoveries. Look at these examples from The Rare Edition:
pp.41-42 From a street vendor, they purchased olives after tasting several varieties and choosing their favorites.
My commonplace book contains following interview:
LS: On the day in question, did three children-a fourteen-year-old girl, a boy a bit older than twelve who was wearing glasses, and a young baby with somewhat peculiar teeth-purchase from you some olives, after tasting several varieties and choosing their favorites?
Vendor: Yes.
p.142 No one seemed to notice that I held a walkie-talkie the entire time.
My commonplace book contains the following interview:
LS: On the night in question, during the performance of Funcoot's play The Marvelous Marriage, did you notice that Count Olaf, the production's start, was holding a walkie-talkie the entire time?
Audience member: No.
LS: How about you?
Another audience member: No.
LS: You?
Another audience member: No.
LS: You?
Another audience member: No.
etc.
(Note the following: if no one remembers having seen walkie-talkie, as Lemony knew there was a
walkie-talkie? For me the answer is: Lemony read about the walkie-talkie in the island book).
p.146 "But Violet is only a child!" one of the actors said. "She's not old enough to marry."
My commonplace book contains the following interview:
LS: On the night in question, did you say, "But Violet is only a child!" One of the actors said. "She's not old enough to marry."
Actor: I think so.
(Note that Lemony's questions are to confirm facts that he already had in advance.)
That's why Lemony knew about what happened in the Caravan because Lemony read about it in the book. So Lemony knew about the dialogues that took place in locked rooms, or that happened inside the elevator shaft, because Lemony read about it in the book. So Lemony knew about what the Baudelaires talked about when they were alone in Queequeg on the ocean floor because Lemony read about it in that book. The part of the book that told this whole story was written by the Baudelaires during the year they spent on the island. Thus, Lemony began writing ASOUE after the events that took place on the island.
Since before writing the first book, Lemony already knew of specific facts about the Baudelaires, which indicates that he has used the information from the island's book ever since he published Book 1. Thus, Kit had been dead since Book 1 was published . But almost nobody knew this, because she died on a distant island with few people observing her death. To me that's the only explanation that makes sense. As we have seen, Lemony would never invent dialogues and events about Sunny, Klaus, and Violet.
The only things that seem to contradict these conclusions are the following: Lemony's messages to his "sister" in books 9 and 10, the contents of the letter in book 10 which states that the Denouement hotel was fully operational when this letter was written, the statement in the same letter regarding a possible sugar bowl that Lemony is looking for during the writing of TSS, claim that Lemony could save his sister Kit while he was writing TGG, the letters to the editor at the end of book 11, which were written on paper coming from the Hotel Denouement indicating that this hotel was fully operational when these letters were written.
I will give the simple and brief explanation on these subjects according to the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil to be able to close this text, and in the future I will write other texts explaining in detail all these theories.
1 - The secret messages in books 9 and 10 do not have Kit as the true recipient. In fact they are letters to Beatrice. Lemony is lying in saying in his dedications and in his main text that Beatrice is dead. The reason Lemony decided to lie about it is his desire to protect Beatrice, the woman he loves. Beatrice faked her own death, and used her training as an actress to pretend to be other people. A few years after Kit's death, Beatrice went on to pretend to be Kit. Lemony, while writing the hidden messages to his "sister", was at the same time passing on important information to Beatrice and helping to cover up Beatrice's identity. By stating that the recipient is a sister, Lemony may be using one of the definitions of "brother" or "sister" found in THH:
"Sometimes brothers and sisters are just people who are united for a common cause."
2 - In TGG, where Lemony Snicket claims he can save his sister named Kit while Lemony is writing the book, Lemony is lying on purpose. He's doing it to protect Beatrice.
3 - Just as the Lost Arms Hotel was restored after a fire at ATWQ, the Denouement Hotel was also restored after the fire a few years later, probably over the years while books 1 through 9 of ASOUE were being published in Lemony's universe.
4 - The sugar bowl that Lemony claims is looking when writing the letter to his "sister" is not the same sugar bowl that belonged to Esmé. The sugar bowl quoted in the letter contained a proof capable of clearing Lemony. It was this sugar bowl that arrived through the crows at the Denouement Hotel and probably fell on the lake in front of the hotel, and stayed there until Lemony fetched it many years later. The esmé sugar bowl contained something capable of controlling the Great Unknown (probably a kind of whistle). Lemony apparently already has access to this sugar bowl when writing the 13 books of ASOUE. It was this sugar bowl that ended up in the Gorgonian Grotto after being released by the VFD's HQ window. This sugar bowl was removed from there by a woman before the arrival of Klaus, Sunny, Violet and Fiona in GG.
Thank you for reading until now, and until the next text of the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio From Brazil.
