Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 17, 2019 11:52:39 GMT -5
This is part 12 of the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil
To understand this text, it is necessary to read some of my previous texts.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35862/beatrice-letters-theory
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35882/snicket-file-inquiry
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35855/final-theory-sugar-bowl
Hypotheses are based on circumstantial evidence. Being an ASOUE theorist involves “testing” various hypotheses, performing mental experiments, and verifying whether the hypothesis is valid or not. Hypotheses that can be denied are not valid, and should be discarded. Hypotheses that can not be denied are taken advantage of. And the hypotheses that fit the personality of the author, and that solve mysteries in a coherent way, and that even allow to solve other mysteries, pass to the status of theory. When dealing with a text that contains an unreliable narrator like Lemony, testing hypotheses is a great challenge. But as I showed in my first and second text, Lemony is a partially unreliable narrator. He promised himself not to tell lies about the events surrounding the Baudelaire siblings. But at the same time he must avoid telling the Public that Beatrice survived the burning of her house. Thus, to protect Beatrice’s life, Lemony resorts to lies and cheating within his own 13 books, as long as this does not violate the promise he made that he will record the history of the Baudelaire siblings accurately.
So, given the theory I created, I can say that I also created a hypothesis that had been disregarded by most fans. I am almost to promote this hypothesis at the level of theory, but perhaps some adjustments are necessary. So, briefly, I can say that my hypothesis is that JS is Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket after the death of Jacques Sincket. I think this is Beatrice’s recurring way of acting: she likes to pretend to be the siblings of Lemony who die. Of course, I did not imagine it out of the blue. There’s a reason for me to find this, and I’ll explain now. I will first explain my whole hypothesis, and then I will show the evidence.
First, Kit herself believed that J. S. was an impostor, that is, someone pretending to be her brother.
TPP chapter 2:
“At last she held up a tiny piece of paper, no bigger than a caterpillar, which was rolled into a tiny scroll. “Here it is,” she said. “A waiter slipped this to me last night by hiding it inside a cookie.” She handed it to Klaus, who unrolled the paper and squinted at it behind his glasses. “‘J. S. has checked in,’” he read out loud, “'and requested tea with sugar. My brother sends his regards. Sincerely, Frank.’” “Usually the messages inside the cookies are just superstitious nonsense,” Kit said, “but recently the restaurant has changed management. You can understand why this message made me so distraught, Baudelaires. Someone is posing as my brother, and has checked into the hotel shortly before our entire organization is scheduled to arrive.”
In the same passage we observe that J. S. asked for sugar when he arrived at the hotel. Of course this was a code. If you’ve read my theory about sugar bowls, you know that I believe a short woman got one of the sugar bowls in GG. Imagine the following hypothesis: this woman is the person who is going by J. S. This woman went to the HQ of VFD, received the message in the refrigerator. Captain Windershins sent a telegram to her informing her that the sugar bowl was in GG, after Klaus found out. She went to AA, went down the tunnels, picked up the sugar bowl at GG, went to Queequeg, persuaded Windershins and Bill to abandon the submarine, used the Great Unknown to chase away Olaf, and then used the Great Unknown to quickly get to the hotel, has registered as JS.
She hid the sugar bowl somewhere with water. She then ordered tea with sugar, informing the allies that she already had one of the sugar bowls in her hands. These allies were members of the secret organization within the secret organization created by Lemony. When she asked for sugar, the waiters searched her ankles. They did not find any tattoos.
(I believe that Beatrice does not have a tattoo because her children had never seen anything like it before contacting Count Olaf.) Chapter 7 of TPP shows what treatment was given to anyone who asked for sugar:
“ in the coffee shop, located in Room 178, a villain requested sugar in his coffee, was immediately thrown to the floor so a waitress could see if he had a tattoo on his ankle, and then received an apology and a free slice of rhubarb pie for all his trouble.”
The waiters believed that all the supporters of the incendiary side of Schism had entered VFD before Schism itself, so everyone should have ankle tattoos. Of course they were wrong. Esmé did not have a tattoo because she participated in Olaf’s Schism, years after the Great VFD Schism, then she had no tattoo. Esmé entered VFD after the Great Schism. Similarly, the woman who was going through J.S. also did not have a tattoo because she entered VFD after the Great Schism.
(chapter 12 The UA: 3. Do I Have to get a Tatto? - No anymore. Since the schism, we have realized that it is not wise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol change at any moment.)
The woman then received a telegram from Quigley. The telegram informed through a complex code that Baudelaire siblings would meet someone in a taxi on Briny Beach to accomplish a mission, and then she deduced that there was someone who would bring the Baudelaire siblings to the hotel. What “J.S.” did? She sent a telegram to Mr. Poe. She did not want the Baudelaire siblings to go to the hotel. She asked Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire Siblings. Why she did it?
For me, the answer is: Because J. S. was Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket. She did not want her children to face the Deadly Dangers that would exist in the hotel.
Finally, Beatrice was taken from the hotel in the trunk of a taxi. She handed the sugar bowl to the mysterious taxi driver.
Anyway, as I explained in the Sugar Bowls theory, Beatrice was taken to the beach, where she invoked the Great Unknown using the whistle (which was the contents of the sugar bowl), and went to save the Quagmires and the others. She probably wanted to save her own children too, but she should not have known where their children were. When Beatrice went to save the Quagmires one of them shouted for the name "Violet" because he saw Beatrice inside the beast’s mouth and thought she was Violet.
Now see some evidence about JS being Beatrice in disguise:
TGG chapter 12:
“A Volunteer Factual Dispatch,” Klaus finished. Violet nodded, and scanned the paper quickly. Sure enough, the words “Volunteer Factual Dispatch ” were printed on the top, and as more and more of the paper appeared, the eldest Baudelaire saw that it was addressed “To the Queequeg,” with the date printed below, as well as the name of the person who was sending the telegram, miles and miles away on dry land…
“It’s from Quigley Quagmire,” she said quietly. Klaus’s eyes widened in astonishment. “What does he say?” he asked.
“ 'It is my understanding that you have three additional volunteers on board… 'We are in desperate need of their services for a most urgent matter… Please deliver them Tuesday to the location indicated in the rhymes below.”
She scanned the paper and frowned thoughtfully. "Then there are two poems,” she said. “One by Lewis Carroll and the other by T. S. Eliot.”
“Verse Fluctuation Declaration,” he said….
“There’s nothing else in the telegram?” “Only a few letters at the very bottom,” she said. “ 'CC: J.S.’ What does that mean?” “ 'CC’ means that Quigley sent a copy of this message to someone else,” Klaus said, “and 'J.S.’ are the initials of the person.” “Those mysterious initials again,” Violet said. “It can’t be Jacques Snicket, because he’s dead. But who else could it be?"… Klaus closed the book and looked up at his sisters. "Quigley wants us to meet him tomorrow,” he said, “at Briny Beach.”
Chapter 13
“The missing words,” Violet said to her siblings, as if the coughing banker had not spoken, “are 'violet,’ 'taxi,’ and 'waiting.’
These excerpts above show that Quigley sent the message to Queequeg and sent a copy of the same message to J.S.
Chapter 13
“"Gack!” Sunny said, which meant “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!” and the Baudclaires watched as a familiar shape stopped in front of them, took off a tall top hat, and coughed into a white handkerchief… “Baudelaires!” Mr. Poe said, when he was done coughing. “Egad! I can’t believe it! I can’t believe you’re here!” “You?” Klaus asked, gazing at the banker in astonishment. “You’re the one we’re supposed to meet?” “I guess so,” Mr. Poe said, frowning and taking a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket. “I received a message saying that you’d be here at Briny Beach today.”
"Who sent the message?” Klaus asked…
“The message is signed J.S.,” Mr. Poe said… “You’d better come with me – my car’s parked nearby. You have a great deal of explaining to do.“
No,” Violet said. “No?” Mr. Poe said in amazement, and coughed violently into his handkerchief. “Of course you do! You’ve been missing for a very long time, children! It was very inconsiderate of you to run away without telling me where you were, particularly when you’ve been accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and some assorted misdemeanors! We’re going to get right in my car, and I’ll drive you to the police station, and –” “No,…”
This passage above shows that JS sent Mr. Poe a message asking him to go and meet the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. It is unlikely that this message was intercepted by an enemy, decoded, and then that enemy would have passed through J.S. and then sent a message to Mr. Poe. Enemies on the noble side do not like books, and that’s why creating a code involving books is so safe. Also, it is unlikely that the enemies had exactly the books they needed to decode the message. That means that the person who was going through J.S. was not a villain. He was a member of the “noble” side of VFD. And this member of the noble side did not want the Baudelaire siblings to be taken to the hotel. The only members of the noble side who did not want the Baudelaire siblings to become involved with VFD were the Baudelaire siblings’ own parents. This is evidence that J. S. was actually Beatrice, who did not want her children to be taken to the hotel. Beatrice knew the dangers in the hotel would be deadly.
Worst mother she’s proving to be because of my theories, she did not want her children to die.
TPP chapter 8:
"I’m so happy to find you,“ said the judge, taking off her Vision Furthering Device so she could dab at her eyes and embrace the children one by one. "I was afraid I’d never see you again. I’ll never forgive myself for letting that idiotic banker take you away from me.”
This passage above shows that Justice Strauss would never ask Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. So it is not the true J. S.
TPP chapter 8:
“I’m sorry, too,” Jerome said. “As soon as I heard about all the troubles that befell you in the Village of Fowl Devotees, I began my own Baudelaire search. Volunteers were leaving me messages everywhere-at least, I thought the messages were addressed to me.” “And I thought they were addressed to me ,” Justice Strauss said. “There are certainly plenty of people with the initials J. S.” “I began to feel like an impostor,” Jerome said.
This excerpt shows that Justice Strauss and Jerome found it very strange to have messages for JS. Jerome even felt like an impostor. They evidently do not know many secrets of VFD, and were not the recipients of the message in the refrigerator, nor of Quigley ’s message.
Other evidence: In TPP there is a picture and a passage showing that female VFD members can disguise themselves as VFD members of the male gender. The engraving is in ALSO NOT CHAPTER. The picture shows a woman who was disguised as a man. About this, Lemony wrote in TPP chapter 7:
“In the basement, a strange sight housekeepers removed a disguise, and drilled a hole behind an ornamental vase in order to examine the cables that held one of the elevators in place, while listening to the faint sound of a very annoying song coming from a room just above her.”
The engraving shows that the woman’s disguise involves a false mustache, a type of barrel decorated with eyes, a top hat and a suit. This is evidence that Beatrice could disguise herself as a man easily. This is evidence that Beatrice could also disguise herself as a man easily.
It’s interesting what Esmé said about J.S. when she talked to Geraldine Julienne.
TPP chapter 4:
“I reveal my special hors d'oeuvres for Thursday’s cocktail party, I want you to tell me something about a certain guest at this hotel. He's been lurking around the basement, plotting to spoil our party. His initials are J. S.”
This is evidence that Esmé did not know who JS was. This shows that JS was on the noble side of Schism.
Also interesting is what Charles said about JS in TPP chapter 5:
(Sir): “You’re the one who said enemies might be lurking in this hotel!”
“That’s what I was told in the letter I received,” Charles said. “According to J. S., we must be very cautious if we want to find the Baudelaires.”
“… Perhaps I can ask one of the concierges for a pair of binoculars. J. S. said they might be arriving by submarine, so I could watch for a periscope rising from the sea.”
This is evidence that J. S. was someone on the “noble” side of VFD because he warned Charles about the dangers. In addition, J.S. warned Charles that the Baudelaire siblings would be arriving by submarine. This shows that JS knew about Queequeg.
TPP chapter 5:
I care about you, Sir. And I care about the Baudelaires. If what J. S. wrote is true, then their parents-“
That is other evidence. J.S. wrote to Charles in a letter some secret about the parents of the Baudelaires siblings. This time, the person who must have written to Charles was Jacques Snicket himself. This letter in which Jacques wrote to Charles about the Baudelaires’ parents must have been sent to him before the death of Jacques Snicket. In TVV, when Jacques Snicket tried to talk to the Baudelaire siblings, he almost told a secret about their parents.
TVV chapter 6:
(Jacques Snicket:) Please listen to me, I beg of you! I’m not Count Olaf! My name is Jacques!” He turned to the three siblings, who could see he had tears in his eyes. “Oh, Baudelaires,” he said, “I am so relieved to see that you are alive. Your parents — ”
“That's enough out of you," Officer Luciana said, clasping her white-gloved hand over Jacques’s mouth.
I believe Jacques would tell the Baudelaire siblings that one of their parents was alive.
TPP Chpater 6:
Chapter 6:
"I have news from J. S.” - either Frank or Ernest was whispering to Hal.
“J. S.?“ Hal said. "She’s here?” “She’s here to help," the manager corrected. "She's been using her Vision Furthering Device to watch the skies, and I’m afraid she reports that we will all be eating crow.”
“I’m sorry to hear that," Hal said. "Crow is a tough bird to cook, because the meat is very muscular from all the carrying that crows do.”
“It is a shame,“ agreed either Frank or Ernest. "If only there was something that could make the dish a little sweeter. I’ve heard that certain mushrooms are available.” “Sugar would be better than mushrooms,” Hal said unfathomably.
“According to our calculations, the sugar will be laundered sometime after nightfall,” replied the manager, equally unfathomably.
“I’m glad," Hal said. "My job's been difficult enough. Do you know how many leaves of lettuce I’ve had to send up to the roof?”
For some reason, Hal was apparently working with Esmé. He was sending lettuce leaves to her clothes. Lemony had said in THH that he had to search for several months if Hal, at the time he worked at the hospital, was or was not a spy. The question is, why did Lemony have this doubt? Because evidently, at the time of events recorded in TPP, Hal was already a spy on the incendiary side. Dewey knew this, so he passed on false information to Hal. It was in this way that Olaf received insider information about what was apparently to happen at the hotel. That’s why the information Dewey passed to Hal about JS was not true. JS was not there to help the incendiary side. But the interesting thing is that Hal believed she was there to help the incendiary side. Hal acted as if he already knew JS. This is evidence that JS was acting as a double agent. Beatrice was pretending to support the incendiary side by disguising herself as a woman named JS. But evidently she had only communicated with people who did not know her personally. So Olaf and Esmé were not contacted by her.
The passage also points to how Dewey passed the false information to Olaf’s supporters as to where the sugar bowl would fall. Olaf’s supporters believed that the sugar bowl containing the whistle to control the Great Unknown would come by the crows. Hal was saying that he thought it would be better to have a giant beast attack than exposure to a deadly fungus.
That’s what I have as evidence. But that raises an interesting question.
Did the first time Mr. Poe fetched the Baudelaire Siblings at Briny Beach, he also received a message from Beatrice about where they were?
After all, how did Mr. Poe know exactly where the Baudelaire siblings were on the day of the fire? Who warned him? How did he get there so fast?
According to the UA, chapter 11, Lemony also knew about the possibility of one or more survivors in the Baudelaire mansion fire. How could he know that?
Also, exists in the bad beginning the rare edition, there is a very interesting note:
p.2 The three Baudelaire children lived with their parents in an enormous mansion at the heart of a dirty and busy city, and occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley-the word “rickety”, you probably know, here means “unsteady” or “likely to collapse”-alone to the seashore…
On that particular occasion, the Baudelaire parents not only gave their children permission but encouraged them to leave the house, as the adults had some pressing business to atten to. This business was delayed indefinitely due to death.
Why had Beatrice and Bertrand insisted so much that their children left home exactly that day? What did not their parents want them to see happen? Why did Bertrand die and Beatrice survived? Why did Beatrice have so much fun killing Count Olaf’s father or parents? And why did R. claim that Beatrice was not a person to look for lost goods?
And why is not Lemony who you think he is? What dark secrets are hidden in TBL? What is “the End”? Why is Lemony finished? The next text will answer these questions through my other hypothesis.
To understand this text, it is necessary to read some of my previous texts.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35862/beatrice-letters-theory
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35882/snicket-file-inquiry
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35855/final-theory-sugar-bowl
Hypotheses are based on circumstantial evidence. Being an ASOUE theorist involves “testing” various hypotheses, performing mental experiments, and verifying whether the hypothesis is valid or not. Hypotheses that can be denied are not valid, and should be discarded. Hypotheses that can not be denied are taken advantage of. And the hypotheses that fit the personality of the author, and that solve mysteries in a coherent way, and that even allow to solve other mysteries, pass to the status of theory. When dealing with a text that contains an unreliable narrator like Lemony, testing hypotheses is a great challenge. But as I showed in my first and second text, Lemony is a partially unreliable narrator. He promised himself not to tell lies about the events surrounding the Baudelaire siblings. But at the same time he must avoid telling the Public that Beatrice survived the burning of her house. Thus, to protect Beatrice’s life, Lemony resorts to lies and cheating within his own 13 books, as long as this does not violate the promise he made that he will record the history of the Baudelaire siblings accurately.
So, given the theory I created, I can say that I also created a hypothesis that had been disregarded by most fans. I am almost to promote this hypothesis at the level of theory, but perhaps some adjustments are necessary. So, briefly, I can say that my hypothesis is that JS is Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket after the death of Jacques Sincket. I think this is Beatrice’s recurring way of acting: she likes to pretend to be the siblings of Lemony who die. Of course, I did not imagine it out of the blue. There’s a reason for me to find this, and I’ll explain now. I will first explain my whole hypothesis, and then I will show the evidence.
First, Kit herself believed that J. S. was an impostor, that is, someone pretending to be her brother.
TPP chapter 2:
“At last she held up a tiny piece of paper, no bigger than a caterpillar, which was rolled into a tiny scroll. “Here it is,” she said. “A waiter slipped this to me last night by hiding it inside a cookie.” She handed it to Klaus, who unrolled the paper and squinted at it behind his glasses. “‘J. S. has checked in,’” he read out loud, “'and requested tea with sugar. My brother sends his regards. Sincerely, Frank.’” “Usually the messages inside the cookies are just superstitious nonsense,” Kit said, “but recently the restaurant has changed management. You can understand why this message made me so distraught, Baudelaires. Someone is posing as my brother, and has checked into the hotel shortly before our entire organization is scheduled to arrive.”
In the same passage we observe that J. S. asked for sugar when he arrived at the hotel. Of course this was a code. If you’ve read my theory about sugar bowls, you know that I believe a short woman got one of the sugar bowls in GG. Imagine the following hypothesis: this woman is the person who is going by J. S. This woman went to the HQ of VFD, received the message in the refrigerator. Captain Windershins sent a telegram to her informing her that the sugar bowl was in GG, after Klaus found out. She went to AA, went down the tunnels, picked up the sugar bowl at GG, went to Queequeg, persuaded Windershins and Bill to abandon the submarine, used the Great Unknown to chase away Olaf, and then used the Great Unknown to quickly get to the hotel, has registered as JS.
She hid the sugar bowl somewhere with water. She then ordered tea with sugar, informing the allies that she already had one of the sugar bowls in her hands. These allies were members of the secret organization within the secret organization created by Lemony. When she asked for sugar, the waiters searched her ankles. They did not find any tattoos.
(I believe that Beatrice does not have a tattoo because her children had never seen anything like it before contacting Count Olaf.) Chapter 7 of TPP shows what treatment was given to anyone who asked for sugar:
“ in the coffee shop, located in Room 178, a villain requested sugar in his coffee, was immediately thrown to the floor so a waitress could see if he had a tattoo on his ankle, and then received an apology and a free slice of rhubarb pie for all his trouble.”
The waiters believed that all the supporters of the incendiary side of Schism had entered VFD before Schism itself, so everyone should have ankle tattoos. Of course they were wrong. Esmé did not have a tattoo because she participated in Olaf’s Schism, years after the Great VFD Schism, then she had no tattoo. Esmé entered VFD after the Great Schism. Similarly, the woman who was going through J.S. also did not have a tattoo because she entered VFD after the Great Schism.
(chapter 12 The UA: 3. Do I Have to get a Tatto? - No anymore. Since the schism, we have realized that it is not wise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol change at any moment.)
The woman then received a telegram from Quigley. The telegram informed through a complex code that Baudelaire siblings would meet someone in a taxi on Briny Beach to accomplish a mission, and then she deduced that there was someone who would bring the Baudelaire siblings to the hotel. What “J.S.” did? She sent a telegram to Mr. Poe. She did not want the Baudelaire siblings to go to the hotel. She asked Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire Siblings. Why she did it?
For me, the answer is: Because J. S. was Beatrice pretending to be Jacques Snicket. She did not want her children to face the Deadly Dangers that would exist in the hotel.
Finally, Beatrice was taken from the hotel in the trunk of a taxi. She handed the sugar bowl to the mysterious taxi driver.
Anyway, as I explained in the Sugar Bowls theory, Beatrice was taken to the beach, where she invoked the Great Unknown using the whistle (which was the contents of the sugar bowl), and went to save the Quagmires and the others. She probably wanted to save her own children too, but she should not have known where their children were. When Beatrice went to save the Quagmires one of them shouted for the name "Violet" because he saw Beatrice inside the beast’s mouth and thought she was Violet.
Now see some evidence about JS being Beatrice in disguise:
TGG chapter 12:
“A Volunteer Factual Dispatch,” Klaus finished. Violet nodded, and scanned the paper quickly. Sure enough, the words “Volunteer Factual Dispatch ” were printed on the top, and as more and more of the paper appeared, the eldest Baudelaire saw that it was addressed “To the Queequeg,” with the date printed below, as well as the name of the person who was sending the telegram, miles and miles away on dry land…
“It’s from Quigley Quagmire,” she said quietly. Klaus’s eyes widened in astonishment. “What does he say?” he asked.
“ 'It is my understanding that you have three additional volunteers on board… 'We are in desperate need of their services for a most urgent matter… Please deliver them Tuesday to the location indicated in the rhymes below.”
She scanned the paper and frowned thoughtfully. "Then there are two poems,” she said. “One by Lewis Carroll and the other by T. S. Eliot.”
“Verse Fluctuation Declaration,” he said….
“There’s nothing else in the telegram?” “Only a few letters at the very bottom,” she said. “ 'CC: J.S.’ What does that mean?” “ 'CC’ means that Quigley sent a copy of this message to someone else,” Klaus said, “and 'J.S.’ are the initials of the person.” “Those mysterious initials again,” Violet said. “It can’t be Jacques Snicket, because he’s dead. But who else could it be?"… Klaus closed the book and looked up at his sisters. "Quigley wants us to meet him tomorrow,” he said, “at Briny Beach.”
Chapter 13
“The missing words,” Violet said to her siblings, as if the coughing banker had not spoken, “are 'violet,’ 'taxi,’ and 'waiting.’
These excerpts above show that Quigley sent the message to Queequeg and sent a copy of the same message to J.S.
Chapter 13
“"Gack!” Sunny said, which meant “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!” and the Baudclaires watched as a familiar shape stopped in front of them, took off a tall top hat, and coughed into a white handkerchief… “Baudelaires!” Mr. Poe said, when he was done coughing. “Egad! I can’t believe it! I can’t believe you’re here!” “You?” Klaus asked, gazing at the banker in astonishment. “You’re the one we’re supposed to meet?” “I guess so,” Mr. Poe said, frowning and taking a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket. “I received a message saying that you’d be here at Briny Beach today.”
"Who sent the message?” Klaus asked…
“The message is signed J.S.,” Mr. Poe said… “You’d better come with me – my car’s parked nearby. You have a great deal of explaining to do.“
No,” Violet said. “No?” Mr. Poe said in amazement, and coughed violently into his handkerchief. “Of course you do! You’ve been missing for a very long time, children! It was very inconsiderate of you to run away without telling me where you were, particularly when you’ve been accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and some assorted misdemeanors! We’re going to get right in my car, and I’ll drive you to the police station, and –” “No,…”
This passage above shows that JS sent Mr. Poe a message asking him to go and meet the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. It is unlikely that this message was intercepted by an enemy, decoded, and then that enemy would have passed through J.S. and then sent a message to Mr. Poe. Enemies on the noble side do not like books, and that’s why creating a code involving books is so safe. Also, it is unlikely that the enemies had exactly the books they needed to decode the message. That means that the person who was going through J.S. was not a villain. He was a member of the “noble” side of VFD. And this member of the noble side did not want the Baudelaire siblings to be taken to the hotel. The only members of the noble side who did not want the Baudelaire siblings to become involved with VFD were the Baudelaire siblings’ own parents. This is evidence that J. S. was actually Beatrice, who did not want her children to be taken to the hotel. Beatrice knew the dangers in the hotel would be deadly.
Worst mother she’s proving to be because of my theories, she did not want her children to die.
TPP chapter 8:
"I’m so happy to find you,“ said the judge, taking off her Vision Furthering Device so she could dab at her eyes and embrace the children one by one. "I was afraid I’d never see you again. I’ll never forgive myself for letting that idiotic banker take you away from me.”
This passage above shows that Justice Strauss would never ask Mr. Poe to fetch the Baudelaire siblings at Briny Beach. So it is not the true J. S.
TPP chapter 8:
“I’m sorry, too,” Jerome said. “As soon as I heard about all the troubles that befell you in the Village of Fowl Devotees, I began my own Baudelaire search. Volunteers were leaving me messages everywhere-at least, I thought the messages were addressed to me.” “And I thought they were addressed to me ,” Justice Strauss said. “There are certainly plenty of people with the initials J. S.” “I began to feel like an impostor,” Jerome said.
This excerpt shows that Justice Strauss and Jerome found it very strange to have messages for JS. Jerome even felt like an impostor. They evidently do not know many secrets of VFD, and were not the recipients of the message in the refrigerator, nor of Quigley ’s message.
Other evidence: In TPP there is a picture and a passage showing that female VFD members can disguise themselves as VFD members of the male gender. The engraving is in ALSO NOT CHAPTER. The picture shows a woman who was disguised as a man. About this, Lemony wrote in TPP chapter 7:
“In the basement, a strange sight housekeepers removed a disguise, and drilled a hole behind an ornamental vase in order to examine the cables that held one of the elevators in place, while listening to the faint sound of a very annoying song coming from a room just above her.”
The engraving shows that the woman’s disguise involves a false mustache, a type of barrel decorated with eyes, a top hat and a suit. This is evidence that Beatrice could disguise herself as a man easily. This is evidence that Beatrice could also disguise herself as a man easily.
It’s interesting what Esmé said about J.S. when she talked to Geraldine Julienne.
TPP chapter 4:
“I reveal my special hors d'oeuvres for Thursday’s cocktail party, I want you to tell me something about a certain guest at this hotel. He's been lurking around the basement, plotting to spoil our party. His initials are J. S.”
This is evidence that Esmé did not know who JS was. This shows that JS was on the noble side of Schism.
Also interesting is what Charles said about JS in TPP chapter 5:
(Sir): “You’re the one who said enemies might be lurking in this hotel!”
“That’s what I was told in the letter I received,” Charles said. “According to J. S., we must be very cautious if we want to find the Baudelaires.”
“… Perhaps I can ask one of the concierges for a pair of binoculars. J. S. said they might be arriving by submarine, so I could watch for a periscope rising from the sea.”
This is evidence that J. S. was someone on the “noble” side of VFD because he warned Charles about the dangers. In addition, J.S. warned Charles that the Baudelaire siblings would be arriving by submarine. This shows that JS knew about Queequeg.
TPP chapter 5:
I care about you, Sir. And I care about the Baudelaires. If what J. S. wrote is true, then their parents-“
That is other evidence. J.S. wrote to Charles in a letter some secret about the parents of the Baudelaires siblings. This time, the person who must have written to Charles was Jacques Snicket himself. This letter in which Jacques wrote to Charles about the Baudelaires’ parents must have been sent to him before the death of Jacques Snicket. In TVV, when Jacques Snicket tried to talk to the Baudelaire siblings, he almost told a secret about their parents.
TVV chapter 6:
(Jacques Snicket:) Please listen to me, I beg of you! I’m not Count Olaf! My name is Jacques!” He turned to the three siblings, who could see he had tears in his eyes. “Oh, Baudelaires,” he said, “I am so relieved to see that you are alive. Your parents — ”
“That's enough out of you," Officer Luciana said, clasping her white-gloved hand over Jacques’s mouth.
I believe Jacques would tell the Baudelaire siblings that one of their parents was alive.
TPP Chpater 6:
Chapter 6:
"I have news from J. S.” - either Frank or Ernest was whispering to Hal.
“J. S.?“ Hal said. "She’s here?” “She’s here to help," the manager corrected. "She's been using her Vision Furthering Device to watch the skies, and I’m afraid she reports that we will all be eating crow.”
“I’m sorry to hear that," Hal said. "Crow is a tough bird to cook, because the meat is very muscular from all the carrying that crows do.”
“It is a shame,“ agreed either Frank or Ernest. "If only there was something that could make the dish a little sweeter. I’ve heard that certain mushrooms are available.” “Sugar would be better than mushrooms,” Hal said unfathomably.
“According to our calculations, the sugar will be laundered sometime after nightfall,” replied the manager, equally unfathomably.
“I’m glad," Hal said. "My job's been difficult enough. Do you know how many leaves of lettuce I’ve had to send up to the roof?”
For some reason, Hal was apparently working with Esmé. He was sending lettuce leaves to her clothes. Lemony had said in THH that he had to search for several months if Hal, at the time he worked at the hospital, was or was not a spy. The question is, why did Lemony have this doubt? Because evidently, at the time of events recorded in TPP, Hal was already a spy on the incendiary side. Dewey knew this, so he passed on false information to Hal. It was in this way that Olaf received insider information about what was apparently to happen at the hotel. That’s why the information Dewey passed to Hal about JS was not true. JS was not there to help the incendiary side. But the interesting thing is that Hal believed she was there to help the incendiary side. Hal acted as if he already knew JS. This is evidence that JS was acting as a double agent. Beatrice was pretending to support the incendiary side by disguising herself as a woman named JS. But evidently she had only communicated with people who did not know her personally. So Olaf and Esmé were not contacted by her.
The passage also points to how Dewey passed the false information to Olaf’s supporters as to where the sugar bowl would fall. Olaf’s supporters believed that the sugar bowl containing the whistle to control the Great Unknown would come by the crows. Hal was saying that he thought it would be better to have a giant beast attack than exposure to a deadly fungus.
That’s what I have as evidence. But that raises an interesting question.
Did the first time Mr. Poe fetched the Baudelaire Siblings at Briny Beach, he also received a message from Beatrice about where they were?
After all, how did Mr. Poe know exactly where the Baudelaire siblings were on the day of the fire? Who warned him? How did he get there so fast?
According to the UA, chapter 11, Lemony also knew about the possibility of one or more survivors in the Baudelaire mansion fire. How could he know that?
Also, exists in the bad beginning the rare edition, there is a very interesting note:
p.2 The three Baudelaire children lived with their parents in an enormous mansion at the heart of a dirty and busy city, and occasionally their parents gave them permission to take a rickety trolley-the word “rickety”, you probably know, here means “unsteady” or “likely to collapse”-alone to the seashore…
On that particular occasion, the Baudelaire parents not only gave their children permission but encouraged them to leave the house, as the adults had some pressing business to atten to. This business was delayed indefinitely due to death.
Why had Beatrice and Bertrand insisted so much that their children left home exactly that day? What did not their parents want them to see happen? Why did Bertrand die and Beatrice survived? Why did Beatrice have so much fun killing Count Olaf’s father or parents? And why did R. claim that Beatrice was not a person to look for lost goods?
And why is not Lemony who you think he is? What dark secrets are hidden in TBL? What is “the End”? Why is Lemony finished? The next text will answer these questions through my other hypothesis.
