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Post by Uncle Algernon on May 2, 2019 14:49:40 GMT -5
There's been scattered talks on several threads lately of how small the area over which the books take place actually is, in spite of the feeling throughout the early books that we're constantly globe-trotting from one remote location to the next. It occurs to me that this could very well be intentional, tying in with the "the adults' world seen by slowly maturing children" theme of the series; for when one is a child, what is at the end of the day a fairly small area feels like a whole world. Traveling a few dozen miles is an adventure. Your first trip to the big city is an odyssey; your first visit to the circus is a periple into a strange faraway place. The Hospital might as well be China.
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Post by Foxy on May 4, 2019 8:52:03 GMT -5
Lately, I have been imagining ASOUEland as a very tiny globe, and most of the Baudelaires' story takes place in or near an arctic circle.
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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 2:30:26 GMT -5
The world of ASOUE is supposedly an alternate version of our own. Being mostly anachronistic.
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Post by Uncle Algernon on Aug 14, 2020 11:42:57 GMT -5
The world of ASOUE is supposedly an alternate version of our own. Being mostly anachronistic. …Yes, that is commonly supposed, but I fail to see the connection?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 14, 2020 12:36:32 GMT -5
I can say that in addition to being anachronistic, the planet Earth in Asoue has a different relief and geography than ours. We see this by the description of the mountains, by the description of the island, by the description of the sea currents, and by the map drawn in LSTUA, where we see that there is a sea entering the continent of what would be North America. If we consider the political division of the ASOUE world this is even more different. The fauna is different as we see in TRR and ATWQ, and the human beings themselves are different (sunny is a different human being from the humans that exist on our planet). In this world it is possible to swallow butterflies and keep them alive inside the body of a human being without having to resort to miraculous powers. As I said, ASOUE is a fairytale world, but without fairies. A world made to satirize fairy tales.
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Post by Dante on Aug 14, 2020 14:20:12 GMT -5
As I said, ASOUE is a fairytale world, but without fairies. A world made to satirize fairy tales. An apt description, Jean Lucio. I feel you have understood something of the nature of the world Snicket invites us to.
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