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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 2, 2020 18:25:25 GMT -5
Someone besides me was serious with the print that Colonel was killed because he knew how to control BB and that maybe Colonel has used BB during the war?
I got the impression that Hangfire killed the colonel to prevent information about how BB was controlled from leaking out.
Someone besides me thought that if the statuette was inside the SB would solve the mystery of SB but soon after you realized that the statuette was too big to fit within SB?
I ask this because if the colonel knew that there was another way of controlling the Beast, it could of course be a much smaller whistle that would fit inside a sugar bowl. And there could have been other equal whistles. In fact, the "wizard" who imitated the beast's voice must in fact have created a technology to create whistles that controlled the beast. In this case, DH would have thought about this whole plot after writing ASOUE in order to broaden the mythology of the gigantic question-mark animal that appears in ASOUE.
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Post by Dante on Jan 3, 2020 13:30:06 GMT -5
More likely it was revenge, pure and simple. The Inhumane Society was founded to protest the destruction of a rare moth species's habitat and its replacement with a statue celebrating war. They injured Colonel Colophon then, and years later, Hangfire finished the job. With that said, I do expand a little on Colonel Colophon and his background in The Stain'd Myth Murders.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 4, 2020 16:40:01 GMT -5
It seems to me unlikely that there have been any fully grown BB's for many generations, until Hangfire decided to recreate them - indeed, perhaps there were no living ones, just the long-preserved eggs.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 4, 2020 21:15:45 GMT -5
It seems to me unlikely that there have been any fully grown BB's for many generations, until Hangfire decided to recreate them - indeed, perhaps there were no living ones, just the long-preserved eggs. Well, some sailors still swear they saw the beast out there ... And the war seems to have happened decades before. And if the book about caviar talked about BB, it's likely that the beast really had existed in a relatively recent time.
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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 1:41:20 GMT -5
When I hear the phrase "the war" I think of World War I/The Great War, which is what people at the time referred to it as. Colonel Colophon's illustration (even though it's Hangfire in disguise) his uniform has three medals on it. One appears to be an iron cross, something that the German soldiers wore in WWI. His uniform is also reminiscent of a corporal of that time period.
I have a theory that ATWQ takes place sometime after WWI, supposedly somewhere in the 1920's or 30's. The events of ASOUE takes place in the early 1970's, forty or so years after.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 14, 2020 2:04:56 GMT -5
I have always imagined this war as the second world war. The first war is cited in ASOUE. And it was in World War II that they tried to use bats to attack Japan and pigeons to control missiles. This use of animals seems to be recurrent at the time of the main events of ASOUE.A bat trainer would be welcome at this time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomben.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 2:13:02 GMT -5
Interesting, I didn't know about Bat Bombs. But I suppose that VFD could've had similar tactics to WWII.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 15, 2020 13:18:52 GMT -5
In fact the batbomb plot with bats inside a casing, being trained to cause fires, with help from former actors and former hotel managers because of a dentist's suggestion seems to have come from Daniel Handler's mind and not from the history books. Especially because of the outcome, as there is a great dramatic irony here: the bats broke free and attacked a militar base causing a fire in one of the arsonists' properties.
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