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Post by Be actress Beatrice on Mar 30, 2023 5:14:31 GMT -5
I've been thinking, the real reason Lemony didn't sign it could be that the true author was someone else? Someone like Beatrice II herself, who began investigating the story of Beatrice I and the Baudelaires.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Mar 30, 2023 11:43:30 GMT -5
I was under the impression that it was a collaborative effort.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Mar 30, 2023 14:06:51 GMT -5
I need to think about it. The old Dante, not me, claimed that Beatrice Jr represented Snicket's fans. In this sense, I think it would be interesting to imagine that Snicket's fans have continued to create fanfics and in a way try to conclude a story that has been left open. Something interesting to say, is that the fourth cover of the book has the initials "BB" as a signature. This is a point in favor of Be actress Beatrice's theory. (Does your name really have 3 consecutive letters "e"s?)
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Mar 30, 2023 14:30:04 GMT -5
I do sometimes feel like the book is inviting the reader to sign the letter themselves.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Mar 30, 2023 16:53:01 GMT -5
Since the subject has come up, and as I've said many times, TBL is my favorite asoueverse book, I've reread the letter to the editor. I think the real author actually had Lemony Snicket in mind as the fictional author of this letter. This is evident in expressions that indicate that the author of the letter loved Beatrice Baudelaire. He says that because he loved Beatrice Baudelaire so much, he never thought there could be more than one Beatrice Baudelaire. Stopping to think about it, however, we find an apparent contradiction here. Lemony Snicket wrote TE. In TE he states that he knew that Beatrice Junior's name was Beatrice. He knew that Kit had asked the Baudelaires to raise her daughter. Why hadn't it occurred to her that there might be another Beatrice? And what could love for Beatrice prevent that from happening to him? There is also the complete lack of reason to sign the letter. This is undoubtedly strange behavior for Lemony. He always signed letters to the editor. He signed with his full name, not just his initials, as he seems to suggest he would. The letter is also written on a typewriter, not handwritten. Technically, there is nothing to prove that this letter is in fact from Lemony Snicket, other than the contents, which could be forged by someone pretending to be Lemony Snicket. But why would anyone pretend to be Lemony Snicket? And if Lemony's signature is missing from this letter, it is not missing from the note addressed to the My Kind Editor at the end of the fourth page of the book. This too seems like a contradiction, why would he sign in one place and not another, when evidently both the note and the letter were written at basically the same time? And why did he write the note by hand, but the letter to the editor he wrote with a typewriter? In fact, if we are to look at it coldly, there is evidence of forgery here: atypical behavior must be explained somehow.
I don't know what the explanation is. People usually lie about their identities when they have to do it for a very strong reason. Ah... it would be so interesting if in fact the person who was looking for Beatrice's letters for years was actually Beatrice I who survived the fire and started to disguise herself as Lemony Snicket.
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Post by TheAsh on Apr 3, 2023 8:08:39 GMT -5
But why would anyone pretend to be Lemony Snicket? . This is the wrong question. The right question is, why would anyone pretend to be Jacques Snicket? Couldn't resist.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Apr 3, 2023 11:10:08 GMT -5
As Jean pointed out, Lemony Snicket knows Beatrice II's name.So even if someone was pretending to be LS, they'd have to know her name, which nobody besides LS, the Baudelaires, and Kit(who's dead)does.
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