Post by Tay Sachs on Sept 21, 2003 18:25:20 GMT -5
I am putting money on Beatrice appearing alive before the end of the series. My evidence?
As far as our chronology goes up to the time of the events of TCC Beatrice is not dead yet. Look at the letter from Jacques to Lemony on pages 96-98 of the LSUA.
J mentions the ‘hot air mobile home that H is always talking about building’ this obviously refers to Hector in TVV. Obviously Jacques is still alive when he writes this letter as he is killed in TVV by which time H has completed the Deus Ex Machina.
Now go a little further back in the letter J says ‘You must not communicate with B at all, not even by telegram or carrier pigeon’, this means that Beatrice is still alive when Jacques writes the letter. If the letter is written at the time of the events of The wide Window then it means that Beatrice is alive after the fire in The Bad Beginnning (which took place in the morning, not in the afternoon, as the fire that killed Beatrice did.)
Now the books are written some time after the unfortunate events take place. Prufrock Prep has already been closed a long time, Lemony not even knowing what has become of Klaus and Sunny. Why he doesn't mention Violet, shrug. I dunno.
*Val waves her arms frantically, making noises of excitment*
Yah yah, new info.
Thank goodness I found my copy of LSUA! I now recall all the other important evidence to support this theory.
My new evidence follows.
In LSUA Jacques writes a letter to Jerome, in which he warns him not to marry Esme'. All right, we knew that. Now look closer at the letter. It is written just about the time the Baudelaire children leave the lumbermill.
I quote "A recent article described a deadly accident at lucky smells lumbermill" ect.
So as of the Miserable Mill, Esme and Jerome are not even married yet, though they marry very shortly thereafter. They had just moved into the penthouse when the children arrived in TEE.
Next. My big guns, so to speak
page 144 of LSUA, Lemony writes a letter to the duchess of winnipeg. The subject? Her masked ball, which he intends to attend. Now look further in the letter. Lemony says "they are still searching for the survivors of Dr. Montgomery's repitle collection." Now this means without a doubt, that at least up until the point of The Reptile Room Beatrice was still alive!! (He wouldn't bother to go to the ball and warn her if she was dead, of course)
Well, that was all. Pardon my outburst.
As far as our chronology goes up to the time of the events of TCC Beatrice is not dead yet. Look at the letter from Jacques to Lemony on pages 96-98 of the LSUA.
J mentions the ‘hot air mobile home that H is always talking about building’ this obviously refers to Hector in TVV. Obviously Jacques is still alive when he writes this letter as he is killed in TVV by which time H has completed the Deus Ex Machina.
Now go a little further back in the letter J says ‘You must not communicate with B at all, not even by telegram or carrier pigeon’, this means that Beatrice is still alive when Jacques writes the letter. If the letter is written at the time of the events of The wide Window then it means that Beatrice is alive after the fire in The Bad Beginnning (which took place in the morning, not in the afternoon, as the fire that killed Beatrice did.)
Now the books are written some time after the unfortunate events take place. Prufrock Prep has already been closed a long time, Lemony not even knowing what has become of Klaus and Sunny. Why he doesn't mention Violet, shrug. I dunno.
*Val waves her arms frantically, making noises of excitment*
Yah yah, new info.
Thank goodness I found my copy of LSUA! I now recall all the other important evidence to support this theory.
My new evidence follows.
In LSUA Jacques writes a letter to Jerome, in which he warns him not to marry Esme'. All right, we knew that. Now look closer at the letter. It is written just about the time the Baudelaire children leave the lumbermill.
I quote "A recent article described a deadly accident at lucky smells lumbermill" ect.
So as of the Miserable Mill, Esme and Jerome are not even married yet, though they marry very shortly thereafter. They had just moved into the penthouse when the children arrived in TEE.
Next. My big guns, so to speak
page 144 of LSUA, Lemony writes a letter to the duchess of winnipeg. The subject? Her masked ball, which he intends to attend. Now look further in the letter. Lemony says "they are still searching for the survivors of Dr. Montgomery's repitle collection." Now this means without a doubt, that at least up until the point of The Reptile Room Beatrice was still alive!! (He wouldn't bother to go to the ball and warn her if she was dead, of course)
Well, that was all. Pardon my outburst.
