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Post by negativenine on Dec 8, 2003 23:59:18 GMT -5
I just noticed this in skimming through Twelth Night and I'd be interested to hear if I'm off my rocker or not in relating it to ASOUE. Olivia and Viola are practically anagrams. Not only that, but Mal Volio (Mal= "bad, ill") contains the same letters, too . Take that in combination with "Illyria" which translates into something like "sick song" and you have ANOTHER interesting reference (and we all know Snicket likes to play around with town names, too). Not only that, but we go into the whole "if music be the food of love" thing and talking about partying and eating oneself sick in the openning act. Anyway, that hardly matters. However, back to the Olivia and Viola anagrams: Olivia and ViolET are ASOUE characters (I know you already know, kids, but do you think this relates at all to 12th Night?). I don't know if this MEANS anything, as far as theorizing and plot, but I thought the reference was an interesting possibility. Ideas? Oh, and you can find the play here: www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/12night-table.html
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Post by negativenine on Dec 11, 2003 23:30:24 GMT -5
Wow, that IS an interesting connection. I wonder how many of these references are coincidences... I mean, they're pretty complicated meanings, and it would be hard to work them in purposefully, but there are a lot of things that seem to fit almost perfectly.
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Post by negativenine on Dec 13, 2003 23:31:36 GMT -5
Yeah. It could have just been one of those last minute-ly cool things he added in at the last minute to be cool, though. Ummm... sorry that was so stupid. What I meant was he could have just thrown it in at the last minute, after having read 13th Night.
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Post by MsMourning on Jun 13, 2004 22:34:46 GMT -5
Interesting. The Thirteenth Night sounds a lot like the organization...
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