Mr. Poe's Cough.

[Caterina]

I also am wondering that very thing, also I am wondering if Poe really went to search for the Qaugmires, tere is a big chance he didnt...

[SnicketyLemons]

I agree with you about Mr. Poe pry not going to look for the Qaugmires. I just wonder what in the world he is doing as the Baudelaires are narrowly missing death out in the world. I do hope he okay though! It would be horrianle if he died! What would the Baudelaires do without him!? Even if he's not much help....he helps a bit!

[Caterina]

Yeha, ummm... They are doing pretty fine wihtout him now... Lolz, of course if he like suddenly became some great help (unlikely) then he might be valuable... Of course there always is that element of him being secretly stupid.

[SnicketyLemons]

Oh sure nag at Mr. Poe, for not being a HUGE help!
But still he could become a help soon! What if Lemony Snicket made Mr. Poe to be this way and in the end he is just fakeing being ummm...... unhelpfull...and help a great deal!

[Caterina]

Ok,now I think we have all gotten into an impasse, at the moment we cannot tell if Poe is good, bad, or stupid, so nless you have concrete evidence lets stop arguing, LoLz.

[StellaFantasia]

Even though Mr Poe isn't very helpful, it would be depressing if he died. He's the only adult in the Baudelaire's life that's not trying to kill them! Well, probably not, anyway. If Mr Poe died, the Baudelaires really would be alone.

[SnicketyLemons]

Yes, he is the only, and pry last adult in the Baudelaires lives. It realy would be a shame if he died... But then again the Baudelaires have gotten this far, for a while without him...

[ParsleySoda667]

There's a book called "Nine Stories" By: J.D. Sallinger, and there's a story in there entitled "For Eseme- With Love and Squaler" Read it, it contains clues.

[SnicketyLemons]

Cool, Thanx for telling me that, I'll go find it, and read it.

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VioletBaudelaire14 said:

In English we had to read a one of Edgar Allen Poe's storys entitled "The Cask Of Amontialldo". It was pretty creepy, but anyways, one of the main characters, I forget the, name, seemed to cough alot, and some ironic forshadowing was bounced off his coughs unto the revalation of his murder, if that makes sense. Its just this character may be formed by Mr. Snicket of the persistant coughing, plus he is from Edgar Allen Poe. Please let me know about what you think please!!!

Freakishness...

[Tay Sachs]

I posted the entire "For Esme" story up on Leering Literature, you gotta go search for it though, if you want it.
And as for Mr. Poe's cough, I've wondered if it could be related to Esme Squalor's coughing in TSS but a more likely explanation is the cough is a reference to the tuberculosis which ran epidemic through England and America from about 1850- up until the invention of antibiotics in the thirties. Yes, you can have it as a child and go on living, it was actually quite common for people to contract it as a kid and not die for many years after...TB takes a while to kill you, getting better and getting worse over time as your immune system can no longer control it.
Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia died of it, among many many many other people. Poe himself actually died of rabies. Creepy, hmm?
In the late 1800s it was considered quite the In way to die (before they knew about the germ thing), since you became quite weak, pale, thin and quiet, and it was immortalized in lots and lots of victorian literature.
As for where Mr. Poe is now, he's at the bank. He chopped down all the telephone poles on rarely ridden road and is ignoring telegrams, because Geraldine Julienne told him upright telephone poles and telegrams were dangerous. Consequently, he doesn't know the Baudelaires need his help, neither does he know his sister is tied up in the basement of her newspaper's office. It's all in LSUA.

[Caterina]

Yes, I figured most of that, but isnt he an avid reader of the daily Ounctillio? So wouldn't he be alramed about the Baudelaire Butcher article?

[SnicketyLemons]

Well I suppose he would be alarmed! That would be most uncaring if he wasn't! But still, do you think he might be out looking for the Baudelaires?!

[Caterina]

We can only hope.

[SnicketyLemons]

I suppose you are right...