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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 13, 2004 0:14:11 GMT -5
All I can say is... wow... This is pretty much gonna make all you 'Believers That the 'Gr-' in the 'Grim Gr-' is the word graveyard... wet your pants...
Did you know that in TWW Lemony says he has a graveyard behind his home...
The exact quote is as follows:
Bottom of Page 80 and Top of Page 81
"I am sitting in my room, in the middle of the night, writing down this story and looking out my window at the graveyard behind my home."
Now tell me that is not interesting...
I am officially a 'Believer That the 'Gr-' in the 'Grim Gr-' is the word graveyard...
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Post by JM on Jan 13, 2004 8:53:15 GMT -5
yes but how will they end up in lemony's home?
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Jan 13, 2004 11:18:37 GMT -5
In one of the author descriptions of a later book, it said that Mr. Snicket was born near the sea and currently lives under it.
It could be that he lives in the grotto, and the graveyard he's looking at is a sunken ship or some such thing and he is being free with terms when he refers to it as graveyard. Or that, due to some misfortune, he was forced to move sometime after he wrote "The Wide Window". (I bet the government wanted to build a bypass there.) To a home under the sea. Isn't there an underwater hotel in the Florida Keys?
Since half of the insignificant details are literary references, he may be talking about the Robert Frost poem about a father who buries his dead child in the back yard and the wife hates him for it, and is never willing to speak to him.
I wonder who's buried there. Is it a family graveyard, or a churchyard, or a lone cemetary? Is it one of those abandoned graveyards where peolple aren't buried anymore? Is it one of the places we saw at the end of LSUA?
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Post by Luigi on Jan 13, 2004 15:26:34 GMT -5
Yes...I agree with Pester. But you know what would suck? If L forgot about all the stuff he wrote, and it remained insignificant background detail.
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 13, 2004 15:51:43 GMT -5
JM... simple... who knows where the stricken stream leads... After all in order for Ls to love the Baudeliare's mother (Beatrice) wouldn't he have to live near or around her? So, I inconclusively think that we will be meeting LS shortly...
Pester... had no idea what you said...
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Post by Duncan Master Reporter on Jan 13, 2004 20:19:25 GMT -5
i couldnt think of anyone...
possibly beatrice, but i am forced to beleive she is mrs baudlaire
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 14, 2004 15:11:54 GMT -5
She is the baud mom
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 15, 2004 18:58:02 GMT -5
I thought that the graveyard behind Lemony's house was a VFD one, where they buried their dead members. Where do the dead members go (there are quite a lot of them) if they arn't burned to a crisp? They could go the the VFD graveyard of course.
The sunken-ship-as-a-graveyard thing makes some sense. Like the saying "He's gone to sleep with the fishes" as a reference that 'he' has died.
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 15, 2004 22:13:22 GMT -5
Well... They could just bury the members in a regular graveyard... No one would know they were once apart of V.F.D...
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 16, 2004 21:35:59 GMT -5
But if it was a "noble organization" even if it was a secret, some relatives or other volunteers might want to remember their dead family as bold and noble, among the best of the dead VFD community.
And anyway, any outsider looking in on a VFD graveyard would think it is an ordinary cementary.
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 17, 2004 12:49:35 GMT -5
True, true, all could be true... but I seriously hate the underwater theory...
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 17, 2004 14:04:45 GMT -5
Why do you hate the underwater theory? It could make sense, especially if the Baudelaires come to an underwater grotto.
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 17, 2004 15:34:49 GMT -5
Because I always hated like the underwater scene... ever play Super Mario 64
I HATED THE UNDERWATER LEVEL
playing it made me sick
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Post by JeromeSqualor on Jan 22, 2004 16:03:52 GMT -5
Hahahaha... I guess I'll have to get used to being wrong...
"Lemony Snicket grew up near the sea and currently lives under it." - First sentence in the back of TMM when you are reading about the author...
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Feb 11, 2004 19:55:56 GMT -5
It's unlikely that the graveyard is both a sunken ship and an underwater graveyard. In many of the pictures at the end of LSUA, he was looking for someone or something in a graveyard, and not out at sea. He could've been looking for someone/something that isn't involved in the VFD.
Besides, people are only buried at sea if they died there, and death by fire seems more consistent than death by drowning for volunteers.
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