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Post by PJ on Feb 10, 2005 16:05:10 GMT -5
No, I REALLY doubt he is VFD.
BUT it could be that somehow he has a grudge against VFD, or against the world cos of something that VFD caused....
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Post by Libitina on Feb 11, 2005 23:13:44 GMT -5
No, I REALLY doubt he is VFD. BUT it could be that somehow he has a grudge against VFD, or against the world cos of something that VFD caused.... Perhaps he was formerly a member of V.F.D.---after all, he would need to know about the organization and be somehow affiliated with them to hold a grudge against them. However, if Sir had something against members of the V.F.D., why would he supply them with the green wood? |
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Post by PJ on Feb 11, 2005 23:24:08 GMT -5
True, but I still think VFD, or perhaps Olaf is connected with his bad childhood.
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Post by Antenora on Feb 12, 2005 7:47:30 GMT -5
If Olaf is connected with his bad childhood, Sir might feel compelled to help the enemies of Olaf, the "true" VFD, by providing green wood for their headquarters. However, maybe he was selling the wood to them before the schism, possibly without knowing who they really were.
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Post by PJ on Feb 12, 2005 18:20:56 GMT -5
He probably doesn't know that he is selling to VFD.
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Post by Dante on Feb 14, 2005 11:55:50 GMT -5
Or, more likely, he didn't care, so long as he was making money.
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Post by PJ on Feb 15, 2005 1:34:02 GMT -5
Yes, or that. Though I doubt they would tell someone as cruel as him about VFD. He would just try to exploit and expose them for his own gain.
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Post by Antenora on Feb 15, 2005 9:05:35 GMT -5
Sir seems like the type who wouldn't care whom he was selling wood to, as long as he got money.
Also, I wonder if there's any significance to the fact that his suit looks like a reptile's skin--shiny and green, making him look more like a reptile than a person.
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Post by Dante on Feb 15, 2005 9:18:57 GMT -5
Either to indicate wealth, or to imply that he's a slippery character. Which he wasn't particularly. Or it had no real significance at all.
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Post by RockSunner on Feb 15, 2005 14:20:24 GMT -5
Either to indicate wealth, or to imply that he's a slippery character. Which he wasn't particularly. Or it had no real significance at all. I think it's pretty slippery to pay people with worthless coupons and to get away with it for so long. |
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Post by Dante on Feb 15, 2005 14:37:39 GMT -5
True, but it's not as though anyone (that we know of) was actually at all looking into that. I'd only really class him as slippery if he managed to charm and sneak his way out of uncomfortable situations, and all he's done so far of that nature is "We'll talk about that later!" or something to that effect.
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Post by Violet on Feb 15, 2005 18:39:04 GMT -5
Yes, but they never talked about it. Well, as far as we know.
It could signify some relationship with Uncle Monty. I don't know. Maybe Sir's Bruce! OK, I don't know.
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Post by PJ on Feb 16, 2005 1:40:23 GMT -5
He is NOT bruce. Lemony said they would never ever see his face, so anyone who they have seen is out. That basically only leads the man in the photo in THH who is hiding his face. But I think we all agree that that is Lemony.
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Post by Ennui on Feb 16, 2005 10:06:27 GMT -5
I wish to retract my earlier statement that Sir was down as laissez-faire in the index; I've checked and he isn't.
RockSunner, brilliant find regarding the Dickens. I bet that's the answer to our riddle...and an example of literature affecting the back-story, at least, of the series.
Incidentally, I have a really hard time with Dickens. I liked David Copperfield, didn't much like Oliver Twist, couldn't finish Nicholas Nickleby and couldn't start A Tale of Two Cities. It's very difficult going...
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Post by Dante on Feb 16, 2005 10:31:20 GMT -5
I found David Copperfield quite interesting, but then at around page 500 I realised that I was now pretty much bored out of my mind. There hadn't been many good bits for a while, and there weren't many good bits in the remaining two hundred pages. And I read Great Expectations a while ago. I can't really remember it, but I think I liked it.
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