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Post by Isadora on Feb 22, 2010 11:12:46 GMT -5
I'm officially confused .
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Post by Christmas Chief on Feb 24, 2010 15:32:18 GMT -5
Could you specify what it is you are confused about it? That way it can be easier for someone to explain it to you.
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Post by Isadora on Feb 24, 2010 16:03:27 GMT -5
Well, it's probably because I only read the first and fourteenth pages of this thread, so don't worry about enlightening me ;D.
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Post by Leanora Crowe on Oct 7, 2010 8:41:06 GMT -5
That's pretty cool that that even is a book, 'cause Lemony talks about a book of the same title in LSUA, and it was written by Lena Pukalie which is... an anagram of Paulin Kael! I've been trying to figure out what Lena Pukalie was an anagram of forever! I'm glad I finally know now. I knew it was an anagram, I just didn't know of what. By the way, I think the setting is an imaginary place. It has characteristics of all sorts of places in the world, but Snicket actually just blended all those things and made his own world.
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Post by violetisinventing on Dec 20, 2010 9:13:07 GMT -5
It's possible that it took place in multiple states. Personaly I think that Lake Lakymoose is possibley Travers City, Michigan and The City is New York. It would make relitive sense why there so many banks and districs.
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Post by violetbaudelaire51 on Jun 19, 2011 20:44:22 GMT -5
I always thought of Boston because of the culture to me seems very New Englandish. i don't think it could be Canada at least not the entire series because Count Olaf seems to know little french but that also could be because he wasn't well educated in the language. I think they move around too. In TCC because it's Calgary Carnival it could be set in Calgary, Alberta, Canada also because its a hinterland and the Rocky Mountains cross through it. So in TSS they could be in the Rocky Mountains. When they slide down the waterfall they probably end up in one of the Great Lakes. Throughout the book they sail east back towards the northeast. TPP they're just a few miles away from their home and in TE they probably find the island in the Atlantic. This also supports my other theory of them being from San Fransico because they could also travel east through the Great Lakes. San Francisco is also an option because of the hilly city and the rickety trolley and the boardwalk that smells like Salmon. That would make a lot of sense as well, since the Pacific Ocean you can find large numbers of salmon and a lot of islands. the only problem with my Boston theory is that there aren't as many islands in the Atlantic as there are in the Pacific. Wherever they are would have to be somewhere near the coast because of TE.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 20, 2011 8:34:37 GMT -5
In TCC because it's Calgary Carnival it could be set in Calgary, Alberta, Canada also because its a hinterland and the Rocky Mountains cross through it. So in TSS they could be in the Rocky Mountains. When they slide down the waterfall they probably end up in one of the Great Lakes. Are you sure you don't mean the Appalachian Mountains? The Rocky Mountains are located on the west coast of the United States, and the Great Lakes more towards the East. Even using the Appalachian, though, the Baudelaires would have to be sliding down a mountain a little less than a hundred miles. Well, not necessarily a coast--just near a body of water large enough to get lost in (granted, that's probably most of them) but small enough for many people to be shipwrecked on the same island (against the odds, that is).
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Post by violetbaudelaire51 on Jun 20, 2011 12:27:50 GMT -5
No the Appalachian mountains are east of Alberta and don't run through it at all. I lived in Canada and studied the geography and i'm positive the Rocky Mountains go through Alberta. It's in western Canada right next to British Columbia which is on the west coast. And the Great Lakes aren't too far plus they travel down a stream which leads in a more southeastern (not to the southwest of the United States) direction to the Great Lakes first before entering a larger body of water like Lake Superior or Lake Heron. In TE they would've been on the coast because lakes aren't exactly large enough to have many islands except for Lake Lachrymose which is very uncommon. Also if they were in a lake it would be much easier to spot land and it wouldn't be as open.The island in TE would most likely have formed in a larger body of water. you probably mean a sea because that's more reasonable. In my opinion, the island formed much like the islands in the South Pacific like Hawaii. Though there doesn't seem to be much volcanic rock on it.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 20, 2011 12:44:39 GMT -5
No the Appalachian mountains are east of Alberta and don't run through it at all. I lived in Canada and studied the geography and i'm positive the Rocky Mountains go through Alberta. It's in western Canada right next to British Columbia which is on the west coast. And the Great Lakes aren't too far plus they travel down a stream which leads in a more southeastern (not to the southwest of the United States) direction to the Great Lakes first before entering a larger body of water like Lake Superior or Lake Heron. Oh yes, I know the Rocky Mountains go through Alberta; I was actually more concerned with the distance of the mountains from the Great Lakes. It's several hundred miles apart, and the time it takes the Queequeg to reach the more open parts of sea doesn't quite compromise that distance. A sea was what I had in mind, yes. An ocean strikes me as too vast for an island upon which castaways shipwreck on accident alone (although, really, I find that an odd scenario no matter where it's placed).
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Post by Hermes on Jun 22, 2011 14:16:43 GMT -5
Here's my idea of where it takes place - this is not a canon theory of course, just how I conceive it in my own version of the world. I suggest it happens in California, in an alternative universe where California is an island.
I believe a few million years ago it was an island; more recently, the first European explorers thought it was an island. So, suppose it is still an island. That explains how it has a North American feel, and is in touch with places like Winnipeg and Arizona, and yet is somehow detached, so that Jerome can talk as if North America were somewhere else.
The City is on the site of San Francisco; behind it are the hinterlands (a term used for the land near San Francisco in Adverbs); and there are mountains nearby. It all fits!
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Post by colette on Jun 29, 2011 2:34:55 GMT -5
I like the idea of Canada but I prefer Great Britain. You certainly noticed those countries, but I never considered that. Aren't those in the Middle East? The books don't have a Middle-Eastern atmosphere to them; they seem British to me. But Bosnia, Herzegovina and Moldova aren't in Middle East.They are in Europe. But ASoUE can't take place in Moldova. I was in Moldova last year. it is near Ukraine and it is very different from Snicket's world. There is no ocean or sea near Moldova and there is no such high mountains and The Mountains of Fraught. Moldova is a very small country. Reason for Editing: Moderator Edit: Merging double-post.
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Post by Dante on Jun 29, 2011 3:35:01 GMT -5
Possibly Bosnia, Herzegovina and Moldova were selected not as actual candidates but as examples of countries which we don't tend to hear about in the news every day - places which are relatively unnoticed in western popular culture. I can see the point being made, that Daniel Handler might want to draw attention to those places for the simple fact that it's rarely done, but it would require some quite specific geographical references to identify such a place and I don't think we have such references.
Edit: And colette, remember to use the Modify button, as I'm using it here.
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Post by colette on Jul 29, 2011 15:06:33 GMT -5
You know, Dante, I am half-Moldovian. This is why I wanted to correct Antenora.
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Post by andressa on Jul 29, 2011 21:29:35 GMT -5
It's a imaginary place, I'm sure. But if is for choose a place, seems more like England.
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Post by colette on Aug 31, 2011 2:04:19 GMT -5
It's a imaginary place, I'm sure. But if is for choose a place, seems more like England. Me, too. BTW, in my ficverse Quagmires were born in Bristol,just like characters from Skins TV series. This is because I imagine Duncan and Quigley looking the same like Tony Stonem and Isadora looking like Effy Stonem.
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