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Post by SF on Aug 24, 2005 12:20:08 GMT -5
It's more on the inside that you can see it.
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Post by Eye Of The Count on Aug 30, 2005 1:25:49 GMT -5
Thanks for brining that up Antenora, I never knew.
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Post by Sixteen on Aug 31, 2005 9:36:37 GMT -5
I think it's to show that someone who would not use a coaster would probably not be a friend of the family, or would be someone purposely disobeying the rules. Later in the notes it says something like, "A ring was found on the table where someone did not use a coaster" and something else about the arsonist drinking from a brandy bottle.
So, yes they were fussy, but I think it's just there to show that the arsonist was not a friend.
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Post by Sixteen on Aug 31, 2005 9:49:01 GMT -5
No problem.
Why do you think the Baudelaire mansion had hidden spyholes?
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Post by Dante on Aug 31, 2005 9:52:43 GMT -5
I think "fussy" is a bit unfair. If I had an old and very nice wooden table, I certainly wouldn't want rings from people's bottles or glasses left on it. It'd be like having a dried-in stain from blood or some other beverage on the carpet. It'd practically ruin the thing.
Edit: And if thinking that makes me fussy, then call me fussy.
Fake Edit Thing, It's Hard To Explain: I don't think it did. That one note about Olaf's house having spyholes and cameras and microscopes and such "as in the Baudelaire mansion" is linked to by another note about Violet's microscope. From the looks of things, it was just a fancy way of saying "there was a microscope in the Baudelaire mansion."
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Post by Sixteen on Aug 31, 2005 9:56:27 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't think about it that way. That makes more sense. It just seems like a strange way to link the two.
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Post by SF on Aug 31, 2005 15:39:25 GMT -5
Did anyone notice, in the movie, that Olaf's house is composed of a wood that has a green-ish tint? Thanks for brining that up Antenora, I never knew. I brought that up !
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Post by Brian on Aug 31, 2005 20:37:32 GMT -5
I think the cameras and peepholes simply serve to further the idea that the Baudelaire mansion was a VFD-built home.
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Post by lauren on Sept 8, 2005 5:53:08 GMT -5
Don't lie SF!! DOn't you know taking credit for others people work is unlawful!!!!! jk jk Anywhos i do not think it really matters what that dining table was used for there r too many huge mysteries in this series, Lemony won't waste 'precious book space' just to expleain the mystery of the dinning tables uses
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Post by Ennui on Sept 8, 2005 9:24:33 GMT -5
The real question seems to me to be: was the Baudelaire mansion in the city, the one with the passage to 667 Dark Avenue that Olaf burnt, the same as the Baudelaire green mansion, mentioned by Sir? If not, that green mansion could very well still be extant, and might be where the Baudelaires are allowed to finally end up at the end of Book the Thirteenth to dwell on their grief...if so, I hope we'll be told so in some aside about the lost house's green walls.
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Post by Brian on Sept 10, 2005 8:26:02 GMT -5
There's only one Baudelaire mansion, and it's green. While we haven't heard that said explicably, it's darn well safe to assume that.
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Post by Ennui on Sept 10, 2005 9:05:28 GMT -5
It seems odd to have the burnt mansion be green. I can just about accept not being told about the green wood in the narrative, as a typical Lemonian trait, but would a green mansion produce ash and ruins as we see in Book the Sixth? Then there's the crooked evidence of the film, again discountable, showing a French-style manor.
On the whole I really like the idea of a hidden Baudelaire green mansion somewhere, though I know it's not all that likely.
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Post by Sixteen on Sept 22, 2005 14:41:59 GMT -5
Isn't there a mention of charred green wood when the Baudelaires emerge from the 667 passageway?
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Post by Dante on Sept 22, 2005 14:53:38 GMT -5
I just checked, and I didn't see any usage of the word "green" (although then again, I am tired, so I could have missed something). TEE was quite a bit before the U.A., though, wasn't it? I'm not sure if Handler would have come up with the idea of the green mansions then, although he might have.
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Post by Sixteen on Oct 16, 2005 4:18:46 GMT -5
Isn't there a mention of charred green wood when the Baudelaires emerge from the 667 passageway? I found it! I knew I remembered a mention of green wood at the Baudelire ruins. It's in Helquist's letter to Lemony in the UA.
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