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Post by jtb2 on Nov 5, 2005 10:46:21 GMT -5
We know it has grey carpets and It has a domed atrium..
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Post by QuagmireLies on Nov 5, 2005 21:53:31 GMT -5
On the 6th floor, Room 674 faces the sea (p. 112) and room 613 faces the pond(p. 116).
On the 3rd floor, Room 371 faces the sea (p. 130).
In the basement, room 025 (the laundry room) apparently faces the pond.
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what? where are we suppose to be finding these pages?
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Post by Dante on Nov 6, 2005 3:18:59 GMT -5
...In The Penultimate Peril?
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Post by RockSunner on Nov 8, 2005 23:18:58 GMT -5
Indeed the pages are from TPP. I thought it went without saying. Another point. There have been theories posted suggesting the Hotel is of recent construction: asoue.proboards11.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rog&thread=1114035906&page=1These theories are now disproved (p. 182): He gestured to the hotel. "For years," he said, "...my comrade and I have been right here gathering all the information together."Also Sir said the last thing built with his lumber was the "horseradish factory" and that was "a very long time ago." Since the Hotel was also built using his lumber, it also was constructed long ago. (p. 112) I don't know what this implies about the trolley in the foundation. Perhaps it's the underwater catalog Hotel that contains this trolley. A trolley might make a good elevator replacement for the sideways building.
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Post by Antenora on Nov 9, 2005 8:13:55 GMT -5
On an interesting side note, we know that the horseradish factory is called Opportune Odors, which is nearly synonymous with "Lucky Smells". I've long suspected that there was some connection between the two, and TPP seems to confirm that there is, although there's possibly a connection besides Lucky Smells building the factory.
And good observation about the trolley; some part of the hotel must have been constructed recently for it to be used, and the underwater catalog could be called the "foundation" because the hotel's structure is based on it.
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Post by Sixteen on Nov 9, 2005 8:48:33 GMT -5
The catalog is also the "foundation" of Dewey's work.
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Post by Dante on Nov 9, 2005 10:06:12 GMT -5
Dewey said he needed somebody to improve on the aquatic design of the catalog. Maybe the trolley was used in a prior such improvement. Bah, Handler probably just changed his mind about the age of the hotel when he wrote TPP, and now we're having to explain his inconsistencies.
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Post by QuagmireLies on Nov 19, 2005 18:11:43 GMT -5
...In The Penultimate Peril? oh, right
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Post by Flaneur on Nov 22, 2005 20:25:22 GMT -5
I have decided to believe that the Hotel has been reconstructed - somewhere else, because the pond now reflects nothing but burnt ruins and the sky. This explains both the trolley (although it was never really said that it was put into the Hotel Denouement's foundation; we sort of filled that in ourselves) and Lemony's plans to meet Kit at the Hotel, which were being arranged at the time of his writing of The Slippery Slope, certainly after the Baudelaires burned down the edition of the Hotel we saw. I don't think it can be said that they met at the real original Hotel, the catalog in the pond, because there wouldn't be a need for curtains there. I don't think.
It is a theory which makes sense to me without having to have (more) messy business such as republishings and new editions in various worlds and whatnot. I'd like to hear what other people think of it, but I'll probably end up stubbornly believing it anyway, unless someone can definitively shoot it down.
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Post by Antenora on Nov 22, 2005 20:55:28 GMT -5
That's an interesting theory, and it makes sense. The Hotel Denouement was built too long ago for the trolley to be worked into its foundations, unless it was added onto the underwater catalog. And for all we know, there could be curtains in the underwater hotel, perhaps to conceal certain books or file cabinets.
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