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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 25, 2005 18:35:26 GMT -5
Ah, I like it. Rushed volunteers would try to recycle and salvage as much as they could. I particularly enjoy the half-finished state of Hiemlich Hospital, as Ennui said, to support this theory. And since the volunteers have stopped using Emerald Lumber to build their sanctuarys, any other available materials would have been used.
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Post by deloverly on Apr 26, 2005 16:13:44 GMT -5
so you think HH is a VFD fesility?
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 26, 2005 17:38:42 GMT -5
I didn't before, but it fits in with the theory Ennui said. Technically, it is VFD facility; it's home to the Volunteers Fighting Disease. However, it may also be a sactuary for the VFD, as the patient list is fairly teeming with volunteers.
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Post by Shelly on Apr 26, 2005 20:28:28 GMT -5
Yeah maybe but i dunno if you are right they (the parents) could have fled and Olaf burned the house down not knowing they weren't inside
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Post by Antenora on Apr 27, 2005 5:09:19 GMT -5
I like the theory that the true VFD built Heimlich Hospital as a place to store their files, as well as an actual hospital to treat the sick and injured(which would be much needed, as volunteer work can be dangerous). Its unfinished state supports this theory.
The VFDers have run out of emerald lumber, it seems, but according to the meeting transcript they painted their sanctuaries green at some point.
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Post by Dante on Apr 27, 2005 9:06:43 GMT -5
However, it may also be a sactuary for the VFD, as the patient list is fairly teeming with volunteers. I wouldn't use the patient list as evidence, as it's fairly clear to me that the names on it are only anagrams because it is amusing to devoted fans who choose to try and decode them. And I disagree with the Heimlich Hospital theory, for no real reason - I simply don't like the sound of it. On a related note, though, Hal might once have been a Volunteer, although whether he still is is questionable - and Babs at first seems normal enough, but her letter to Hal in the U.A. is somewhat suspicious in that respect. Hm. Although I just thought of a reason why I have to support this theory, at least in part. All of their guardians were in V.F.D. - that's what the Baudelaires speculated in TSS, and I believe them. Still, though, I can interpret that in a way which doesn't require me to believe that Heimlich Hospital was a V.F.D. facility. I imagine that they'd have to paint the sancutaries green if they built them out of something other than wood.
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Post by Ennui on Apr 27, 2005 9:09:07 GMT -5
Kit refers to the Heimlich Hospital Library of Records in the same breath as Dr Montgomery's library in the LSUA. That clinches it for me.
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Post by deloverly on Apr 27, 2005 18:56:39 GMT -5
where was that?
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Post by Ennui on Apr 27, 2005 23:38:18 GMT -5
Um, in the LSUA...
Look for the letter where an unknown woman is searching for her brother's papers in the Fountain of Victorious Finance.
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Post by Who wants to know? on Apr 28, 2005 13:30:38 GMT -5
oooooh . . . that part *looks it up*
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 28, 2005 17:16:42 GMT -5
For reference:
Page 75 of the Unauthorized Autobiography
...Perhaps it was foolish to keep this collection in plain sight, instead of locked up tight, but even the most secure collections of information - the Library of Records at Heimlich Hospital, which was kept behind a locked door, or Dr. Montgomery's books, which were guarded by watchful reptiles - are gone now...
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Post by Ennui on Apr 28, 2005 23:30:31 GMT -5
Good work, Kelsea...that was indeed the bit I meant. That and Babs' note to Hal persuade me...
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 29, 2005 17:30:29 GMT -5
Again, for reference:
Page 176, The Unauthorized Autobiography
Hal,
Please place the enclosed papers in the Baudelaire file, even though they are marked Snicket. They appear to be various attempts to compose an opening sentance for a rather gruesome-sounding children's book.
With all due respect, Babs.
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Post by deloverly on Apr 30, 2005 13:32:04 GMT -5
So I guess that Babs was in VFD . . . probably not though . . .
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Post by Ennui on Apr 30, 2005 23:39:46 GMT -5
And though Olaf kills a lot of people, his killing of her could be seen in the Jacques Snicket vein...getting rid of an enemy...
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