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Post by Violet on Jan 16, 2005 16:42:08 GMT -5
On page 211 of TWW, it says "...we can never know exactly what happened to Aunt Josephine, but I will say that eventually- about the time when the Baudelaire orphans were forced to attend a miserable boarding school..."
Now, I don't know about you, but in my book, the boarding school is in book number five. Didn't Daniel plan 4 books? Or did that plan change after TRR?
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Post by faithlesslily on Jan 16, 2005 17:52:49 GMT -5
I remember reading that! I just smiled at that though because the 5th book was already out when I read them.. And I didn't know about the 4 books thing. Ah well, maybe it was worked out after RR. ANd if not he probably just had a plot in case. And he just thought he'd add that in. Good spot.
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Post by Dante on Jan 17, 2005 11:35:20 GMT -5
He planned four books, but it would be silly to think he didn't have a vague idea of the next step for the series if it didn't flop. And the boarding school thing is mentioned throughout TMM anyway.
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Post by PJ on Jan 20, 2005 13:04:16 GMT -5
Yes, but it IS interesting that it is mentioned in TWW. We don't know exactly when he planned to further the series. But it would be kinda lame if he didn't do a book on the academy especially after mentioning it.
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Post by Libitina on Jan 21, 2005 17:28:20 GMT -5
Perhaps this foreshadowing gives us a hint to the time sequence. Obviously, Snicket would have had to know about the Baudelaires being at the boarding school in order to mention it. This means that he is not really following them while writing the books; he already knows about the events.
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Post by PJ on Jan 22, 2005 14:40:37 GMT -5
Yes, that is the general theory for the first few books. He mentions book 13 in TBB:RE also. But it seems that in TSS he is sending his sister a message of the meeting that will be a week later, which means he is only a week ahead of them or so. But this meeting may be another one, not the same denouement one. But it is doubtful.
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Post by Violet on Jan 23, 2005 16:28:16 GMT -5
Hmm...well it would seem that TAA events are long past by the time TWW was written, so maybe they were up to TVV events (I don't know) by TWW. Or some other book where a lot of time goes by. Eventually, he caught up to them.
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Post by The "Innest" Guy in town. on Jan 24, 2005 23:26:00 GMT -5
Oooh yes i noticed that, and thought it was interesting. I knew that the 5th book was the austere academy at the time but i didn't have it.
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Post by chabo on Jan 25, 2005 7:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by Dante on Jan 25, 2005 8:12:16 GMT -5
as i have read TAA i noticed some very fishy things going on between dunkin quagmire and violet baud. i woke up one sunny morn and decided to make myself a peice of toast. after catching every crumb with my nostils i decided that it was to open TAA with my feet.... on page 110.....i thought that it was very weird that violet and dunkin were sharing the same silverware and cup.... i mean shouldnt it be boy with boy and girl with girl, so violet should have been with isadora. the next mysterious thing tha ti found was that in one of vice principle nero's violin recitals klause and isadora were sitting at one end of the auditorium making poetry and violet and dunkin were sitting together at the other end hand in hand eyes twinkeling, absorbing each others presence and no other. the next think that caught my nostril was that while violet and her siblings were visiting vice principals nero's office and trying to warn about olaf being in descuise then nero shouted out from the blue/black/pink he could be anyone, he could be me, he could be you, or he could be whats your boyfriends name? ? oh yes thats right dunkin quagmire.... violet then blushed, and this simply wasnt becuase it was fake it was because it was every bit truthfull. P.S. please reply to this post or you can give me a shout out at eliza_cramb@hotmail.com P.S. my name is quiggly Wrong thread for this, really, but it is as you said. I checked the book. “Say no more about it,” Duncan said and patted Violet’s hand. And they said nomore about it. They didn’t say another word about Count Olaf for the rest of Nero’s sonata, or while he performed it the second time, or the third time, or the fourth time, or the fifth time, or even the sixth time, by which time it was very late at night. The Baudelaire orphans and the Quagmire triplets merely sat in a companionable comfort, a phrase which here means many things, all of them happy even though it is quite difficult to be happy while hearing a terrible sonata performed over and over by a man who cannot play the violin, while attending an atrocious boarding school with an evil man sitting nearby undoubtedly planning something dreadful. But happy moments came rarely and unexpectedly in the Baudelaires’ lives, and the three siblings had to learn to accept them. Duncan kept his hand on Violet’s and talked to her about terrible concerts he had attended while the Quagmire parents were alive, and she was happy to hear his stories. Isadora began working on a poem about libraries and showed Klaus what she had written in her notebook, and Klaus was happy to offer suggestions.TAA – p80-81
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Post by bere89 on Feb 28, 2005 13:48:46 GMT -5
I NOTICED THAT TOO IMSGEN IF DUNCAN FINDS OUT THAT VIOLET LIKES HIS BORTHER QUIGLEY I THINK HE WOULD BE VERY MAD
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Post by PJ on Feb 28, 2005 19:35:24 GMT -5
I NOTICED THAT TOO IMSGEN IF DUNCAN FINDS OUT THAT VIOLET LIKES HIS BORTHER QUIGLEY I THINK HE WOULD BE VERY MAD Yes, but what has that got to do with this thread? And try not to caps lock too much. Also, Quigley is so much better than Duncan.
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Post by edaj on Feb 28, 2005 22:39:44 GMT -5
Anyways, back on topic - awesome pick-up, there. One of my favorite things about ASOUE is Lemony's hint-dropping through each of the novels. (He is such a tease.)
Also, I had always assumed that Lemony was following the Baudelaires with a lapse of at least several months. When he speaks of the locations of each novel in his narrative, he often refers to how they have disappeared. (I think I remember him saying that one would not find any remains of Heimlich Hospital, though I can't find the exact page number. I realize the hospital was burned down, but even that would leave some remains, yes?)
- Jade
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Post by Dante on Mar 1, 2005 11:27:09 GMT -5
Also, I had always assumed that Lemony was following the Baudelaires with a lapse of at least several months. When he speaks of the locations of each novel in his narrative, he often refers to how they have disappeared. (I think I remember him saying that one would not find any remains of Heimlich Hospital, though I can't find the exact page number. I realize the hospital was burned down, but even that would leave some remains, yes?) - Jade He did actually describe the remains in detail, although quite some time seemed to have passed.
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Post by eggman on Mar 1, 2005 14:31:15 GMT -5
I slightly remember that part of the book
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