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Post by Green on Jul 3, 2004 15:12:15 GMT -5
This is not quite about the reason the VFD want quiet. Last night i was rereading TCC and on p 158 Olivia says:"The world is a confusing and harum-scarum place.They say that long ago it was quiet and peaceful but that m ight be a legend,or a myth." I think it is a legend or a myth. The earth is not a quiet place. Even in libraries, as you sit quietly reading your book, how often are you disturbed by a small child or a group of students chattering to each other. I personally think noise is a part of being human. Music, laughter, why would the VFD want to get rid of these? I like to talk. Screams, fire sirens, maybe.
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Jul 3, 2004 15:35:14 GMT -5
They don't mean literally dead silent, but just quieter than it is, and peaceful. Perhaps the underlying purpose of VFD is to bring world peace, a goal I approve of greatly. Noble, if a bit overidealistic.
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Post by isadora667 on Jul 3, 2004 17:19:22 GMT -5
um the meaning I think is self explanitory the world of VFD used to be "quiet" untill the schism and now it is harum scarum and they want to return VFD to a quiet associaton I may be wrong but.....
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Post by GRammaret on Jul 19, 2004 15:27:12 GMT -5
i guess i get it. cool theory. i'd probably have to go with the "everyone in disguise" one though.
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Post by alexela on Aug 7, 2004 14:08:56 GMT -5
sure
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Post by MrBaudelaire on Aug 21, 2004 10:36:04 GMT -5
Quigley, great thinking. I believe it, though there may be a little more to the meaning. Excellent theory
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Post by i. on Aug 22, 2004 19:29:50 GMT -5
I imagined the world is quite here to mean that VFD was a quite, undercover organazation until Geradine started writing secret places you should know about for the Daily Punctillio.
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Post by bere89 on Jan 25, 2005 18:11:34 GMT -5
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Post by SnicketFires on Jan 25, 2005 21:43:53 GMT -5
"The World is Quiet Here" is a tribute to Swinburne's "Garden of Proserpine" whose first line is "Here, where the world is quiet."
Please do not bump threads more than a month old, please.
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Post by Dante on Jan 26, 2005 11:50:11 GMT -5
Unno Narsonist and the other theoriser are both correct, but they haven't got the whole story. "The World is Quiet Here" was explained in TSS.
There is nothing wrong, of course, with having a pledge, and putting into words what you might feel is important in your life as a reminder to yourself as you make your way in the world. If you feel, for instance, that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to a world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of plege proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
Edit: And in terms of the writing of the novel, Snicketfires is correct also.
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Post by Akbar Le Grey on Feb 11, 2005 11:57:27 GMT -5
I thank the people who liked my theory. I just re-discovered this topic and I hope this won't be considered "bumping", since it was on the front page.
Oh and [insert name of person who called me a lsoer wannabe] I'm sorry. I was rather high on sugar and low on I.Q when I was a newbie. Although I still am, I don't think I'm as obnoxious/annoying as I used to be.That letter I wrote,what was I thinking? I deleted it.
Faced with evidence given by the eminent FFWF, I agree that my theory may now seem a little weak. But I still belive the quest of V.F.D was to keep the world a calm,orderly, and yes, quiet place.
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