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Post by Ennui on Nov 30, 2004 1:44:25 GMT -5
Is the Duchess a genuine duchess?
Well, actually, given her outlandish title, very possibly not. That would explain the King of Arizona too...
Is Lemony Snicket a real writer?
This we cannot contest...because the only qualification for writerhood is to write, and we are reading him.
At least some VFDers have real jobs. Montgomery was of course a respected member of the London Herpetological Society. CM Kornbluth was undoubtably a mechanic.
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Post by Cassandra's Ruins on Dec 2, 2004 6:52:49 GMT -5
I imagine that Justice Strauss is a real judge, and that the Duchess and King of Arizona have made-up titles probably for some disguise.
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Post by SnicketFires on Dec 6, 2004 21:56:12 GMT -5
Is the Duchess a genuine duchess? Well, actually, given her outlandish title, very possibly not. That would explain the King of Arizona too... Is Lemony Snicket a real writer? This we cannot contest...because the only qualification for writerhood is to write, and we are reading him. At least some VFDers have real jobs. Montgomery was of course a respected member of the London Herpetological Society. CM Kornbluth was undoubtably a mechanic. I had a theory that the Herpetological Society was actually VFD. It's here. Laissez-faire means "to let things be", for anyone who doesn't know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faireVarious theorists have applied this term to a somewhat spurious group of VFDers who took neither side in the schism, and refuse to intervene in VFD matters. The Justice may be one of these VFDers, assuming she is in VFD at all. Her judge costume is in the disguise kit, but I'm not sure if that really proves anything. The only laissez-faire quality about Justice that I could see is that she let Olaf charm her into being into her play, and not being convinced out of changing her lines, if that makes sense in the laissez-faire definition at all...
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Post by RockSunner on Dec 21, 2004 2:26:59 GMT -5
Keep following the index for another idea:
laissez-faire philosophy: See moral uncertainty moral uncertainty: See villainy
I think Justice Strauss is a villain, and I doubt she's a real judge. Don't forget "J.S" in TGG sent Poe after the kids.
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Post by Dante on Dec 21, 2004 3:59:22 GMT -5
I think Justice Strauss is a villain, and I doubt she's a real judge. Don't forget "J.S" in TGG sent Poe after the kids. Don't forget: "Many individuals have the same initials, which can lead to much injustice."
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Post by lemonysinlaw on Dec 27, 2004 10:53:29 GMT -5
Just to add to this, Jerome Squalor was also linked to that. And if it truly means "let it be", as you say it does, that would make sense, because both JS's let things be. I.e. Jerome doesn't like to argue, Justice was naive enough to marry Violet and Olaf....makes sense, no?
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Post by q on Dec 27, 2004 19:26:35 GMT -5
I can't help but think that what Sunny said in tGG when the orphans recieved the telegraph CCd to a "JS". She said "Etartsigam," which is "magistrate" backwards. Magistrate is another word for judge, and JS is obviously Justice Strauss's initials...what does Sunny know about the judge? Does she know anything? Or was it a coincidence? Is Justice Strauss really a laissez-faire member of VFD? I would like to know the answers to all of these questions...
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Post by RockSunner on Dec 28, 2004 10:52:34 GMT -5
The Sprats family is also linked to this entry. Carmelita, at least, is more than passively evil, but her parents may be so (spoiling her, for example).
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Post by Dante on Jan 1, 2005 11:46:31 GMT -5
what does Sunny know about the judge? Possibly Overwhelmingly probably, nothing - it could be a clue inserted by the author to give careful readers an insight into the future events of the series.
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Post by Brian on Jan 5, 2005 14:02:08 GMT -5
Yeah, Handler does that a lot.
Wait, this just came to me! Remember that the clue for "injustice" in the activity was what Esme would call a fashionable judge...assuming that Esme was affiliated with Olaf at the time of TBB, Strauss would have had to have been "fashionable" for Esme to give her approval. And therefore she links directly to the word "injustice." Justice Strauss a villain because of this? It's a stretch, but anything's possible.
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Post by lemonysinlaw on Jan 23, 2005 11:02:07 GMT -5
I will agree with FFWF, but that was a good catch, whoever did that. So it was from justice strauss, unless something has happened with Jacques. VFD involves trickery, so maybe Jacques isn't dead...Then again, you practically proved that it was Justice Strauss. Nice work!
EDIT: Reading what RockSunner wrote above; come to think of it, that makes me think about Strauss's side of the schism. Hmmm. She did let them get married, did she not? Then again, it could have been for the reason mentioned in the books; she simply didn't know.
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Post by MagePRant on Jan 31, 2005 21:51:28 GMT -5
The thing about "JS=Justice Strauss" is that Justice is a title, not a first name. It's perfectly possible that her first name begins with a J, or she let te J stand for Justice when she sent the message because everyone calls her Justice Strauss anyway. I don't think she's evil, I just think she's normal, if a little susceptable to stagestriked-ness.
It's possible that Lemony linked Justice Straus to the laissez-faire philosophy because VFD asked her to rule in their favor in the Royal Gardens fire case, which she mentioned she was in charge of. However, Strauss refused to make a decision before hearing the case, thus "letting things be." This might have been a bigger issue if Strauss was somehow involved with VFD beforehand, either as a member or an informant of some kind, or something else.
The reason why Lemony links "laissez-faire" and "villanous" is because if you just let things be, you're not doing anything to make the world better, even a tiny little bit. It's like taking a walk in the park, and passing by a well where a little boy is trapped, then going home without even calling the police.
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