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Post by Shelly on Aug 3, 2005 22:18:34 GMT -5
yes, you could be right... wow!!! all these theories are well-thought! Well-done!!!! *Applause*
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Post by starfireandsakura on Aug 24, 2005 21:42:08 GMT -5
I always thought that photo to be of Snicket and his mother. On one of the other pages (I don't have my UA with me) there is what looks like a man fishing, and I presumed that was his father. But I have absolutely 0% proof on these points other than the title of that chapter. I imagined that the picture of the man was when they were retrieving Josephine's life jacket. I could be totally off, though. I'm fairly certain that Beatrice is the Baudelaire's mother, merely because what both Lemony and Klaus said. Lemony said something about whistling Mozart's symphony or something like that (I can't remember), and Klaus said (in TWW) that the Baudelaire's mother could do that as well. I'm assuming this has been discussed many times before, however.
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Post by Sixteen on Aug 25, 2005 3:48:34 GMT -5
But you have to remember that the author likes red herrings.
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Post by lapetitefille on Aug 26, 2005 13:23:17 GMT -5
but it's very hard to tell with only the first initall that could be a b that we dont know, what about the pictur in the disguise part of the book where there is a voulenter going by B who allters herself to look like a truck (page 105)
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Post by SnicketFires on Aug 31, 2005 14:54:09 GMT -5
I always thought that photo to be of Snicket and his mother. On one of the other pages (I don't have my UA with me) there is what looks like a man fishing, and I presumed that was his father. But I have absolutely 0% proof on these points other than the title of that chapter. Fishing man: page 201. Somebody once mentioned, ages ago, that this man could possibly be Ike. I've also wondered about the woman on page 105. We haven't come across any other volunteers with a name starting with "B" (Bruce and the unknown subject on the Family Tree excluded).
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Post by Sixteen on Sept 2, 2005 7:10:06 GMT -5
but it's very hard to tell with only the first initall that could be a b that we dont know, what about the pictur in the disguise part of the book where there is a voulenter going by B who allters herself to look like a truck (page 105) I don't think B ever disguised herself as a truck. What was said in the book was "she is now completely unrecognisable" and there is a picture of an old man bearing no resembelance to "B". Then it says "especially with an old man standing in front of her". The joke is you think she has disguised herself well but then you realise you can't actually see her because the old man is standing there.
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Post by Dante on Sept 2, 2005 7:12:02 GMT -5
Quite a few people think that she actually disguised herself as the truck, though... Especially since it's the same truck from the back photographs of the U.A., the one which Handler said was to carry a coffin.
Edit: And I can only think of one female B., and she's probably in a coffin right now.
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Post by Sixteen on Sept 2, 2005 7:13:25 GMT -5
But I think that's meant to be Snicket's coffin, so it appears several times throughout the photographs.
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Post by Ennui on Sept 8, 2005 9:18:34 GMT -5
I tend to the view that the actress is a substitute photo. Beatrice is an ideal of beauty and tragedy whom men have loved and lamented ever since the days of the Tuscan bard. As such she can be given a picture only in the mind.
I, too, would love to see her 200-page book renouncing Lemony, or parts of it. I doubt we'll ever get it, but I fully intend to write it if not...
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Post by Antenora on Sept 8, 2005 14:29:15 GMT -5
That'd be an interesting fan-fiction, yes. Maybe Lemony could give us an excerpt from Beatrice's book in book 12, or in that hypothetical tying-up-loose-ends book he said he might write.
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Post by Brian on Sept 8, 2005 20:41:43 GMT -5
That "book" was from The Miserable Mill, wasn't it?
For whatever reason, that particular Beatrice tangent has always annoyed me. Perhaps it just didn't appear sensible enough. I don't know why. I mean, a two-hundred-page book??
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Post by Ennui on Sept 9, 2005 1:34:11 GMT -5
It just shows that Beatrice, too, is a writer, an idea which I'm attracted to for several reasons.
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Post by Sixteen on Sept 9, 2005 10:06:22 GMT -5
But it makes you wonder if there is more to Snicket than meets the eye.
I mean, 200 pages on his faults? There has to be something seriously wrong with this guy. Or at least something that B has misunderstood.
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Post by Ennui on Sept 9, 2005 10:08:55 GMT -5
Either that, or Beatrice has a rather elaborate prose composition.
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Post by Sixteen on Sept 9, 2005 10:15:36 GMT -5
Unless the book is written in the same style as "Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer", I can't see that being true.
And if it was written like IL:LE then I don't think Snicket, a writer himself would be happy.
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