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Post by TheManager on Jan 18, 2006 8:24:17 GMT -5
Dear Reader,
I have found a very small message. In the sentence that says, "O my dear mr snicket," start with O and space eight words. The message would be "O is with me"
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Post by Dante on Jan 18, 2006 8:45:39 GMT -5
Based, I suppose, on the statement in the U.A. transcript that people might forget that the Sebald code had ten words between each coded word, and use eight instead?
Yes, that would certainly be an interesting matter, and one likely to provoke much discussion, were it not for the fact that you miscounted, and included an extra word between "is" and "with."
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Post by lauren on Jan 18, 2006 9:35:16 GMT -5
awww I thought he was on to something ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/253263/images/aKebVqvfXozMvrLoISGi.gif)
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Post by Dante on Jan 18, 2006 10:52:51 GMT -5
I had to go away for a while, but here's the precise transcript, with every word after eight words underlined.
O Mr. Snicket, everything you kept in my home is gone. Your bullfighting costume is gone, along with all of the other disguises you kept with me...
I presume you counted "bullfighting" as two words? If it were so, you would have been right. Unfortunately, "bullfighting" is but a single word, so the message is incorrect. Pity, really, but it would have been rather too random for me to have attached much significance to it anyway. Better luck next time.
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Post by chabo on Feb 19, 2006 6:33:18 GMT -5
i dont get it. what does "O is with me" mean?
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Post by Dante on Feb 19, 2006 7:39:31 GMT -5
It doesn't mean anything, as that message isn't actually in it. However, if it did exist (which, I emphasise, it does not), then presumably it would indicate that O (i.e. Olaf) was with the writer of that letter, who is either the Duchess of Winnipeg or somebody posing as the Duchess of Winnipeg.
Repeat: There is no such message. (I have to repeat this, as some people misinterpret things with breathtaking ease.)
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Post by esmeshomegirl on Feb 26, 2006 3:52:29 GMT -5
Exactly.
However, if bullfighting is written as two words or two words hyphenated in the original script (?) then it would be correct. Someone should check this.
XOXO Christine
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Post by Dante on Feb 26, 2006 3:57:18 GMT -5
However, if bullfighting is written as two words or two words hyphenated in the original script (?) then it would be correct. Someone should check this. By "original script" I presume you mean Handler's original manuscript for the book (as opposed to the book itself, on account of I did check that and anyone can)? There's a fair point, as there are some mistakes in Sebald code elsewhere due to an editor apparently taking every instance of the phrase "sugar bowl" and making it into one word (or possibly vice-versa, I forget). However, we don't really have any way of getting at Handler's original manuscript of the book, plus there's the fact that, even if it was different in the original manuscript, then the entire message would still be incredibly random.
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Post by Lord Vader X on Feb 26, 2006 18:53:52 GMT -5
Well, be it as it may, i think it was confirmed that this was not the Dutchess. When R wrote to Kit, the letter said it was impossible for her to communicate with Mr Snicket. So there would be no reason for a false R to attempt to communicate with L.S., is there?
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Post by Dear Dairy on Mar 4, 2006 20:03:25 GMT -5
Well, be it as it may, i think it was confirmed that this was not the Dutchess. When R wrote to Kit, the letter said it was impossible for her to communicate with Mr Snicket. So there would be no reason for a false R to attempt to communicate with L.S., is there? Two possibilities: 1. False R communicates with LS to give misleading information that will entrap him in some way. 2. "O is with me" (Don't jump my case, Dante, I'm just speculating here) means that the letter is by the real R who is writing misleading information in order to mislead Olaf because he is watching as she writes the letter.
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Post by Lord Vader X on Mar 11, 2006 12:15:28 GMT -5
Ummm. Ok. Misleading is great. But there is no way the Sebald code could be there, only because there is no "ring". I know it said that due to lack of sleep they would forget the number of words in between in the sebald code, but it said nothing saying they would forget the ring altogether.
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Post by Grace on Mar 16, 2006 7:59:30 GMT -5
Somehow I don't think HandlerSnicket would go through all this trouble...but then again, that's me. If we knew how his mind worked, we'd've figured it out a long time ago.
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