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Post by TheManager on Aug 2, 2006 17:04:36 GMT -5
As you can see on the back image, there is a piece of wood that what makes out the word Beatrice.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 17:06:08 GMT -5
Oooo! When did they add the back view? That wasn't there earlier. This definitely is linked to The End. The poster shows the ship wreck. I can see Klaus' glasses and Violet's ribbon in the wreckage. The one board seems to say "BEATRICE" on it.
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Post by katekor on Aug 2, 2006 17:07:58 GMT -5
The way they put it though, it makes it sound like this is just going to make everything even more confusing!
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Post by Phoebonica on Aug 2, 2006 17:10:04 GMT -5
Arrgh, I wish I could read that handwriting.
Maybe the "other Beatrice" was a boat, not a person. Hey, it makes as much sense as anything else...
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 17:13:07 GMT -5
On the back cover, the first part says "My Kind Editor" at the top of a routing slip. The rest seems to say "Top secret - Only for readers ________ interested in the Baudelaires __________ (I can't make out the rest except for "With all due respect, Lemony Snicket")
Use the magnifier on your computer and it helps a bit. (Accessories .. Accessibility)
The punch-out letters: It looks like the K on the page is actually punched out and the black is the facing page. I bet when you put the K page back over the letter, the words that can be seen create a secret message.
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Post by Phoebonica on Aug 2, 2006 17:19:10 GMT -5
"Deeply interested in the Baudelaire case", I think. And then "How I pity those readers".
The letter seems to start with "I have found you at last", but I can't make out any more than that, or who it's to.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 17:32:43 GMT -5
"Dear _____" a short name. We probably won't be able to decipher much more than that. They've made it small on purpose.
The back also seems to have some sort of strap or ribbon or book mark attached to it.
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Post by SnicketFires on Aug 2, 2006 20:10:11 GMT -5
The pages don't look like normal pages. It seems we will get some sort of fold-out envelopes or something. And what's with the extra book and poster? The pages fold out "accordian-style": ( Page 8 of this thread. ) Actually, we've had the news that Beatrice could be more than one person/thing for a while now, if you chose to believe it. Please visit the Huge Beatrice Clue?? thread. The back letter looks like: "To My Kind Editor, (checklist thing) Top secret - only for readers deeply associated [with?] the Baudelaire case. How I pity those readers. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket."
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 20:22:28 GMT -5
Believing Handler's enigmatic remarks at book signings is iffy at best. Now it's official.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Aug 3, 2006 1:28:40 GMT -5
I posted this info before in "The End: Official Information and Speculation," but it really belongs here. Unfortunately, I don't know how to post a link to the page, or how to move the post, so here's the info again: www.griffinandsabine.com/Catalog/bantock.htmlWonderful pictures there! After reading the book summaries, I can see why DH would make a connection between "Griffin and Sabine" and TBL. I can also understand now why TBL is so expensive, even though it has such a low page-count.
Here's the short course:
Griffin & Sabine This is the book that started the Nick Bantock obsession. The story is told through the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. Since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel, appealing to the poet and artist in everyone. It sounds like TBL will be a tribute to Nick Bantock, in the same way the LSUA was a tribute to W. G. Sebald. I wonder if Handler will name a character after Bantock, as he did with Sebald. The Griffin and Sabine books sound wonderful, too. I'd love to read them. *sigh* So many books, so little money . . .
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Post by Dante on Aug 5, 2006 11:04:23 GMT -5
I'm thinking of getting a Griffin & Sabine box set for my birthday or Christmas, assuming I remember to ask for it and assuming my parents can get one.
Anyway, in other news: Blah blah blah, generic complaint about everything happening while I'm away, you know the drill. Two Beatrices? Depends how it's done. Could be good, could not be good. Depends how well it's tied into the Beatrice allusions in the past books, and how well it's done. Also, I'll forgive there not being new artwork on the Egmont edition of The End because the TBL art looks incredibly good and I can't wait to see it.
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Post by s on Aug 5, 2006 11:14:32 GMT -5
Dear Dairy, your link isn't working. Is the page gone, or is the link faulty?
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Post by Dante on Aug 5, 2006 11:37:44 GMT -5
Just a problem with a copy-pasted link; I've fixed it, Dear Dairy, I hope you don't mind.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Aug 5, 2006 18:23:24 GMT -5
Thanks, Dante. I wouldn't have known how to fix it.
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Post by Dante on Aug 6, 2006 3:27:30 GMT -5
Have you read any of the "About the Book" blurbs? Not bn.com or amazon, but some of the stores listed on lemonysnicket.com. They are obviously referring to The Ominous Omnibus. That's strange. A bunch of online booksellers I've seen use the OOmnibus synopsis as some kind of placeholder for any future aSoUE book, although I haven't the faintest idea why. Anyway, speculation. The removable booklet seems to be the letters themselves, so perhaps the main body of the book is the fold-out, um, evidence arrangement table or something. The front poster, with the bat, seems to have part of one of those rolling paper banners visible on it, so it may have writing on it, or it may be something else, but I'm wagering that's a picture of Beatrice's grave, or something in a similarly grim setting. The second poster, as noted, is almost certainly (I'm so neurotic) a picture of the shipwreck, and it looks darn good. It does seem like that one plank of wood says Beatrice on it, but why? I shouldn't have thought it'd be the name of Olaf's boat, since that was actually some kind of giant toy bought for Carmelita. Two Beatrices - one alive, one dead, perhaps? This would be a good get-out for the apparently contradictory Beatrice evidence, and the way some of it points two ways. Ha, it would be quite funny if the people who say Beatrice is the Baudelaire mother, and the people who say she isn't, were both right.
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