Post by wingalls on Sept 20, 2006 17:16:57 GMT -5
Has anyone worked out any definite timelines concerning Lemony Snicket and the Series of Unfortunate Events series?
How much time has elapsed between Book the First and Book the Twelfth?
How old was Lemony Snicket when:
- he "joined" the VFD?
- he wrote for The Daily Punctilio?
- the VFD schism occured?
- he proposed to Beatrice?
It would be nice to be able to represent timelines visually in this forum. Anyone have a good idea as to how best to do that?
I was re-reading The Penultimate Peril when I was struck by something that Kit Snicket said. She claimed to be four years old at the time of the schism.
In The Unauthorized Autobiography, Snicket provides a picture of a three-to-five years old, (my estimate), to show the age he was when he was taken by VFD.
Also in TUA he says that his mother expected to find three young children waiting for her at home.
In The Beatrice Letters, Snicket appears to be eleven (no, I don't believe it was a disguise), in the first letter to Beatrice.
Taken together, this would suggest that Kit Snicket was not born before Lemony was inducted into the VFD.
So what does this mean in relation to Question 5 and Question 12 (TBL LS to BB #5)? It would appear that Lemony had three siblings. Jaques, Kit, and an unamed third. Perhaps questions 5 and 12 were specific to which of Lemony's siblings were VFD members.
In The Unauthorized Autobiographt, the transcript of the meeting of the VFD Building Committee, (which seems to have taken place at the time of the schism), has a J, K, and an S in attendance but also mentions a J, K, S and B as neophytes - a word that means here that they were new to VFD and still subject to monthly examinations. At the time of the schizm, were Jacques, Lemony, and Beatrice still neophytes, or full-fledged members? What about Kit?
The transcript also mentions the "Secret Organizations You Should Know About" column in The Daily Puntilio. This means that the schism took place after Lemony was fired as drama critic of TDP. This puts the LS to BB #3 pre-schism, although at that time there was already a reason to "protect our volunteers".
Sample timeline:
-- LS(3-5) joins VFD
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-- LS(11) meets BB
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-- LS checks obituary spellings for TDP
-- The Duchess of Winnipeg (R's mother) dies
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-- LS fired from TDP
-- G starts "Secret Org ..." column
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-- Schism
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Does this look awkward?
Moderator Edit: Quadruple posts merged.
How much time has elapsed between Book the First and Book the Twelfth?
How old was Lemony Snicket when:
- he "joined" the VFD?
- he wrote for The Daily Punctilio?
- the VFD schism occured?
- he proposed to Beatrice?
It would be nice to be able to represent timelines visually in this forum. Anyone have a good idea as to how best to do that?
I was re-reading The Penultimate Peril when I was struck by something that Kit Snicket said. She claimed to be four years old at the time of the schism.
In The Unauthorized Autobiography, Snicket provides a picture of a three-to-five years old, (my estimate), to show the age he was when he was taken by VFD.
Also in TUA he says that his mother expected to find three young children waiting for her at home.
In The Beatrice Letters, Snicket appears to be eleven (no, I don't believe it was a disguise), in the first letter to Beatrice.
Taken together, this would suggest that Kit Snicket was not born before Lemony was inducted into the VFD.
So what does this mean in relation to Question 5 and Question 12 (TBL LS to BB #5)? It would appear that Lemony had three siblings. Jaques, Kit, and an unamed third. Perhaps questions 5 and 12 were specific to which of Lemony's siblings were VFD members.
In The Unauthorized Autobiographt, the transcript of the meeting of the VFD Building Committee, (which seems to have taken place at the time of the schism), has a J, K, and an S in attendance but also mentions a J, K, S and B as neophytes - a word that means here that they were new to VFD and still subject to monthly examinations. At the time of the schizm, were Jacques, Lemony, and Beatrice still neophytes, or full-fledged members? What about Kit?
The transcript also mentions the "Secret Organizations You Should Know About" column in The Daily Puntilio. This means that the schism took place after Lemony was fired as drama critic of TDP. This puts the LS to BB #3 pre-schism, although at that time there was already a reason to "protect our volunteers".
Sample timeline:
-- LS(3-5) joins VFD
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-- LS(11) meets BB
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|
|
|
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-- LS checks obituary spellings for TDP
-- The Duchess of Winnipeg (R's mother) dies
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|
-- LS fired from TDP
-- G starts "Secret Org ..." column
|
|
-- Schism
|
|
Does this look awkward?
Moderator Edit: Quadruple posts merged.