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Post by RockSunner on Sept 20, 2006 21:40:30 GMT -5
Since we're not having much luck anagramming BRAE MAN, my next approach is to look for literary references.
"The Bloody Brae" (note the Snicket-like title) is a one-act play in verse by John Hewitt, an Ulster poet. In it, a soldier named John Hill seeks forgiveness for his part in a massacre that took place in Islandmaggie, in northern Ireland in the 1600's. In the play, he speaks to a female ghost of one of the victims. I don't know if the woman's name is given in the play. I''ll try to find out.
Now, "John" is the equivalent of Jacques in French. And Hill can be translated "Brae." This suggests to me that Jacques Snicket is the Brae man, and Beatrice's co-star. His loyalties may be suspect -- at least Fernald suggested as much one time in TGG.
Here's another poem, not quite as fitting, but still possible:
The Battle of Prestonpans
The Chevalier, being void of fear, Did march up Birsle brae, man, And through Tranent ere he did stent, As fast as he could gae, man; ... The volunteers prick'd up their ears, And vow gin they were crouse, man! But when the bairns saw't turn to earn'st, There werena worth a louse, man.
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Post by captainspam on Sept 21, 2006 2:55:31 GMT -5
The only anagram I can think of is BRA NAME and that makes no sense.
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 21, 2006 7:42:59 GMT -5
The only anagram I can think of is BRA NAME and that makes no sense. Aha, it must be the evil Count Playtex! ;D
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Post by jpgr007 on Sept 21, 2006 9:25:59 GMT -5
Interesting research Rocksunner.
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 22, 2006 7:47:56 GMT -5
I dug around at the library yesterday, but so far I haven't been able to locate a copy of "The Bloody Brae". I hope someone else on the forum can pick up on this.
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Post by jman on Sept 22, 2006 16:24:20 GMT -5
Well since we know that TE will have a some-what biblical theme, I came up with ABRAM from some of the letters. In the Bible, Abram was the father of the Hebrue people, God's chosen nation.
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Post by Sora on Sept 23, 2006 0:19:15 GMT -5
This is the only thing I can find that may be related to BRAE MAN.
A charming novel of old Hollywood, first loves, and man with a touch of magic A mysterious young man named Brae Orrack arrives in Venice, California, in 1928, claiming to be a magic man who can turn stones to bees. Brae also comes carrying a curse. He says he will die unless he can find true love---and find it soon. Is he a con man or is he telling the truth? With Brae, it’s hard to tell. Like Elwood P. Dowd and Harvey, Brae, with his old-fashioned charm and ease, invites the reader to embrace just a little bit of magic.
Desperate for rent money, Brae agrees to become the chauffeur-bodyguard for a spoiled young actor named Frank (Gary) Cooper, whose womanizing ways always seem to land him in trouble. Entering the glamorous world of early Hollywood, Brae falls for a gorgeous, spunky world traveler named Nell Devereaux, who also happens to be the lover of a powerful Cuban dictator. Finally, he has found the love that will save him. Or has he?
Brae quickly learns that love does not come easily. New York gangsters, bootleggers, Hollywood producers, and homicidal dictators conspire to complicate Brae’s life at every turn. He befriends a young hood named George Raft, saves the life of movie star Clara Bow, and outwits a family of killers in Key West, Florida. He deftly maneuvers his way out of all sorts of life-threatening situations, but time is running out and Brae must somehow win Nell and save his life. Yet even in Hollywood, skepticism of a “magic” man runs high, and Brae battles conventional reality---not to mention his own impending mortality---at every turn. Ron Base writes a witty, charming tale of a man desperately in search of his destiny. Magic Man is part fable and part adventure, a love story about the impossibility of love.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Sept 25, 2006 22:47:08 GMT -5
Sounds like an interesting book. Who is the author? When was it published?
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Post by forgivesusan on Oct 7, 2006 22:21:31 GMT -5
You do realize that the TBL anagram, in addition to spelling out "Baticeer sank" also spells "Brae in casket" ?
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Post by sushi on Oct 8, 2006 3:55:21 GMT -5
The anagram also spells a snicket brae or snicket a brae which could be a reference to Jaques being a brae like RockSunner said before
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Post by SnicketFires on Nov 4, 2006 22:51:50 GMT -5
I'm expanding this thread to a general BL literary references thread.
I've found at least one. "I will love you as a wet paper towel loves to be crumpled up into a ball and thrown at a bathroom ceiling..." (LS to BB #5)
Daniel Handler often uses this situation. He also uses it in The Basic Eight: "In second grade, Sara Crain and I had stood in the girls' bathroom, shrieking with laughter as we discovered that wet paper towels, soaked at the sink and wadded into balls, will stick to the ceiling like moist stalactites..." (Tuesday, October 19th. Or, page 210 in the Allison and Busby edition)
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Post by thedoctororwell on Nov 5, 2006 13:26:34 GMT -5
At one point, Handler mentions something like "I will love you as the expensive scarf loves being stuck in the escalator..." Wow, it REALLY looks like the circumstances of Isadora Duncan's death ! She was strangled by her scarf, stuck in the wheels of a car !
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