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Post by The Man With Hair But No Beard on Mar 22, 2007 22:42:23 GMT -5
Pages 161 to 174 in LSUA contain excerpts from other books (some fictional, some real) which Lemony Snicket has decided to keep in his commonplace book. Many contain underlined passages which are then compiled on page 175 as a "count" of Olaf's henchmen. The Count's count is questionable at best. \ On page 170, however, there is an excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells," supposedly taken from The Coded Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. Another passage from the same poem is found on page 173, the only case of double-excerption in the chapter. The next page, 174, contains a short bit from The Littlest Elf, also referencing ringing bells. Finally, on page 165 (near the chapter's beginning) there is a minute passage from a movie review of Zombies In The Snow, which makes another reference to the Sebald Code. I'm positive that the presence of the ringings indicates a Sebald Code message. I have tried every possible combination and approach I can think of, but am unable to discover any kind of coherent message. If anyone here has deciphered this, I'd be very happy to hear about it.
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Post by Dante on Mar 23, 2007 3:11:48 GMT -5
The U.A. was rearranged multiple times before it was published, and the page numbers in the index don't always correspond to what they're supposed to in that section. If there was ever Sebald Code in that section, the rearrangement of the extracts has probably messed it up, although you might find some profit in rearranging things to fit in with the index. I personally doubt there's any code there, though; it'd be hard to pick extracts from books that are both relevant and can be squashed coincidentally into Sebald Code, and I expect the presence of Sebald indicators is intended more as a contribution to the metafictional mythology of the series and to consequently highlight the significance of the passages given.
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