Post by Hermedy on Jan 4, 2005 10:04:31 GMT -5
Geraldine Julienne
Quite a few people seem to think that she’s in V.F.D. The only real evidence for that is that, in the U.A., it was revealed that she was, at one point, preparing to write about V.F.D. in her “Secret Organizations You Should Know About” column, implying that she knew something about V.F.D. However, in her very fangirl-esque letter to Esmé (U.A., 119-120), she confesses that, “Sometimes, in order to make the column more exciting, I write rumors or things I make up, instead of facts.” Also, in the V.F.D. Building Committee transcript (U.A., page 33-47) in which the article us mentioned, one of the Js (remember, there were two, because I was a pronoun, and there are two Js called out on the roll call) says “But how did that terrible reporter discover our location? We stopped blah blah blah etc.” If Geraldine Julienne was in V.F.D., then this comment would not have been made at all, or be followed with replies such as “Well, she is a member, and so knows our codes, disguises, and comes to meetings and such. Yes, I’d say it’s pretty obvious how she found out our location”. To conclude, Geraldine Julienne is not a volunteer – it seems to me more likely that Esmé and Olaf (Esmé in particular, since Geraldine seems to be a fan (and is probably a member of the Esmé Squalor Fan Club (U.A. page 164))) are feeding her false information about the Baudelaires (a direct example of this can be seen in Book 9 (page 272) “Olaf told me that the Baudelaires are responsible [for the burning of Caligari Carnival]!”, and in the beginning of the U.A. (page 5), Lemony writes that “The Daily Punctilio bases its articles on innuendo, a word which here means “people who call up newspapers and tell them things that aren’t necessarily true.””). She’s just an idiot blinded by her admiration for Esmé who got suckered into doing the evil bidding of some vile arsonists.
Quite a few people seem to think that she’s in V.F.D. The only real evidence for that is that, in the U.A., it was revealed that she was, at one point, preparing to write about V.F.D. in her “Secret Organizations You Should Know About” column, implying that she knew something about V.F.D. However, in her very fangirl-esque letter to Esmé (U.A., 119-120), she confesses that, “Sometimes, in order to make the column more exciting, I write rumors or things I make up, instead of facts.” Also, in the V.F.D. Building Committee transcript (U.A., page 33-47) in which the article us mentioned, one of the Js (remember, there were two, because I was a pronoun, and there are two Js called out on the roll call) says “But how did that terrible reporter discover our location? We stopped blah blah blah etc.” If Geraldine Julienne was in V.F.D., then this comment would not have been made at all, or be followed with replies such as “Well, she is a member, and so knows our codes, disguises, and comes to meetings and such. Yes, I’d say it’s pretty obvious how she found out our location”. To conclude, Geraldine Julienne is not a volunteer – it seems to me more likely that Esmé and Olaf (Esmé in particular, since Geraldine seems to be a fan (and is probably a member of the Esmé Squalor Fan Club (U.A. page 164))) are feeding her false information about the Baudelaires (a direct example of this can be seen in Book 9 (page 272) “Olaf told me that the Baudelaires are responsible [for the burning of Caligari Carnival]!”, and in the beginning of the U.A. (page 5), Lemony writes that “The Daily Punctilio bases its articles on innuendo, a word which here means “people who call up newspapers and tell them things that aren’t necessarily true.””). She’s just an idiot blinded by her admiration for Esmé who got suckered into doing the evil bidding of some vile arsonists.