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Post by dangerouslydapper on Dec 25, 2008 1:07:10 GMT -5
Sorry if this has been discussed. I looked but didn't see any subject titles like this and if it's in the wrong place, please move it. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed that the woman reading the book to her child at the begining of "The lump of coal" looks a lot like Beatrice's silohuette from "The Beatrice letters". Further more, the child she's reading to looks similar to Violet and the chair they're sitting in is yellow, just like the one Klaus remembered spilling ink on. Maybe i'm over anylising, but perhaps Lemony wrote this book a long time ago for Beatrice to read to her kids.
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Post by Dante on Dec 25, 2008 6:44:33 GMT -5
And would that be the ever-popular Baudelaire family dog sitting at the foot of the chair?
The woman's hair is different. "Violet"'s hair is the wrong colour. I think you're reading way too far into it if you think that the book is at all connected to aSoUE, especially through a single illustration, which we don't know how much input Handler had into. Not everything Handler writes as Snicket has to be connected to aSoUE. In fact, outside of aSoUE, none of it is. And I worry that Handler will end up like Agatha Christie, hating the Baudelaires/Poirot for their popularity over anything else he writes in the meantime.
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Post by t on Dec 25, 2008 21:07:01 GMT -5
Perhaps Dante is right. But we'll never know.
Anyway, I agree with you. If "Snicket" would really like to solve the Baudelaire case (to help them), then he would do <i>anything<i> (like writing a book = evidences about the case).
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Post by dangerouslydapper on Dec 25, 2008 21:40:19 GMT -5
Yeah, the dog was the thing I couldn't figure, but hey, dogs come and go all the time and some just aren't that memorable. Anyway, if you want to believe in this theory, consider these tidbits:
1. A babies hair can turn from light brown to dark brown in the span of ten or eleven years. Heck, my brother was blond as a baby and now is a brunette.
2. There are four stockings on the mantle. If "Violet" in the picture is about three or four, that means Klaus is one or two, therefore alive and able to have a stocking.
3. In the finale picture, only two stockings have been filled. Maybe it's because "the Baudelaire parents" aren't as good as they could be *cough* poison darts *cough* and aren't deserving of presents.
And if "Lemony Snicket" wants not to be pigeon-holed he can always write books under his real name. Snicket is a fictional character in the Baudelaire's world and therefore connected to them forever.
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Post by Dante on Dec 26, 2008 3:52:35 GMT -5
Sure, if you want to believe this theory, that's your right. But you don't reap a fine harvest by clutching at straws, and I campaign against over-interpretation wherever possible. And if "Lemony Snicket" wants not to be pigeon-holed he can always write books under his real name. Snicket is a fictional character in the Baudelaire's world and therefore connected to them forever. I'll protest this one. Publication-wise, if inconspicuously, Snicket's pretty clearly cemented himself as the name Daniel Handler writes children's books and stories under. Eh, I guess The Baby in the Manger is borderline, although less so for the fact that only about thirty copies were ever made. But Daniel Handler's books under his own name are squarely in the adult category.
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Post by Ernist on Jan 16, 2009 8:56:27 GMT -5
this could be a hint at more baudelaire books
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Post by Very Funky Disco on Mar 27, 2009 21:36:23 GMT -5
In another topic, hermes had suggested that those books could also be written by Lemony Snicket the character in the ASOUE Universe - but not necessarily the settings of the books themselves be the ASOUE Universe.
After all, it seems unlikely that sentient coal and potato pancakes would exist in the ASOUE Universe. While some things about the universe might seem a little unrealistic, I think there is still a good semblance of realism in the universe.
Upon thinking about it, it does sound like a good theory.
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Post by Christmas Chief on May 20, 2009 15:50:43 GMT -5
If you want to look at it that way, then yes, it is a good theory, but I think its not that significant- to ASOUE, that is.
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