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Post by Dante on Aug 8, 2009 3:20:50 GMT -5
Format it a bit and submit it to me, and I'll add that as an amendment to the original TSS SunnySpeak document. Nice work, Hermes.
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Post by alexandre on Aug 3, 2015 13:10:02 GMT -5
I'm sorry if this isn't the correct topic but since you discussed the SS, I assumed it would be a good place ?
In chapter 3, I noticed a couple of errors : the word "thoroughout" and "than" (when it should be then) - at least I think they're errors (english isn't my mothertongue)
I guessed it was a code but wouldn't couldn't find other errors to make up a sentence ? So maybe my english si just poor, maybe they're just errors or maybe you've already deciphered this code ?
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Aug 3, 2015 22:49:52 GMT -5
Maybe you can give us more details about it? Like, pages or the sentence where you found it?
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Post by Agathological on Aug 4, 2015 11:37:53 GMT -5
Since I have just finished the audio book I feel this is the right place to mention something that has been troubling me. How on earth do the Baudelaies pull a toboggan up something that would be almost certainly vertical. Esme would fall off or be dangling from it. Also raises the question, how do you slide down it?
The book is almost implying its on a steep gradient, but one that a toboggan can still cling too. But I don't think a waterfall could freeze like that...
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Post by gliquey on Aug 4, 2015 15:38:37 GMT -5
Since I have just finished the audio book I feel this is the right place to mention something that has been troubling me. How on earth do the Baudelaies pull a toboggan up something that would be almost certainly vertical. Esme would fall off or be dangling from it. Also raises the question, how do you slide down it? The book is almost implying its on a steep gradient, but one that a toboggan can still cling too. But I don't think a waterfall could freeze like that... Both the US and UK covers of TSS seem to show the waterfall is very bumpy. I think we just have to think Esme was holding on very tightly, or apply a bit of suspension of disbelief. The sliding down it raises a very interesting point, though. If we assume the waterfall is basically vertical, then the Baudelaires can't possibly have gone up it on the toboggan; if we assume the waterfall is bumpy and has lots of ridges everywhere, then the Baudelaires can't possibly have gone down on the toboggan. Thinking about it, the waterfall doesn't really seem to make much sense. |
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Post by alexandre on Aug 5, 2015 10:18:00 GMT -5
Maybe you can give us more details about it? Like, pages or the sentence where you found it? I'm sorry, I figured the UK and US version pages would be different so it would be confusing and useless sorry sorry ... I don't have the book at the bar I'm right now, trying to sneak wifi but I'll try to find the reference asap ! In the meantime, it's a few pages into the third chapter, when Snicket is writing about how frustrating it is to be told "I'll give you a reason to be mad" because if ou are crying than (then !) you already have a good reason... ? |
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Post by bandit on Aug 5, 2015 13:43:14 GMT -5
Yep, these appear to be typos. Shame on the editor. It was true that she had been crying for most of the day, thoroughout a long drive ... It is always tedious when someone says that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying than you already have something to cry about ... |
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Post by alexandre on Aug 5, 2015 15:21:43 GMT -5
Thank you for taking the time to search it out !
I was sort of expecting a code à la Wide Window, but hidden... Too bad ! Thanks again !
(And by the way, i love those topics, each page is super long and for some reason, they don't go blank once I get out of wifi reach. That gives me the opportunity to enjoy them wherever I go ! )
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Aug 6, 2015 6:17:19 GMT -5
Thank you for taking the time to search it out ! I was sort of expecting a code à la Wide Window, but hidden... Too bad ! Thanks again ! Yes, it's always a bit of a disappointment when something in a world with so many hidden things turns out to be exactly what it appears. |
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Post by Dante on Aug 6, 2015 11:27:40 GMT -5
Regarding the incline of the slippery slope, I would suggest that Handler's sense of physical space and how the characters relate to it is often somewhat... off-kilter. I couldn't explain to you the exact structure of the submarine Carmelita, nor account for how an entire library's worth of books was smuggled away in a single wagon and concealed in a single cupboard.
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