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Post by Very Funky Disco on Oct 12, 2009 7:00:12 GMT -5
If your theory is that Heimlich Hospital was actually named after Henry Heimlich, then the series would have to be set at least during the 1970s - since I don't think Henry Heimlich was that well-known until he invented the Heimlich maneuver in 1974. Also, the computer that was described in The Austere Academy sounds like something that didn't exist prior to the '70s.
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Post by Isadora on Feb 22, 2010 11:13:42 GMT -5
I don't really think the series took place on a 'regular time', it's more of a mixture of different eras I agree.
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Post by Fiona Fanboy on Jan 2, 2011 5:17:15 GMT -5
I imagine it being late 2003-end of 2004. This is because of the Bush & Cheney reference in The Slippery Slope.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 2, 2011 6:33:24 GMT -5
I imagine it being late 2003-end of 2004. This is because of the Bush & Cheney reference in The Slippery Slope. While that time is certainly a valid possibility, I think the Bush/Cheney reference isn't enough evidence as it was more of an allusion than it was an indication of an actual time period. That is, it was more of a joke for the reader and not really part of the context.
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Post by Dante on Jan 5, 2011 8:30:39 GMT -5
There's a point at which Sunny's vocabulary stops being made up of hidden jokes and starts being legitimately decipherable as actual mangled English, but I don't think TSS is it.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 5, 2011 9:19:55 GMT -5
I think TSS is the place where it starts being made up, consistently, of hidden jokes - before that it's largely just gibberish. The jokes never go away, but you get quite a lot of English in TPP and TE. (Of course there was always some - 'cake' in TBB, and lest that be dismissed as part of the oddity of that book, 'shark' in TAA.)
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Post by Seymour Glass on Feb 11, 2011 13:59:37 GMT -5
I think that if you want to line up events in the books with the publication schedule in the real world, you have to make Lemony older than Daniel. Lemony had left school, so was over eighteen, when he was engaged to Beatrice. That was at least fifteen years before ASOUE, probably more (to give time for the breakup and Beatrice's becoming engaged to Bertrand). So he's at least in his mid-thirties when ASOUE takes place, while Daniel was only twenty-nine when the first book was published. Also, you might argue that it's true in-story that Lemony is older than Daniel, since from TUA it looks as if Jacques, who is probably just a couple of years older than Lemony, was involved in recruiting Daniel as a boy. As for Lemony being a year older than Beatrice, I think I know where this comes from. In the publicity for TBL, we were told that one of the shocking revelations in that book was 'Beatrice was only ten'. People read that as meaning that Beatrice was ten when Lemony met her, and we know that he was eleven then, so he's a year older. But actually, the revelation turns out to refer to young Beatrice, and her age when she met Lemony, many years later. I agree with this post. Lemony and Daniel are two different people in ASOUE universe. If your theory is that Heimlich Hospital was actually named after Henry Heimlich, then the series would have to be set at least during the 1970s - since I don't think Henry Heimlich was that well-known until he invented the Heimlich maneuver in 1974. Also, the computer that was described in The Austere Academy sounds like something that didn't exist prior to the '70s. It can take place as early as the 60s because Henry Heimlich introduced the Heimlich valve in 1963. Reason for Editing: Moderator Edit: Merging double-post.
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