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Post by Dante on Mar 3, 2011 4:24:59 GMT -5
During the murky hours of the night, an associate of Mr. Snicket's delivered the following to me:  DISCUSS. |
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Post by blakegriplingph on Mar 3, 2011 4:43:59 GMT -5
Nice. I guess it's been quite an honour to participate in the celebrations. ;D
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Mar 3, 2011 6:09:18 GMT -5
EPIC. My love for him just multiplied. ^^
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 3, 2011 6:16:51 GMT -5
That is awesome--and quite a quick reply. So he's completed the first volume? But what is the paper underneath it meant to read?
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Post by Invisible on Mar 3, 2011 6:29:03 GMT -5
*fangirl squee, has multiple heart attacks*
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Post by Dante on Mar 3, 2011 6:50:19 GMT -5
But what is the paper underneath it meant to read? I did some work on the image, matching up fonts and letters to it. For the second line, there's too much missing to tell; it obviously begins "Who Could," but the last word is nearly impossible to guess, since we only have a few pixels of the letter before the last "r" and no other contextual words to guess it from. The penultimate letter could be a, c, g, q, r, s, u, v, w, x, y, z. Although obviously some of these are more likely than others. The first line is easier, though. Judging from the few fragments we get at the edges, I'm pretty sure - not 100%, but this would fit - that the top line is meant to read "The First Children." |
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Post by Emma “Emmz” Squalor on Mar 3, 2011 9:50:49 GMT -5
Wow, that reply arrived quicker than Jerome at the grand opening of a new necktie shop. ;D And what a sweet, and very quirky, note. You can really picture Mr. Handler/Snicket hiding underneath his bed with commonplace book and pen in hand!
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Post by Hermes on Mar 3, 2011 11:29:05 GMT -5
Oh! Oh! Oh! This is amazingly amazing. It is such a privilege to hear from him in this way. The first line is easier, though. Judging from the few fragments we get at the edges, I'm pretty sure - not 100%, but this would fit - that the top line is meant to read "The First Children." I would read it as 'The First Question' (which would naturally lead into the question 'Who could.....') So he's completed the first volume? I don't think so - he has paused in his completion of it, which implies he's still in process of completing it. |
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Post by littlelaurence on Mar 3, 2011 11:49:29 GMT -5
This is quite a nice thing to receive. I would read it as 'The First Question' (which would naturally lead into the question 'Who could.....') That's what I saw it as too. |
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Post by Leanora Crowe on Mar 3, 2011 12:05:09 GMT -5
Wow! How wonderful! What an honor to receive such a message from Lemony.
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Post by Dante on Mar 3, 2011 12:21:42 GMT -5
I would read it as 'The First Question' (which would naturally lead into the question 'Who could.....') Good call; I checked this in Paint, and the two overlap perfectly. For some reason, when I was thinking up rounded capitals, Q slipped my mind and I was stuck on C and G. Which answers our own first question, I think, but then the second becomes: What is the last line of the first question supposed to be? If we can figure out some possible candidates, we can get closer to guessing what the question itself is, although I'm sure we'll find out for ourselves before long. Another question is whether, since this is the first in what are apparently a series of questions, whether this is planning for some kind of campaign of teasers, although my first thought was that we were dealing with titles of some sort. |
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 3, 2011 15:28:39 GMT -5
The way the two overlap, along with the lighting, gives me the impression that this was supposedly photographed over Handler's workspace, and the paper under it has something to do with what he has been working on. I think we may well be working with some sort of title, since the "Could" is capitalized.
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Post by Dante on Mar 3, 2011 15:43:59 GMT -5
The way the two overlap, along with the lighting, gives me the impression that this was supposedly photographed over Handler's workspace, and the paper under it has something to do with what he has been working on. I think we may well be working with some sort of title, since the "Could" is capitalized. I've been playing around with it a bit more. I've been trying to match up various potential sentences to the length of the hidden sentence, because I have the same font and can set it to the same size, but all of them come up about half a character short or long. Because it also looks to me like, in this particular font, every character is the same size, it seems there might be some image distortion due to the angle of the photograph or curvature of the document or something which makes it hard to tell exactly how long the message is meant to be, though... But I think that, between "Who Could " (including the space), and the ? at the end, there are either twenty or twenty-one characters. So if we can think up some plausible words ending in R, we might be able to piece together some possibilities. |
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Post by Hermes on Mar 3, 2011 16:28:56 GMT -5
I'm thinking this may actually be something from the book (otherwise it's a teaser for a teaser, which seems a bit extreme). The book might be structured around a series of questions - as TUA is, at least in theory - and this is the first of them.
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Post by Dante on Mar 3, 2011 16:35:52 GMT -5
The book is supposed to be "an investigation." Maybe it takes that conceit more to heart on a formal level than the Baudelaire case did. Although my expectation is for something formally like that, another series of, for want of a better term, adventure novels.
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