crono288
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Post by crono288 on Mar 7, 2012 12:33:42 GMT -5
Pretty simple image URL this time so no speculation to be gleamed from that.
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Post by Dante on Mar 7, 2012 12:53:16 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this, crono288; I've been out. The last e-mail was sent just over a week ago, so could we be looking at weekly promos? If so, I suspect it's just for a while, as there are a lot of weeks until the book comes out. Maybe these are to tide us over until LSATWQ.com launches properly. I approve of the update rate, anyway, but not of sending them while I'm not around to receive them...
The girl in the picture is, presumably, not Ellington Feint... maybe. I think Ellington is usually a male name. What also strikes me is that this name sounds a lot more original and a lot less like a literary allusion than the vast majority of names in ASoUE; could this be indicative of an atmospheric or writing style change? But it could just be a reference obscure enough for us not to know about it.
The girl's hair is interesting in that it seems to have a gap between the back of her head and her back. I wonder if it's the glimmer of moonlight, or if her back is in shade and she has pigtails? She has two bags - been shopping, or late at school, or on a mission? That this is taking place at night suggests Lemony will also be sneaking around at night at some point, which should be no surprise. Also, this being a mysterious girl apparently associated with Lemony's adventure, the temptation is to suggest that this is Beatrice, but that's a bit tenuous right now. A smile that might have meant anything... is this someone we can trust?
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Mar 7, 2012 12:58:33 GMT -5
Hm....
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Post by B. on Mar 7, 2012 13:00:56 GMT -5
I desperately hope they are weekly now, even for a little while. To add onto what Dante said, maybe those things she is carrying are suitcases? Did the children who were kidnapped from their homes take any possessions with her? Also the line "....smile in the moonlight..." very much suggests to me that this is Lemony's perception of the volunteer/one of the volunteers who came to induct him into VFD. I think we can safely say though that this drawing is of a female, thus probably not Ellington Feint. I'm quite happy to see a new character as well. I hope ATWQ has a good balance of new characters and familiar faces.
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Post by Dante on Mar 7, 2012 13:04:22 GMT -5
We also don't know the age of this person. I've been assuming that they're young from a combination of clothing and the fact that it's a child's drawing, and that sort of drew the connection to a child. I think it looks more like a young person's drawing of another young person than of an adult. But I may be thinking too deeply about it. Also, it occurred to me that since there's a strong link between image and subject line in the previous promo, and since Ellington Feint is kind of a weird name, maybe this person could be Ellington Feint after all? I could see it happening.
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Post by Hermes on Mar 7, 2012 13:10:46 GMT -5
I think she could be Ellington Feint - I've never seen Ellington used as a first name, but surnames can become first names either for boys (Bruce) or for girls (Shirley).
As for the source of the name - 'Ellington' could refer to Duke E, the jazz musician, I suppose. Don't know about 'Feint'. But while names in ASOUE generally have significance, it isn't always an allusion as such; with Denouement, for instance, or Widdershins, it's just a matter of the meaning of the word.
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Post by B. on Mar 7, 2012 13:30:13 GMT -5
maybe this person could be Ellington Feint after all? I could see it happening. If we are using Ellington as a female name, then yes, maybe. If we are considering Ellington a male name, then maybe he has long hair and is Scottish so he's wearing a kilt. Maybe Hermes According to the dictionary 'feint' means 1. a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer. 2. a feigned or assumed appearance: His air of approval was a feint to conceal his real motives. Upon googling the name I found this rather interesting website.
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Post by jman on Mar 7, 2012 13:48:50 GMT -5
Looks like a girl to me. I've never heard of the name "Ellington", so I can't atteest to whether it would be more of a guy's name or girl's name.
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Post by Invisible on Mar 7, 2012 14:07:08 GMT -5
I don't know about you, but that image looks incredibly sinister.
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Post by Dante on Mar 7, 2012 16:00:21 GMT -5
A few more things have occurred to me: First, that Ellington Feint has alphabetical initials, which reminds me of the alphabetical siblings from ASoUE (the Snickets and Denouements), although this may be a coincidence... but watch out for other characters with alphabetical initials. But what this made me realise secondly is that Ellington Feint has both a first name and a last name - something which not that many ASoUE characters have. This seems to suggest either a slight shift in writing style to give more importance to full names, or that EF is rather important as a character. Although I guess we could deduce that anyway... Actually, one further idea: It's not the character's real name. It's a disguised name.
It's also been suggested to me, quite rightly, what these images are for - that is, are they promotional only, or will they be in the book? The first promo was in colour, so if it's in the book it'll have to be rendered in monochrome, which suggests to me that they are promo-only if it was drawn coloured at all to start with. But I wouldn't be surprised to see notes and sketches from Lemony's childhood in WCTBATH.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 7, 2012 16:24:28 GMT -5
The line we're given reads to me like an excerpt from the novel. Do the gaps have significance, or is it just poorly drawn? A rough, quick sketch in a commonplace book? Note she has no feet. Actually, one further idea: It's not the character's real name. It's a disguised name. This occurred to me as well. It fits with the significance of the word "feint." In a supplement, perhaps? But with four books it's probably more likely to be an appendix of sorts, with a To My Kind Editor equivalent, giving hints about the next installment.
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Post by Dante on Mar 7, 2012 16:35:07 GMT -5
The line we're given reads to me like an excerpt from the novel. Yes, I assumed it was from the novel, too.
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Post by B. on Mar 7, 2012 17:12:58 GMT -5
I think it's a line from the novel also. I think there will more than likely be some sort of foreshadowing at the end of each novel leading onto the next book.. Of course it will probably be considerably different from the kind editor letters and the preview illustrations. This illustration was probably drawn previously to the seahorse picture. This picture of the woman looks as though it was drawn by someone who was around five years old at least. The seahorse looks as though it was drawn afterwards.
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Post by bryan on Mar 7, 2012 19:24:04 GMT -5
It only occurred to me that these may be THE wrong questions (although I guess that was obvious...). I doubt they'll be the book titles, but might they be chapter titles perhaps?
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Post by jman on Mar 7, 2012 19:45:02 GMT -5
Could the name be an anagram? I couldn't figure anthing out...
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