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Post by Dante on Mar 11, 2012 14:07:12 GMT -5
That would cause the question to take on a slightly metafictional aspect, with its chief thrust being directed at returning readers rather than existing wholly in the story itself. "Who is Ellington Feint?" I.e., that you already know?
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Post by Tiago James Squalor on Mar 11, 2012 16:58:41 GMT -5
Exactly.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 11, 2012 19:38:02 GMT -5
There's certainly a number of ways to read into "wrong questions;" I wonder how far Snicket will take that theme. I'll be expecting a play on "Is this a question?" and similar paradoxes.
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Post by JTB on Mar 12, 2012 10:09:07 GMT -5
An interesting thought: While I was perusing my copy of LSUA, I noticed Lemony's note concerning the chapter titles on the Contents page. It reads:
Notice the beginning thought: these are simply not the proper questions.
Now we have an example of LS clearly distinguishing between "right" and "wrong" questions.
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Post by Dante on Mar 12, 2012 11:32:50 GMT -5
The original chapter questions in the U.A. were more like a list of commonly asked questions about ASoUE, not questions relevant to the story of Lemony's life as told in the material given in the chapters, although the link was still there. But ATWQ isn't about the right questions either. I think there are many kinds of wrong question in this universe, which we really need to get a respectable name for.
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Post by Strangely on Mar 13, 2012 16:30:49 GMT -5
It looks like she's carrying buckets... I'm a bit reminded of Prufrock prep and the bucket of luminous paint and what looks like a bit of moonlight reflecting in her hair.
Interestingly these pictures so far look like something you might find doodled in a student's notebook.
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Post by JTB on Mar 13, 2012 16:38:45 GMT -5
Interestingly these pictures so far look like something you might find doodled in a student's notebook. I can only hope this thought is correct. I love it!
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Post by B. on Mar 13, 2012 16:44:43 GMT -5
More over to the subject of the promotions, we should hopefully be receiving the next promotion soon. My money is on Thursday, because we had the first promotion of a Tuesday and the next on a Wednesday, eight days later from the first. So the third one will be nine days later, then forth one ten days later etc, until the hopefully get a website up and running. But of course, we'll need a third promotion before we can fully determine a pattern of some sort.
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Post by Hermes on Mar 13, 2012 17:45:01 GMT -5
I wonder if they may be coming weekly, with the first slightly out of sync because they hadn't taken the leap day into account.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 13, 2012 19:32:47 GMT -5
That's a reasonable idea, seeing as they must have planned this at least a few months in advance.
I wondered briefly if the mail would follow a Who What When Where Why How pattern, but that would only allow for six weeks of material, which would mean a website would be up seven months or so before the actual book. Assuming, that is, they put one up shortly after the end of the Snicketmail.
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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 1:29:17 GMT -5
Ellington Feint is Hangfire/Armstrong Feint's daughter in ATWQ. He abandoned her at some point before the first book started and later revealed himself to be her father.
The antagonist's name Armstrong is a reference towards the famous American trumpeter Louis Armstrong in the Jazz Age (1920-30's). He shares the same last name as Nero Feint, which suggests that he might be a relative of his.
Also Duke Ellington was an American Jazz composer from 1923 till his death in 1974. Throughout the ATWQ books multiple references are made. Also Captain Widdershins exclaims the Duke Ellington's name in a panic in The Grim Grotto.
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Post by Dante on Aug 14, 2020 2:45:21 GMT -5
While I appreciate your enthusiasm, counto, if you had paid a little more attention to the contents of this thread you would have realised that it dates from the period before ATWQ came out; at that point, there was a mystery as to who Ellington Feint was, but at this point, there is no need for you to take it on yourself to clear up that mystery. I'd like you to consider in future if you're really contributing something indispensable before you revive an eight-year-old thread.
Regardless, this thread has outlived its context, and as such I will now close it.
Locked.
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