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Post by Dante on Mar 25, 2012 3:17:44 GMT -5
Good on you for signing up, terrycraig! I hope you'll stick around. It'll be a long seven months, but it seems like the publishers are trying to make it an exciting seven months, too. Personally, I'd be surprised if the text and image weren't linked in any of the promos - subject line, image, and caption - simply because we would logically expect them to be; it'd be odd for them to juxtapose a number of pieces of information that have nothing to do with each other. So I guess, regardless of what the truth of the lost ink may be, I expect there to be a picture of an octopus in WCTBATH... unless some of these pictures are being produced solely for the promotional effort, which is also an exciting possibility. In which case they might be asking Seth to draw something related to that week's chosen subject line and caption, in which case Ellington Feint is probably still linked to a girl, but the octopus could be just emblematic of ink.
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ziggy
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Post by ziggy on Apr 11, 2012 2:18:35 GMT -5
If the octopus's expression is supposed to be frightened then it's usual reaction to a threat would be to produce ink as a defense mechanism. Maybe the question is why is the octopus not making ink.
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Post by Dante on Apr 11, 2012 6:48:41 GMT -5
Not a bad idea, ziggy, but there are also literal ink bottles on the cover art of the book. Ink might be a recurring motif that emerges in several places.
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Post by madisonscott on Jun 22, 2012 8:20:49 GMT -5
I'm terribly sorry for bumping this thread! But I'm currently rereading The Beatrice Letters, and in "LS to BB #2," Snicket is discussing his dislike of Olaf and mentions an "incident with the bottle of ink." Could young Olaf have something to do with the missing ink?
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Post by Dante on Jun 22, 2012 8:24:00 GMT -5
I think that was an incident with a bottle of an ink and a root beer float, indicating that Olaf poured ink into a root beer float as a prank. I don't think it's relevant to the new series - it could happen within it, I guess, but I think it would be recontextualising it terribly to replay it as something plot-critical rather than a jest by an annoying schoolmate.
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