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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 16, 2012 0:27:46 GMT -5
The picture of the final mailout has already leaked, and it brings up the very question: "What?" It's the usual graph paper and blue tint, and it depicts what I suppose is the interior of the lighthouse from the cover [because of the stairs and the nautical window]. And we see a menacing shadow, and, I think, stacks of newspapers. Is this the shadow of the person who is about to steal "all the ink" (the "ink" being the stacks of newspapers)?
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Post by Kensicle on Apr 16, 2012 0:46:12 GMT -5
If I remember correctly there was something in TUA about the archives of the Daily Punctilio being stolen from the main street of Paltryville. Perhaps there is a connection? Also, may I ask how this image was leaked?
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 16, 2012 1:02:37 GMT -5
Wow, I don't remember that at all. But that really could be related to this. Oh, and concerning the leak: I just added a different number into the URL of the previous picture. Simple as that.
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Post by KlausBaudelaire833 on Apr 16, 2012 3:28:57 GMT -5
If I remember correctly there was something in TUA about the archives of the Daily Punctilio being stolen from the main street of Paltryville. Perhaps there is a connection? Probably the archives were delivered to the lighthouse for sinister purposes (probably). And the people behind the transfer of those archives are villains. Please correct me if there's a problem with my theory.
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Post by Kensicle on Apr 16, 2012 3:58:12 GMT -5
The lighthouse is another nautical connection, perhaps it could be the one on Lachrymose Lake? If I remember correctly there was something in TUA about the archives of the Daily Punctilio being stolen from the main street of Paltryville. Perhaps there is a connection? Probably the archives were delivered to the lighthouse for sinister purposes (probably). And the people behind the transfer of those archives are villains. Please correct me if there's a problem with my theory. The people behind the transfer don't have to be villains - they could be noble volunteers looking for an article that would prove LS's innocence. But firstly I need to reread TUA first to find out if the archives of the Daily Punctilio were indeed stolen. EDIT: Since I couldn't get my hands on a copy of TUA, I did some googling and I've found the letter it's in. That's not the part which I'm talking about but I'm pretty sure it's from the same letter.
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Post by B. on Apr 16, 2012 4:11:14 GMT -5
Gosh, Hachette books needs to get there act together. I suspect the subject line will tell us more when the official email is sent, and there may be some accompanying text with the image.
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Post by soufflé on Apr 16, 2012 9:09:05 GMT -5
Considering the style of the windows, this could also be a submarine. Alrhough it's probably a lighthouse because of the tall, winding stairs.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Apr 16, 2012 14:39:14 GMT -5
Oh, and concerning the leak: I just added a different number into the URL of the previous picture. Simple as that. Wow. It's so obvious, who would have guessed? Well, good for you, Terry Craig. The winding staircase, tiled floor, ominous shadow, and apparent passageway leads me to agree with the "lighthouse" theory. Yes, the ink theme has recurred more than once now, hasn't it? There seems to be two shadows in this image, one notably shorter than the other (a child?). The UA passage in question reads: " The archives of The Daily Punctilio ... have been destroyed. Perhaps it was foolish to keep this collection in plain sight, instead of locked up tight, but even in the most secure collections of information ... are gone now, so perhaps it makes no difference that the archives of The Daily Punctilio were merely stacked in large towers along a street in a small town near the Finite Forest. Our enemies would have found those crucial newspapers no matter where they were hidden, and destroyed them." If the latter two sentences are to be believed, this image could very well depict the large towers along the street in a town - a fading town? - near the Finite Forest.
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Post by B. on Apr 16, 2012 15:33:42 GMT -5
This image is definitely the most detailed of all. It does seem to link quite a few aspects which we already know- the villain, the lighthouse and the newspapers (ink or lack of). I wonder if the cardboard boxes hold any significance?
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Post by Hermes on Apr 16, 2012 15:52:55 GMT -5
The bit about the burning archives in TUA is actually a reference back to TMM, where we are told that the streets are lined with piles of newspapers.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Apr 16, 2012 17:25:56 GMT -5
Well, one could view Paltryville as a fading town. No lighthouses there, though, so probably not. However, history repeats itself in ASOUE (most evident in TBL), and since this is a prequel, I wonder if this instance - the shady figure approaching the news stacks - is the beginning of a tradition?
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Post by soufflé on Apr 16, 2012 17:45:04 GMT -5
I wonder if the cardboard boxes hold any significance? They might hold more newspapers.
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Post by Kensicle on Apr 16, 2012 19:36:38 GMT -5
Thanks for finding that passage, Sherry Ann. It indicates that the archives are crucial and in danger of being destroyed. They could've been moved to the lighthouse for good or for bad.
All our speculation so far is hinged on the assumption that the piles tied up with string are newspapers, even though I don't know what else they could be.
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Post by s on Apr 16, 2012 23:26:26 GMT -5
Does that look like the shadow of both an adult [or tall person] and a child [or very small person] to anyone else?
I'm seeing two figures there, but I guess I don't really know the physics of it all, or what could (or couldn't) make that shape.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 16, 2012 23:44:56 GMT -5
There seems to be two shadows in this image, one notably shorter than the other (a child?). Does that look like the shadow of both an adult [or tall person] and a child [or very small person] to anyone else? I'm seeing two figures there, but I guess I don't really know the physics of it all, or what could (or couldn't) make that shape. Yeah, now that you say it I see it too. Seems likely. Doesn't have to be a child/small person, though. It could be just someone standing farther behind.
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