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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 24, 2012 15:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by B. on Jul 24, 2012 15:18:50 GMT -5
I wonder if this is a change in the pattern: It's come later, and there's quite a change in the artwork style, too. The "more arms than seem necessary" seems like another reference to the lost arms. We can also note that the web address for lemonysnicketlibrary.com is now at the bottom, which directs all the people subscribed to Snicketmail to the main website. Since Facebook, the emails, and the original sign up page now all direct here, I hope we'll be seeing some new material on the website soon.
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Post by Dante on Jul 24, 2012 15:37:42 GMT -5
That's weird; I didn't get this one on either of my e-mail addresses. Time to go and check my sign-ups, although I suspect it's not my problem, given that some of the Snicketmails have missed one of my addresses before.
The message itself doesn't tell us anything, but the subject line is far more interesting - perhaps it foreshadows Lemony's future as a braeman, although it'll be interesting to meet such a misanthropic speaker. Although Stain'd, too, has its caves, which I think this remark echoes.
Edit: In the past I've checked the sign-ups and it's said if I've already been signed up... but today when I tried to sign up again, it let me without question. Did they clear my address off their books for some reason? Well, thanks, Hachette.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 24, 2012 15:42:10 GMT -5
I don't have this one either; I recall receiving Stormy Weather and possibly others late. The reference to "more arms than seems necessary" is rather odd; perhaps we're supposed to interpret "arms" with the meaning "weapons"? Or the arms of people reaching out to grab you by your ankles. Regarding the subject line, there might also be a connection to Plato's Allegory of the Cave (previously mentioned in TGG, and bearing some conceptual similarity to the map-territory distinction already brought up), since "all of us" are said to be cave-dwellers. Incidentally, the octopus is the same one that inhabits the floaty pen.
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Post by Old Swinburne on Jul 24, 2012 15:50:15 GMT -5
The very fact that it is not on the graph paper we are used to- which are presumeably things drawn by Lemony himself- the Octopus is probably a logo from Ink Inc. In fact, I may go as far as saying that the image is slightly clearer than is normally the case, so that is probably the reason. And what is it drawn on? A napkin?
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Post by Dante on Jul 24, 2012 15:56:45 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure the image is non-sketchy because it's finalised art as opposed to draft art, which you can see by comparing most of the Snicketmail illustrations and the ones we got in the mail to the finalised versions in the attaché and on LemonySnicketLibrary's preview. So I would suggest this art is maybe taken from within the book itself.
And to anyone who didn't get this e-mail, I'd recommend signing up again, just in case.
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Post by Hermes on Jul 24, 2012 16:53:42 GMT -5
The Plato reference was the first thing to spring to my mind. As for 'arms', yes, I think in relation to the world (as opposed to the octopus) it means weapons. (Cf. the obscene anagram 'a wet viper perm'.)
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 24, 2012 17:12:09 GMT -5
Hm. The LemonySnicketLibrary.com link at the bottom of the email still redirects to the Hachette sign-up page for me unless I type it into the address bar myself.
I did notice the illustration matches that of the pen's, and also that it has all eight legs, unlike the octo(?)pus used for Ink Inc.'s logo. I like the idea of "more arms than seems necessary" referring to armaments - from a literary standpoint, I mean - but my first, far less plausible, instinct was that the phrase referred to the numerous arms in the world found on chairs, bodies, corporations, etc.
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Post by C. on Jul 24, 2012 20:48:50 GMT -5
I guess that as we go along, if the messages continue, we will get illustrations that are full done rather than just sketches.
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Post by Kensicle on Jul 24, 2012 21:47:38 GMT -5
My first thought was that the "cave" in the subject line was a reference to the "long, narrow caves" that the octopi are trapped in at Stain'd.
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Post by Dante on Jul 25, 2012 1:14:46 GMT -5
Incidentally, I have the e-mail now, and it claims it was sent at around the time it was received by the rest of you. Maybe it was just my e-mail service screwing up? (Although I still don't have it on my home account...) I guess that as we go along, if the messages continue, we will get illustrations that are full done rather than just sketches. That's what I think. It reflects the fact that the final version of the book is getting closer and closer to us. But of course this may be a one-off, although since the Snicketmails are getting so much rarer now, I doubt it'd be a problem for them... My first thought was that the "cave" in the subject line was a reference to the "long, narrow caves" that the octopi are trapped in at Stain'd. I think there's a semantic link to that, yes.
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