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Post by Dante on Oct 25, 2012 3:39:41 GMT -5
On one of the harder-to-explain images in there: The bat skeleton. Bats aren't mentioned again after the tape measure in Chapter Two, but if you look at the full-page illustration in Chapter Six of Lemony and Theodora climbing the hawser, below them is a large group of bats. I'm wondering about the tall, monster-looking man who appears in the arcade game. He's on the cover of the book (or back cover of some editions). He also appears in the illustration here. In the trailer, the animated picture of him was along with the question: "Who is watching all of us?" Is this the VFD observer, because this fellow seems far too sinister to be working for VFD. Is it Hangfire? Something else ominous and mysterious we have yet to learn of? I'm sure it's Hangfire, considering Hangfire's qualities: He is a shadow and a monster. He is always in disguise, even when revealing his true self, because at that moment he is wearing a mask and is at his most bestial and ferocious. He could be nearly anyone, and in addition to that, could be anywhere, as he seems to have been spying on our heroes throughout the whole book. I'm sure the picture is referencing him.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 25, 2012 18:29:32 GMT -5
I have just found out another little detail; this time in regard to this video (which can also be found under this link. It's uploaded by "LemonySnicketLibrary" so you can subscribe to that if you didn't already; who knows if they'll upload any public videos on it?): The hard-to-understand voice-over is a passage from the novel "The Wind in the Willows" (which, as I mentioned before, is also where the toad illustration on the Questionmark site is from, which depicts the character Mr. Toad) and it's a monologue spoken by Badger to Mr. Toad, and is as follows: "You've disregarded all the warnings we've given you, you've gone on squandering the money your father left you, and you're getting us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving and your smashes and your rows with the police. Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached. Now, you're a good fellow in many respects, and I don't want to be too hard on you. I'll make one more effort to bring you to reason. You will come with me into the smoking-room, and there you will hear some facts about yourself; and we'll see whether you come out of that room the same Toad that you went in.'" Could "The Wind in the Willows", or more specifically the character of Mr. Toad, which has been prominently referenced in the website twice, hold a clue to the further development of "All The Wrong Questions"? (If it isn't a reference to something in WCTBATH that I'm not aware of, as I can't tell you how hard it is to wait another week before I can read it). EDIT: Also, the recording of the monologue is probably original content, and if it isn't, it still has been deliberately put over the the video, which can be found here (as you can see it lacks the voice over).
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Post by Dante on Oct 26, 2012 2:31:21 GMT -5
I do think the team behind the promotional materials have been given a lot of information by Handler about the future of the series; that's evident from all of the Ink Inc. material. So it's quite possible that they're drawing a link there, but it's hard to say what to - or rather, who to.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Oct 26, 2012 9:57:02 GMT -5
I'm just not sure why you'd need it when it's already there in the original video, which is why I was unsure what Tryina was requesting if not the simple knowledge of what it was. No, I don't mean that! I didn't even find it on Google, Anks. Anyway, I've got what I need.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Oct 30, 2012 16:02:07 GMT -5
Terry Craig and I pinned down a few more of these references, and I've updated the Screenshot Tour to reflect them (and adjusted a few other details - an overview of the website, for instance).
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Post by Bat Wayne on Oct 30, 2012 20:51:13 GMT -5
Am I the only person who this doesn;t work for? No, I can't seem to get it to work on my computer. I just sit there staring at little dots that move wating for it load, until I eventually realize it won't. Sigh.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 9, 2012 12:30:03 GMT -5
I wanted to point out another thing that may be of importance, or may be not at all. The picture in the upper right corner on the Questionmark homepage's "wall" is an 1803 drawing of a hot air balloon captioned "Luftfahrt des Herrn und Madam Garnerin in Berlin" (which translates as "Monsieur and Madame Garnerin's balloon ride in Berlin") ( source). André-Jacques Garnerin (1769-1823) was a balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute, whose wife was also the first woman to make a parachute descent. Now, the website may be using the picture just for the balloon, or: its connection to parachuting may indeed foreshadow Hector's mission going differently than expected... I thought I'd just throw this theory out there. And just for the record: - The picture on the lower left corner is painted by Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915) and its title is "Tako no asirai " ( source). - The one with the cat lady has been given the descriptive title "A Cat Dressed as a Woman Tapping the Head of an Octopus" and was made by artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862) (whose work I also really admire) ( source). - The picture on the upper left corner seems more modern and I don't know who did it, but I think this is where the picture was taken from, where you can see the uncropped painting. It says its a "Japanese schoolgirl taking revenge on their “traditional” nemesis, Tentacled Menace of the Deep." - The picture of the ink bottle is a 3D-rendered image and is a stock image from Wikimedia Commons ( source).
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Post by Dante on Nov 9, 2012 14:17:40 GMT -5
Fascinating information, Terry Craig. I do wonder how deeply we're meant to be looking into these images - how much consideration was put into their selection. I confess I've been approaching them with the attitude that many were selected chiefly to be both relevant and esoteric, rather than particularly complex in their relation - I'm thinking in particular of your thoughts on the ballooning image.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Nov 10, 2012 1:03:01 GMT -5
Fascinating information, Terry Craig. I do wonder how deeply we're meant to be looking into these images - how much consideration was put into their selection. I confess I've been approaching them with the attitude that many were selected chiefly to be both relevant and esoteric, rather than particularly complex in their relation - I'm thinking in particular of your thoughts on the ballooning image. Good comment!
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Nov 14, 2012 14:51:19 GMT -5
NEW CONTENT ON LSL.com/? (don't read further if you want to discover it yourself by clicking the previous link):A new, pretty neat little video titled "RETURN TO THE SHELF: One book's wild ride home" has appeared (yet another nod to The Wind in the Willows!); an odd gif titled "tvtrains" which it exactly seems to be; a gif called "LSeye", where an up-to-date photo of Lemony Snicket is inside a psychedelic eyeball's iris; a gif simply called "noir" where a film projector shows a moving Hangfire with a subtitle saying "Where's the library?"; a gif titled "losta" of a moving Prosper Lost captioned "Who is That?"; an incredibly creepy gif titled "reward" of an eerie doll's face popping up in the corner and a "MISSING" flyer of... oh you gotta be kidding me: a Lost Arm. Damn. (And the design of the site's map has been updated as well.) The "phone" number on the flyer has the prefix "555", which is widely used in movies for fictitious phone numbers, and "1313" just makes sense for the 13-obsessed Handler. Although there is someone called Bob in New York who has that number. I find that funny. Oh and the tvtrains gif is in negative colors as you may have noticed. The picture of the tv sets is taken from here. Now if someone could find out where those trains come from... or what they mean.
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Post by Dante on Nov 14, 2012 15:05:18 GMT -5
A lot of this new content seems to have had a certain amount of effort into it - the Hangfire animation is new, and there's a lot of use of animation in general. It's an impressive page. The ? page seems designed to inspire nightmares and confusion more than anything else, like the product of a Slenderman ARG or a creepypasta, something not hurt by the laggy load times.
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Post by Antenora on Nov 14, 2012 16:40:58 GMT -5
Various octopi travel along the seafloor to music. Entitled "SO Octopus Video Clip." Perhaps significant is that this video shows a Mimic Octopus. In fact, the footage-- with side-by-side comparisons of the octopus to its mimic-ee-- seems to be taken from this. Also, the "Harvey" bird is definitely a magpie. In fact, searching Google Video for "Harvey aggressive" turns up the same clip on Wikipedia, which identifies the bird as Pica pica, the Eurasian magpie.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Nov 15, 2012 3:19:39 GMT -5
I just wish i could see it...
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Nov 15, 2012 5:52:02 GMT -5
In the Hangfire gif you can see a writing: 'Wo ist die Bibliothek?' which, on an European language I don't know (from the Latin base of languages there.) probably means 'Who is the Librarian?' Qwerty is a sub one, so that might be more of a next-book question.
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Post by Dante on Nov 15, 2012 8:42:47 GMT -5
It's German; Terry Craig translated it (and I agree) as "Where is the library?" So you weren't far off! But why could Hangfire be seeking the library?
Edit: Wait, that's an easy question. He's going there to murder Qwerty, of course!
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