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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Dec 1, 2012 4:02:46 GMT -5
I was joking, Dante's Bone china was funnier though
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Post by Charlie on Dec 1, 2012 5:05:50 GMT -5
In a noir series, in a setting which has had fourteen books featuring zero magic. You're really prepared to step over this line and believe in something completely inconsistent with the territory? If you believe this, I'm afraid you'll have to believe anything. That awkward moment when Dante uses his large vocabulary and scholarly grasp of lexicon to completely burn the hell out of someone who proposes a theory that he doesn't like... Not that that's a bad thing or anything
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Post by Dante on Dec 1, 2012 8:28:34 GMT -5
I'm genuinely not trying to burn Fiona Fanboy here. I just find it regrettable that he'd beleive in something that I consider to be wholly unhelpful. We do have the ASoUE context to consider here. If ATWQ was Snicket's first narrative series then I think we would be having a legitimate discussion over whether the series would take a turn for the paranormal, and I might even be arguing in favour of that, citing perhaps Lovecraftian elements. But as it stands such a direction would be wholly inconsistent with ASoUE. The idea of magic being real is totally ridiculed in The End. A mysterious sea monster that might be a submarine or something more abstract than that is one thing; we're never going to see the Great Unknown to find out exactly what it is. But a girl who's actually a sea monster in disguise?
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