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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Jan 5, 2013 17:36:57 GMT -5
Oh, and a word to the wise nopoweronearth, try not to double-post. For some reason people dont like it. There is a modify button next to the quote button above your own posts. There are many people who don't see it at the beginning.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 5, 2013 19:25:58 GMT -5
(which I've taken to calling the Averse - because both ASoUE and ATWQ's initials begin with A, and also because it's a pun) Oh, now that's just too clever. I don't think it's a coincidence that poisoned tea appears at the end of The End and the beginning of the prequel. Nor do I think the chronology of Ishmael's "If I don't tell you how I came to prefer tea that is as bitter as wormwood ..." can refer to anything but the tea-poisoning incident. However, I agree that it's unlikely there's a grander scheme at work here; I had written a fair amount on why it could be, but this is dismissed by the fact that tea (and now coffee) is almost ubiquitous in the - if I may - Averse, and indeed in much of literature.
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Post by counto on Aug 14, 2020 2:09:32 GMT -5
Ishmael was a former chemistry teacher (most likely Prufrock Prep) years ago before he arrived on the Island. He mentions a female student with one eyebrow and ear, who lost them in her grandfather's laboratory by accident. Apparently this accident left her an orphan as well and she and her siblings were placed under care of violent drunkard and murderer. She found out their caretaker was trying to poison her with some tea, luckily she pretended to dink it and poured the remains into a houseplant.
She told Ishmael about it, which some how led him to the Island pre-schism.
One theory is that he made her an antidote for the tea (rather then call the police), which the murderer found out and threatened to kill him. In fear he defected from VFD and ended up shipwrecked on the Island before Beatrice and Bertrand arrived.
In the illustrations of him, his hair is white and has a long white beard. He would've been in his 20 or 30's by the time he first arrived. Making him almost near a hundred years old before the Baudelaire Orphans and Count Olaf washed up onshore.
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