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Post by thatkingofspades on Jan 13, 2013 4:11:03 GMT -5
I've just been looking through the TE subforum to see if I can find anything on this, but I couldn't so apologies if it's been brought up before.
I haven't read the books in a long while, but I remember that near the end of The End, the Baudelaires were looking for something in the arboretum and there was discussion of a ring.
I tried to use the Sebald code to see if anything was hidden there but I never found anything and I was curious as to whether anyone had?
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Post by Dante on Jan 13, 2013 4:36:10 GMT -5
I don't think anybody ever has, no. The only confirmed instances of Sebald Code in the books are - well, all of the examples in the Unauthorized Autobiography, which are of course circled and highlighted, and the rather curious message in Chapter Three of TPP. There are other places which seem to be prompting Sebald Code - Widdershins rings a bell a couple of times for no apparent reason in TGG, and as you note a ring is mentioned in The End. In one of the letters in The Beatrice Letters, Beatrice talks of a shepherd speaking to her whilst ringing a bell - maybe he was using Sebald Code, but without a transcript it's impossible to say. Sometimes a ring is just a ring.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jan 13, 2013 8:48:01 GMT -5
Sometimes a ring is just a ring. If only it were that simple. TPP introduced the possibility of Sebald code in the canon, which, I think, put many readers on guard for future messages. However, the probability of such a message appearing again is notably low, especially given the abundance of rings in WCTBATH. I like to think these "red herrings" were to train us not to expect Sebald code in future installments, rather than to foreshadow its use. TE, though it contains nearly as many rings as WCTBATH, does not contain any instances of Sebald code (I've checked). However, as Dante notes, it is possibly alluded to in TBL. |
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Post by thatkingofspades on Jan 15, 2013 6:08:45 GMT -5
Maybe it's just my over-fondness for puns, but I think the "red herring" thing is brilliant.
I hope the Sebald Code does make more appearances, it would put my instant alertness whenever I see the word "ring" to some use.
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