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Post by Dante on Oct 17, 2016 16:24:49 GMT -5
Lemony discussing people openly saying ridiculous things was more in reference to the Baudelaires telling Quigley to his face that he was dead, though... much though I would like to believe otherwise. The general theory on the Quagmires' relationship with V.F.D., though, is that all three were probably aware of the organisation before meeting the Baudelaires, with Duncan and Isadora having perhaps been quietly recruited by the Prufrock librarian and keeping it a secret until they discovered the organisation was relevant to the Baudelaires' and Olaf's history; Quigley himself spent some time living with Jacques Snicket and probably had a great deal revealed to him during that period.
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TheAsh
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Post by TheAsh on Feb 5, 2020 7:06:18 GMT -5
The books themselves don't explicitly say that Lemony's been reported dead multiple times, but it's a theory that holds water. Although I think there is a bit where he talks about reports of one's death happening frequently... Yes, here it is. Chapter Fourteen, page 10: "There are others who say that they perished at sea, although rumors of one's death crop up so often, and are so often revealed to be untrue." I think Lemony is making a joke here: that the reason why the Baudelaires thought he died was due to a shipwreck (or more accurately, a bathyscaphe wreck.) It seems likely to me that the one who told the Baudelaires was Ishmael, who is heavily implied to have ended up on the island due to a bathyscaphe wreck:And we know that Lemony is involved with the bathyscaphe-wreck: Although not explicitly stated, I think that Beatrice thought Lemony dead due to Ishmael telling them so.
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Post by Dante on Feb 5, 2020 17:14:53 GMT -5
That's a reasonable connection to draw, though multiple bathyscaphes may exist; and furthermore, by the time it came to naming their firstborn, I think the Baudelaire parents had probably learnt not to trust Ishmael. But it may well have been the intention nonetheless. The idea previously mooted was that copies of The Daily Punctilio featuring one of Snicket's mistaken obituaries might have washed up on the island during the Baudelaire parents' stay (and there is precedent for this); or else, that they already believed that he was dead before their arrival.
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