Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on May 6, 2019 9:45:52 GMT -5
I'd like to highlight a sighting from Lemony Snicket that I just read in the book "Read something else". This quote is central to me, because often w![]()
hen I show a picture of The UA, some people say, "That was just a joke from Daniel Handler that you did not understand." This argument always disarmed me. But now I have a counter-argument based on something from Lemony Snicket himself. Something that shows the personality of the character. And in a way, it shows even more the personality of Daniel Handler himself. The citation is as follows:
"THE BEST WAY TO KEEP A SECRET IS TO TELL IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, BUT PRETEND YOU ARE KIDDING." - Lemony Snicket.
That means that Lemony Snicket sometimes tries to fool the reader by showing a truth by pretending to be a joke, but in fact he's actually telling the truth.
Take, for example, this picture below.
According to Sally Sebald, this is a photo of Gustav Sebald as he was beginning to build the snowman that was used in the movie Zombies in the Snow. This photo has been treated as a joke by many of the fans. Because it does not seem to make sense. It's just a kid building a snowman. And according to the books, at the time of the main events of ASOUE, Gustav Sebald was not a child. After all, the play "The world is quiete here" represented the childhood of Gustav Sebald. The play was presented at the time of the marriage cancellation of Beatrice, which was at least 14 years before the main events of ASOUE. So, certainly at the time of the major ASOUE events, Gustav Sebald was no longer a child. Still, according to Sally Sebald, the picture was from her brother when she was about to shoot Zombies in the Snow. So many fans think that the photo is just a joke, and that it has been replaced. Yet in the introduction to The UA, Daniel Handler states that the work was not forged. So why not admit that the photo is real? Daniel Handler is just pretending to be a joke. But if you believe the picture really is from Gustav Sebald, you need to believe that the movie Zombies in the Snow is not about the Baudelaires. It's about some old case, from the infancy of Gustav Sebald. The Baudelaires were just watching a rerun.
Remember that Mimi Mitchum watched a movie containing Zombies in Winter by the time Lemony was 12 or 13 years old ... So everything fits.
"THE BEST WAY TO KEEP A SECRET IS TO TELL IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, BUT PRETEND YOU ARE KIDDING." - Lemony Snicket.
That means that Lemony Snicket sometimes tries to fool the reader by showing a truth by pretending to be a joke, but in fact he's actually telling the truth.
Take, for example, this picture below.
According to Sally Sebald, this is a photo of Gustav Sebald as he was beginning to build the snowman that was used in the movie Zombies in the Snow. This photo has been treated as a joke by many of the fans. Because it does not seem to make sense. It's just a kid building a snowman. And according to the books, at the time of the main events of ASOUE, Gustav Sebald was not a child. After all, the play "The world is quiete here" represented the childhood of Gustav Sebald. The play was presented at the time of the marriage cancellation of Beatrice, which was at least 14 years before the main events of ASOUE. So, certainly at the time of the major ASOUE events, Gustav Sebald was no longer a child. Still, according to Sally Sebald, the picture was from her brother when she was about to shoot Zombies in the Snow. So many fans think that the photo is just a joke, and that it has been replaced. Yet in the introduction to The UA, Daniel Handler states that the work was not forged. So why not admit that the photo is real? Daniel Handler is just pretending to be a joke. But if you believe the picture really is from Gustav Sebald, you need to believe that the movie Zombies in the Snow is not about the Baudelaires. It's about some old case, from the infancy of Gustav Sebald. The Baudelaires were just watching a rerun.
Remember that Mimi Mitchum watched a movie containing Zombies in Winter by the time Lemony was 12 or 13 years old ... So everything fits.
