Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on May 31, 2019 0:01:17 GMT -5
So ... I'm going to talk again about the Great Unknown ... I'm already getting annoying talking and talking about it ... I know. But when a subject sticks in my mind it's hard to leave. I was fleeing from having to think about it, assuming another person's theory as absolute truth, and I put aside what identifies me: I am a totally egocentric ASOUE theorist. When you pretend to be what you are not, you end up hurting yourself, do not you? I may even be humble in admitting mistakes, but that does not make me less self-centered ... My therapist was right after all. "Admitting your personality defects is the first step to improving, but pretending you've improved is not the second." But this is not a text about me. It is a text about the TGU and the sugar bowl.
For my theory about the sugar bowl to work, it is necessary that one of the appearances of the TGU in TGG is of the marine animal. You should remember that an entity in question mark form in TGG appeared twice in history. Let's look at the textual differences between these two times. (Laerte, the English specialist I contacted helped me in this part).
First, let's look at the first appearance of something in question mark format in TGG, Chapter 4.
“Fiona grabbed her stepfather 's arm, but Captain Widdershins shook his head silently, and pointed at the sonar screen again. The eye and the Q were almost on top of one another on the screen, but that was not what the captain was pointing at. There was a third shape of glowing green light, this one the biggest of all, a huge curved tube with a small circle at the end of it, slithering toward the center of the screen like a snake. But this third underwater craft didn't look like a snake. As it approached the eye and the Q, the small circle leading the enormous curved tube toward the Queequeg and its frightened volunteer crew, the shape looked more like a question mark.”
Here are two main points. Of course, this part of the analysis was first done by the volunteers of Dark Avennue 667, many years before I arrived here, I am only referring to highlighting the difference between the two apparitions. (ps .: Dear therapist, if you're reading this, I believe this is a true demonstration of my improvement, I swear I'm not pretending to be less self-centered, I'm actually getting better.):
1 - THIS THIRD UNDERWATER CRAFT didn't look like a snake
2 - This third underwater craft DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A SNAKE.
So, surely, this first appearance refers to a submarine, which did not look like a snake. This form clearly had some round device at one end, which made the entity appear on the sonar with a question mark.
Now let's look at the second apparition:
Night had fallen – Monday night – so the view outside was very dark, and the Baudelaires could scarcely see this enormous and sinister shape. They could not even tell, just as I will not tell, if it was some horrifying mechanical device, such as a submarine, or some ghastly creature of the sea. They merely saw an enormous shadow, curling and uncurling in the water, as if Count Olaf's one eyebrow had grown into an enormous beast that was roaming the sea, a shadow as chilling as the villain's glare and as dark as villainy itself. The Baudelaire orphans had never seen anything so utterly eerie, and they found themselves sitting still as statues, pressing against the porthole in an utter hush. It was probably this hush that saved them, for the sinister shape curled once more, and began to fade into the blackness of the water.
Note that in this second appearance, Lemony stated that he would not say if this time it was really a submarine or a sea beast. Nevertheless, what the children saw at this time is more characteristic of an animal than of a submarine. Lemony says:
"They merely saw an enormous shadow, curling and uncurling in the water."
A submarine is unlikely to curl and then unravel in the water. This is an argument that is based not only on the constructive aspects of a submarine. But it is also based on the following question: why would a submarine exhibit this behavior? On the other hand, a sea serpent would exhibit exactly this type of behavior to get around, recognize the area, or simply to have fun. Now notice how Lemony describes the behavior of the entity this time:
"as if Count Olaf's one eyebrow had grown into an enormous beast that was roaming the sea."
Lemony compares the entity to a huge beast. But the detail is the expression "roaming the sea". The entity seemed to act according to the definition of the word "roam": "to go from place to place without purpose or direction". Again this seems to apply more to an animal than to a submarine. In the case the entity was very close to Queequeg. If it were a submarine this time, it would not be necessary to have a sonar device for the submarine crew to identify that there was another submarine just ahead.
Lemony also explained: "It was probably this hush that saved them,". Animals are often frightened by sudden noises. If the Baudelaires were not silent, the deadly animal could have attacked them. Thus, I reaffirm my theory that there are two entities in question format in TGG. The first one that appeared was a submarine, and the second was a deadly marine beast.
For my theory about the sugar bowl to work, it is necessary that one of the appearances of the TGU in TGG is of the marine animal. You should remember that an entity in question mark form in TGG appeared twice in history. Let's look at the textual differences between these two times. (Laerte, the English specialist I contacted helped me in this part).
First, let's look at the first appearance of something in question mark format in TGG, Chapter 4.
“Fiona grabbed her stepfather 's arm, but Captain Widdershins shook his head silently, and pointed at the sonar screen again. The eye and the Q were almost on top of one another on the screen, but that was not what the captain was pointing at. There was a third shape of glowing green light, this one the biggest of all, a huge curved tube with a small circle at the end of it, slithering toward the center of the screen like a snake. But this third underwater craft didn't look like a snake. As it approached the eye and the Q, the small circle leading the enormous curved tube toward the Queequeg and its frightened volunteer crew, the shape looked more like a question mark.”
Here are two main points. Of course, this part of the analysis was first done by the volunteers of Dark Avennue 667, many years before I arrived here, I am only referring to highlighting the difference between the two apparitions. (ps .: Dear therapist, if you're reading this, I believe this is a true demonstration of my improvement, I swear I'm not pretending to be less self-centered, I'm actually getting better.):
1 - THIS THIRD UNDERWATER CRAFT didn't look like a snake
2 - This third underwater craft DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A SNAKE.
So, surely, this first appearance refers to a submarine, which did not look like a snake. This form clearly had some round device at one end, which made the entity appear on the sonar with a question mark.
Now let's look at the second apparition:
Night had fallen – Monday night – so the view outside was very dark, and the Baudelaires could scarcely see this enormous and sinister shape. They could not even tell, just as I will not tell, if it was some horrifying mechanical device, such as a submarine, or some ghastly creature of the sea. They merely saw an enormous shadow, curling and uncurling in the water, as if Count Olaf's one eyebrow had grown into an enormous beast that was roaming the sea, a shadow as chilling as the villain's glare and as dark as villainy itself. The Baudelaire orphans had never seen anything so utterly eerie, and they found themselves sitting still as statues, pressing against the porthole in an utter hush. It was probably this hush that saved them, for the sinister shape curled once more, and began to fade into the blackness of the water.
Note that in this second appearance, Lemony stated that he would not say if this time it was really a submarine or a sea beast. Nevertheless, what the children saw at this time is more characteristic of an animal than of a submarine. Lemony says:
"They merely saw an enormous shadow, curling and uncurling in the water."
A submarine is unlikely to curl and then unravel in the water. This is an argument that is based not only on the constructive aspects of a submarine. But it is also based on the following question: why would a submarine exhibit this behavior? On the other hand, a sea serpent would exhibit exactly this type of behavior to get around, recognize the area, or simply to have fun. Now notice how Lemony describes the behavior of the entity this time:
"as if Count Olaf's one eyebrow had grown into an enormous beast that was roaming the sea."
Lemony compares the entity to a huge beast. But the detail is the expression "roaming the sea". The entity seemed to act according to the definition of the word "roam": "to go from place to place without purpose or direction". Again this seems to apply more to an animal than to a submarine. In the case the entity was very close to Queequeg. If it were a submarine this time, it would not be necessary to have a sonar device for the submarine crew to identify that there was another submarine just ahead.
Lemony also explained: "It was probably this hush that saved them,". Animals are often frightened by sudden noises. If the Baudelaires were not silent, the deadly animal could have attacked them. Thus, I reaffirm my theory that there are two entities in question format in TGG. The first one that appeared was a submarine, and the second was a deadly marine beast.
