Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 15, 2019 22:33:19 GMT -5
This text is necessary to understand the theoretical basis for the hypothesis I call "A Brief History of VFD"
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35982/brief-history-vfd-hypothesis
There have been several schisms in VFD, and I would like to explain what happened in two, as well as their motivations, and what changed in VFD because of these Schisms.
I call these two schisms the Great VFD Schism and the Olaf Schism. About the Great VFD Schism Kit explained in TPP chapter 2:
“I was four years old when everything changed. Our organization
shattered, and it was as if the world shattered, too, and one by one the safe places were destroyed. ”
Something that marked the time of the Great Schism was the kidnapping of children. Dewey explained:
“Before the schism,” Dewey said, “VFD was like a public library. Anyone could join us having access to all of the information we’d acquired. Volunteers all over the globe were reading each other’s research, learning from each other’s observations, and borrowing each
other’s books. For a while it seemed as if we might keep the whole world safe, secure, and smart. ”
“It must have been a wonderful time,” Klaus said. “I scarcely remember it,” Dewey said. “I was four years old when the schism began … But one night, just as our parents were hanging balloons for our fifth birthday party, my brothers and I were taken.”
“Taken where?” Violet asked.
“Taken by whom?” Sunny asked
“I admire your curiosity,” Dewey said. “The woman who took me said that one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. And she took me to a place high in the mountains, where she said such things would be encouraged. ”
Klaus opened his commonplace book and began to take furious notes. “The headquarters,” Klaus said, “in the Valley of Four Drafts.”
“Your parents must have missed you,” Violet said.
“They perished that very night,” Dewey said, “in a terrible fire. I don’t have to tell you how badly I felt when I learned the news.”
What can we conclude from this dialogue? Dewey was already a member of VFD when he was 4 years old. Dewey was taken by the VFD fire extinguisher side as he was taken to VFD headquarters. Still, Dewey’s parents were killed that night. Before you think the fire fighting side was responsible for the fire that killed his parents, remember that Ernest Denouement is recognized as a member of the arsonist side of VFD. This is a strong indication that the incendiary side was at the Denouement brothers’ house that same night, and set the house on fire, and stayed with Ernest.
This means that by the time Lemony was taking VFD classes, the Great Schism had already happened. Similarly, when Lemony was in SBTS the Great Schism had already happened. Something important to understanding the Great Schism is to understand that from the Great Schism, VFD stopped tattooing on the ankles of its members.
Capítulo 12 da LSTUA:
3. Do I have to get a tatto?
Not anymore. Since the schism, we have realized that it is not wise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol change at any moment.
This means that all characters who were already part of VFD before the Great Schism have a tattoo. But characters who entered VFD after the Great Schism do not have a tattoo. It is also important to understand that the VFD before the Great Schism had members on both sides of the Schism. So it is to be expected that some horrible things done by VFD members before the Great Schism were done because these VFD members were not noble people. An example of this is child labor.
The bearded but hairless woman explained in TSS chapter 6:
‘The woman with hair but no beard nodded. “Infant servants are so troublesome,” she said. “I had an infant servant once – a long time ago, before the schism.”
“Before the schism?” Olaf said, and Sunny wished Klaus were with
her, because the baby did not know what the word “schism” meant.
“That is a long time ago. That infant must be all grown up by now.” ’
t is likely that the Schism to which the sinister woman spoke is the Great VFD Schism. That means she had been putting young children to work since that time. Does this mean that before the Great Schism, babies were kidnapped from their parents to be part of VFD against parental consent? Apparently so. That’s what we learned the litte snicket lad song. This song portrays something that happened before the VFD Great Schism, after all it talks about tattooing the VFD symbol on little Snicket’s ankles.
Notice the excerpt from the song in chapter 1 of LSTUA:
“When we grab you by the ankles,
WHERE OUR MARK IS TO BE MADE,
You’ll soon be doing noble work,
Although you won’t be paid.
When we drive away in secret,
You’ll be a volunteer,
So don’t scream when we take you:
The world is quiet here.”
However, even after the Great Schism, the fire-fighting side continued to carry children. The difference was that there was parental permission, and the child needed to show interest in being taken, especially if the child was orphaned.
See chapter 12 of LSTUA for this.
However, even after the Great Schism, the noble side of VFD continued to practice taking children around their ankles. This practice hurt the children’s ankles a little. However, they no longer got the tattoo. We realize this from Miss K’s account, and from R’s letter to Lemony in chapter 2 of LSTUA.
However, even after the Great Schism, the noble side of VFD continued to practice taking children around their ankles. This practice hurt the children’s ankles a little. However, they no longer got the tattoo. We realize this from Miss K’s account, and from R’s letter to Lemony in chapter 2 of LSTUA.
As I explained, Miss K, who was at Prufrock Prep after the publication of some of ASOUE’s books, was until Prufrock Prep recruited students. She followed the instructions described in chapter 12 of LSTUA. She impersonated a teacher, and presented a list of books to young people who might be members of VFD one day. Since there were orphans, she could make more direct contact with them, and did not need parental permission to capture these orphans for VFD. He just needed the permission of the children to be kidnapped. Here is a description of what she did:
LSTUA chapter 8:
“When I informed Ms K of my decision, she behaved exactly like any improper teacher and immediately kidnapped two children, holding them by the ankles as she ran the front lawn .. They were two replacement orphans for those three Baudelaire brats … ”
Evidently this happened many years after the Great Schism, and the fire-extinguishing side kept kidnapping children by the ankle. And that’s what R wrote in her letter to Lemony:
LSTUA chapter 2:
“It seems to me, my dear frient, thet one moment you are becoming friends in the infirmary, telling each other stories to distract us from the pain in our ankles …Beatrice, Bertrand and Esme certainly do not have tattoos. This means that at the time of the Great Schism, they were not yet members of VFD, even though they were born. Both new VFD members and old members who had been taken to VFD before the Schism but were still children needed training. Therefore, all together were sent to the training, to be inserted in society in the most different functions. Olaf was among those brought in from the old VFD, as were Lemony, Kit, and Jacques.But before we can explain Olaf’s Schism, we need to know what motivated this Great Schism. I can say that there is textual evidence to indicate that at least one of the motives of the Great Schism was the use or otherwise of violence by VFD.
Olaf explained:
"No,” Count Olaf said, with a frown. “If you were to wash the clay of
Ishmael’s feet, you’d see he has the same tattoo as I do. ”
“Eyeliner?” Guessed Madame Nordoff. “No,” Count Olaf said sharply. “The difference is that Ishmael is unarmed. He abandoned his weapons long ago, during the V.F.D. schism, refusing to use violence of any sort.”
Understanding this gives more significance to the end of ATWQ Book 4. At that time, Lemony was in a VFD that refused to use violence of any kind, and yet Lemony did what he did.
The other event called the Schism was caused by Count Olaf at the time of Lemony’s marriage cancellation. It was at the time of this ICsma that the VFD animals were kidnapped.
TSS Chapter 13:
“Look at these creatures!” cried the woman with hair but no
beard. “When the schism occurred, you may have won the carrier
crows, volunteers, and you may have won the trained reptiles. ”
“Not anymore,” Count Olaf said. “All of the reptiles except one -”
“Don’t interrupt,” the sinister woman interrupted. “You may have
the carrier crows but we have the two most powerful mammals in
the world to our bidding - the lions and eagles! ”
We know this Schism is not the Great Schism because Beatrice and Bertrand trained lions (TBB rare Edition), and Lemony remembers the eagles used to detect fires, em TSS chapter 8:
“I once chopped broccoli while the woman I loved mixed up a spicy
peanut sauce to go with it, and he was pointing up towards the sky,
where my associates and I used to watch the volunteer eagles who
could spot smoke from a very great distance”
Jacques explained that VFD also called Olaf-related events a Schism.
LSTUA chapter 7
… recently this organization has experienced a Schism, a word wich here means “a member suddenly behaving in a greedy and and violent manne and thus dividing the organization into two arguing groups. The member I am speaking of - I will just call O… - has recently done a great deal of vicius, unfair, and impolite acts that I shudder to describe.
In the future I will explain in more detail about Olaf’s Schism, why I will write a text about Olaf’s origin.
asoue.proboards.com/thread/35982/brief-history-vfd-hypothesis
There have been several schisms in VFD, and I would like to explain what happened in two, as well as their motivations, and what changed in VFD because of these Schisms.
I call these two schisms the Great VFD Schism and the Olaf Schism. About the Great VFD Schism Kit explained in TPP chapter 2:
“I was four years old when everything changed. Our organization
shattered, and it was as if the world shattered, too, and one by one the safe places were destroyed. ”
Something that marked the time of the Great Schism was the kidnapping of children. Dewey explained:
“Before the schism,” Dewey said, “VFD was like a public library. Anyone could join us having access to all of the information we’d acquired. Volunteers all over the globe were reading each other’s research, learning from each other’s observations, and borrowing each
other’s books. For a while it seemed as if we might keep the whole world safe, secure, and smart. ”
“It must have been a wonderful time,” Klaus said. “I scarcely remember it,” Dewey said. “I was four years old when the schism began … But one night, just as our parents were hanging balloons for our fifth birthday party, my brothers and I were taken.”
“Taken where?” Violet asked.
“Taken by whom?” Sunny asked
“I admire your curiosity,” Dewey said. “The woman who took me said that one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. And she took me to a place high in the mountains, where she said such things would be encouraged. ”
Klaus opened his commonplace book and began to take furious notes. “The headquarters,” Klaus said, “in the Valley of Four Drafts.”
“Your parents must have missed you,” Violet said.
“They perished that very night,” Dewey said, “in a terrible fire. I don’t have to tell you how badly I felt when I learned the news.”
What can we conclude from this dialogue? Dewey was already a member of VFD when he was 4 years old. Dewey was taken by the VFD fire extinguisher side as he was taken to VFD headquarters. Still, Dewey’s parents were killed that night. Before you think the fire fighting side was responsible for the fire that killed his parents, remember that Ernest Denouement is recognized as a member of the arsonist side of VFD. This is a strong indication that the incendiary side was at the Denouement brothers’ house that same night, and set the house on fire, and stayed with Ernest.
This means that by the time Lemony was taking VFD classes, the Great Schism had already happened. Similarly, when Lemony was in SBTS the Great Schism had already happened. Something important to understanding the Great Schism is to understand that from the Great Schism, VFD stopped tattooing on the ankles of its members.
Capítulo 12 da LSTUA:
3. Do I have to get a tatto?
Not anymore. Since the schism, we have realized that it is not wise to permanently mark oneself with a symbol when the meaning of the symbol change at any moment.
This means that all characters who were already part of VFD before the Great Schism have a tattoo. But characters who entered VFD after the Great Schism do not have a tattoo. It is also important to understand that the VFD before the Great Schism had members on both sides of the Schism. So it is to be expected that some horrible things done by VFD members before the Great Schism were done because these VFD members were not noble people. An example of this is child labor.
The bearded but hairless woman explained in TSS chapter 6:
‘The woman with hair but no beard nodded. “Infant servants are so troublesome,” she said. “I had an infant servant once – a long time ago, before the schism.”
“Before the schism?” Olaf said, and Sunny wished Klaus were with
her, because the baby did not know what the word “schism” meant.
“That is a long time ago. That infant must be all grown up by now.” ’
t is likely that the Schism to which the sinister woman spoke is the Great VFD Schism. That means she had been putting young children to work since that time. Does this mean that before the Great Schism, babies were kidnapped from their parents to be part of VFD against parental consent? Apparently so. That’s what we learned the litte snicket lad song. This song portrays something that happened before the VFD Great Schism, after all it talks about tattooing the VFD symbol on little Snicket’s ankles.
Notice the excerpt from the song in chapter 1 of LSTUA:
“When we grab you by the ankles,
WHERE OUR MARK IS TO BE MADE,
You’ll soon be doing noble work,
Although you won’t be paid.
When we drive away in secret,
You’ll be a volunteer,
So don’t scream when we take you:
The world is quiet here.”
However, even after the Great Schism, the fire-fighting side continued to carry children. The difference was that there was parental permission, and the child needed to show interest in being taken, especially if the child was orphaned.
See chapter 12 of LSTUA for this.
However, even after the Great Schism, the noble side of VFD continued to practice taking children around their ankles. This practice hurt the children’s ankles a little. However, they no longer got the tattoo. We realize this from Miss K’s account, and from R’s letter to Lemony in chapter 2 of LSTUA.
However, even after the Great Schism, the noble side of VFD continued to practice taking children around their ankles. This practice hurt the children’s ankles a little. However, they no longer got the tattoo. We realize this from Miss K’s account, and from R’s letter to Lemony in chapter 2 of LSTUA.
As I explained, Miss K, who was at Prufrock Prep after the publication of some of ASOUE’s books, was until Prufrock Prep recruited students. She followed the instructions described in chapter 12 of LSTUA. She impersonated a teacher, and presented a list of books to young people who might be members of VFD one day. Since there were orphans, she could make more direct contact with them, and did not need parental permission to capture these orphans for VFD. He just needed the permission of the children to be kidnapped. Here is a description of what she did:
LSTUA chapter 8:
“When I informed Ms K of my decision, she behaved exactly like any improper teacher and immediately kidnapped two children, holding them by the ankles as she ran the front lawn .. They were two replacement orphans for those three Baudelaire brats … ”
Evidently this happened many years after the Great Schism, and the fire-extinguishing side kept kidnapping children by the ankle. And that’s what R wrote in her letter to Lemony:
LSTUA chapter 2:
“It seems to me, my dear frient, thet one moment you are becoming friends in the infirmary, telling each other stories to distract us from the pain in our ankles …Beatrice, Bertrand and Esme certainly do not have tattoos. This means that at the time of the Great Schism, they were not yet members of VFD, even though they were born. Both new VFD members and old members who had been taken to VFD before the Schism but were still children needed training. Therefore, all together were sent to the training, to be inserted in society in the most different functions. Olaf was among those brought in from the old VFD, as were Lemony, Kit, and Jacques.But before we can explain Olaf’s Schism, we need to know what motivated this Great Schism. I can say that there is textual evidence to indicate that at least one of the motives of the Great Schism was the use or otherwise of violence by VFD.
Olaf explained:
"No,” Count Olaf said, with a frown. “If you were to wash the clay of
Ishmael’s feet, you’d see he has the same tattoo as I do. ”
“Eyeliner?” Guessed Madame Nordoff. “No,” Count Olaf said sharply. “The difference is that Ishmael is unarmed. He abandoned his weapons long ago, during the V.F.D. schism, refusing to use violence of any sort.”
Understanding this gives more significance to the end of ATWQ Book 4. At that time, Lemony was in a VFD that refused to use violence of any kind, and yet Lemony did what he did.
The other event called the Schism was caused by Count Olaf at the time of Lemony’s marriage cancellation. It was at the time of this ICsma that the VFD animals were kidnapped.
TSS Chapter 13:
“Look at these creatures!” cried the woman with hair but no
beard. “When the schism occurred, you may have won the carrier
crows, volunteers, and you may have won the trained reptiles. ”
“Not anymore,” Count Olaf said. “All of the reptiles except one -”
“Don’t interrupt,” the sinister woman interrupted. “You may have
the carrier crows but we have the two most powerful mammals in
the world to our bidding - the lions and eagles! ”
We know this Schism is not the Great Schism because Beatrice and Bertrand trained lions (TBB rare Edition), and Lemony remembers the eagles used to detect fires, em TSS chapter 8:
“I once chopped broccoli while the woman I loved mixed up a spicy
peanut sauce to go with it, and he was pointing up towards the sky,
where my associates and I used to watch the volunteer eagles who
could spot smoke from a very great distance”
Jacques explained that VFD also called Olaf-related events a Schism.
LSTUA chapter 7
… recently this organization has experienced a Schism, a word wich here means “a member suddenly behaving in a greedy and and violent manne and thus dividing the organization into two arguing groups. The member I am speaking of - I will just call O… - has recently done a great deal of vicius, unfair, and impolite acts that I shudder to describe.
In the future I will explain in more detail about Olaf’s Schism, why I will write a text about Olaf’s origin.
