Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 2, 2019 9:44:35 GMT -5
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Sept 1, 2019 18:02:01 GMT -5 @lsandthebooks said:
I know that in the Unauthorized Autobiography, Ms.K gives ASOUE to the students at Prufrock Prep (and this was definitely before Beatrice was born)
Well ... You must have realized that I totally disagree with that statement. For me, definitely, Miss K went to Prufrock Prep after the publication of at least some of ASOUE's books. And I support the idea that all ASOUE books were written after the main events described in the books themselves. I believe that information about confidential dialogues, thoughts, feelings, and events witnessed only by the Baudelaire sibligns could only come from the Baudelaire sibgligns themselves. (Like what Lemony recounts happened to the caravan. Lemony didn't even find the caravan. So how could he know about the caravan? What about Klaus's sticky mix?)
Also, when Lemony wrote TRR he said about how Klaus felt years later. When Lemony wrote TAA, he wrote that Prufrock Prep had been closed for many years.
And when Lemony was investigating the events involving the Baudelaire siblings in the reptile room, according to LSTUA, he was still trying to publish ASOUE's books through the cheese makers, which was the penultimate way available for Lemony to publish ASOUE. Lemony spent several months researching the events involving the Baudelaire siblings narrated in TSS. He even searched for bones and led to specialists. In TSS Lemony refers to the writing of ASOUE books as spending a large part of his life. When Lemony published TBB the Rare Edition, he stated that it had been years since he had published TBB, and he had not even written book 13. Still, Lemony already knew about the events surrounding the third arrival at Briny Beach, as well as the events narrated on the island. All this indicates that ASOUE was written over many, many years in the Lemony universe. And after Lemony tries to publish ASOUE using other editors.
If Lemony did not interview the Baudelaire siblgins, the only way I understand that Lemony can gain access to information that only the Baudelaire siblings knew is through the island book. It is important to realize that Lemony narrates only the thoughts of the Baudelaires.
The bottom line is that, in my opinion, Miss K is another woman, not Kit. If she had a single book from ASOUE, it was because she was in Prufrock Prep years after the main events narrated in ASOUE. And the problem is that people trying to get chronological explanations for ASOUE have to agree with that. Because if anyone disagrees with that, they are in other words agreeing with Dante, who says Daniel Handler has made chronological errors. This is a valid idea, of course, with which anyone can agree or disagree. But who agrees that Daniel Handler has made chronological errors should not spend time trying to get chronological explanations. Any inconsistency can be explained with a chronological error by Daniel Handler. It is a matter of premise.
Note the statements below:
If Daniel Handler has not made chronological errors, then Miss K is not Kit.
If Daniel Handler has made chronological errors, Miss K may be Kit, but as a result any chronological arguments are invalid.
Excuse me lsandthebooks, I do not want to be rude. But I'm talking to myself more than you.
As a ASOUE theorist, I don't want to limit myself to one possible explanation. I would like to see all possible explanations, and tread down untapped paths, even though it has been many years since ASOUE's publications in our universe. In other words, I want to think, "What if Daniel Handler didn't make serious chronological errors? What are the consequences of this thinking?"