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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 3, 2019 23:35:02 GMT -5
No ... But I think his identification has nothing special.
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Post by Dante on Sept 4, 2019 10:39:49 GMT -5
For fun. On a strict, deep analysis, I might suggest that his cigar smoke is an absurdist exaggeration of a stereotypical tycoon feature, that along with his unpronounceable name it lends him an element of facelessness that makes him something like a metaphor for any number of faceless businessmen running workers into the ground, and that it makes him almost impossible to relate to. Symbolically we draw a connection to the polluting clouds of factories and the despoiling of the environment by such tycoons as Sir is. It's a pretty deep piece of symbolism, if you want it to be. ...But primarily I think it is just for fun, just another way of playing with the characteristics of the Baudelaires' guardians.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 4, 2019 11:34:05 GMT -5
I agree with Dante. This is like Esme wearing knives as stilettos, or Count Olaf cutting a hole in the porthole of the Queequeg, or Sunny climbing up an elevator shaft with her teeth (which I still think is completely plausible, by the way.) You probably won't see any of this kind of thing in real life.
If there weren't entertaining, goofy things in the books, I think they really would be too depressing and dreary to read.
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