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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 4, 2019 16:34:17 GMT -5
This evidence that Snicket File doesn't talk about Quigley was in front of me all the time, and I didn't realize ... Pay attention to what is written on page 13: "Because of the evidence discussed on page nine," read the sentence above the photograph, "experts now suspect that there may in fact be a survivor of the fire, but the survivor's whereabouts are unknown." Well, you don't have to be an expert to know that there was not just one, but surely there were at least two survivors of the Q mansion fire, Duncan and Isadora. They were at home at the time of the fire and survived the fire. Page 13 does not speak of "one more survivor" but speaks of "one survivor". Then the Snicket File talks about another fire, and another survivor, not Quigley.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 5, 2019 11:51:02 GMT -5
Hmm... okay, I like that because it gives a different spin on the subject.
Would you say the Baudelaires are survivors of the fire that destroyed their home, or no because they weren't home. Are you a survivor of a fire even if it was easy for you to escape the premises, like Duncan and Isadora?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 5, 2019 13:40:11 GMT -5
You surviving a hurricane means you were in the region where the hurricane happened during the hurricane, and yet you stayed alive.
Similarly, you surviving a fire means that you were at the place where the fire happened during the fire and came out of the fire alive.
If you were constantly sleeping in a hurricane shelter and then one night a hurricane happened and some of your neighbors died but you didn't, you survived the hurricane, even though it was relatively easy for you.
Similarly, Ducan and Isadora was indoors when the fire started. Although it was easy for them to escape the fire (I don't think it was that easy because their mother died trying to save them, and she thought their safest place was inside the tunnel) they survived the fire.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2019 15:41:47 GMT -5
I think it's not until TSS and Quigley's story - page 159 - that we're introduced to the idea that Duncan and Isadora were actually at home at the time of the fire, am I correct? I never got the impression until then that they were in the house and therefore qualified as survivors; even with Quigley reporting hearing his siblings screaming, I personally think Duncan and Isadora were outside in the garden and their mother had mistaken their location.
Obligatory reminder that the orientation of the page 13 text and photograph alternate between every single book they appear in.
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