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Post by Foxy on Sept 7, 2019 9:15:54 GMT -5
What I guessed about this was that Jerome was Esme's most recent husband. I'm not sure how many times she might have been married before Jerome, but it could have been more than once. I mean, she's pretty unbearable to live with. Kind of makes you wonder why anyone would marry her in the first place.
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Post by Dante on Sept 7, 2019 11:24:53 GMT -5
To me, what that question was trying to get at was whether "Gigi" or "Geniveve" might have been Esmé's maiden name, and Handler is knocking back the question by suggesting that either of those might have been names inherited from other husbands, too.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 8, 2019 12:48:51 GMT -5
I was wondering too., why Lemony in Book 12 calls Esme "Esme Squalor" in his flashback of how he/Beatrice stole the sugar bowl from her. The sugarbowl incident happened before the Baudelaire kids were born, but Lemony calls her Esme Squalor anyway. Maybe that's just what he is calling her because that's who she's been for a while. I refer to my friends who are married by their married names, even though I knew them before they were married. But that is an interesting point.
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Post by Dante on Sept 9, 2019 10:27:13 GMT -5
I was wondering too., why Lemony in Book 12 calls Esme "Esme Squalor" in his flashback of how he/Beatrice stole the sugar bowl from her. The sugarbowl incident happened before the Baudelaire kids were born, but Lemony calls her Esme Squalor anyway. He also calls Olaf by his disguised names, every single time, even though he knows that Stephano and Captain Sham and Shirley and so on are really Count Olaf. Because Daniel Handler can be, frankly, rather contrary.
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