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Post by lsandthebooks on Sept 19, 2019 20:08:37 GMT -5
Does anyone know if anything in the series, hints that the Baudelaire parents may have helped Lemony escape from the villians? And so, the villians burned down the Baudelaire mansion in revenge because they couldn't find Lemony.
Lemony's dedications to Beatrice always make him sound so devastated...and guilty. Especially the dedication from Book 6:
Why would Lemony say her life ended soom afterward...?
If he was on the run for years and years, and then say he visited the Baudelaire mansion one day, what if he accidentally led the villians right to the Baudelaires? The same thing happened in the Unauthorized Autobiography, when Lemony was captured at the Duchess' party. And the police also searched the entire place for him and basically raided her home...
And in Book 1, Lemony describes the aftermath of the fire like this:
To me, this reads like the house was raided too. Why aren't there more objects? If a cushion and a bottle filled with alcohol can survive the fire, there should be more. Plus, the mansion was gigantic, so shouldn't many of the rooms still be fairly intact? How could the fire department arrive too late, to put out a fire that has to consume dozens of rooms? A lot of objects should have survived at the very least.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 20, 2019 6:43:49 GMT -5
I think that dedication in book 6 is a little bit off, because Lemony and Beatrice had known each other since childhood, and Beatrice didn't die until Violet was fourteen. At minimum, they knew each other for nearly two decades before she died.
What I want to know was who played that grand piano.
There probably were more objects, but perhaps they were not all mentioned. It would be a bit dull to read about every single item that there was still a tiny piece of. I don't think many rooms would be intact. We don't know who did it, but they could have set fire to many rooms, even at once if it was a group of people.
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Post by Dante on Sept 22, 2019 4:25:15 GMT -5
The official fire department in the city doesn't appear to be very good - a fact which I suspect was once planned to be important, as indicated in the BBRE, but is now just something we have to accept. It's very clear that the mansion was almost entirely destroyed, and any items that escaped the blaze did so by chance. Perhaps they were sheltered beneath relatively fireproof materials, or themselves constructed of materials unlikely to burn well.
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