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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 20, 2019 5:28:07 GMT -5
I think the best answer I've found so far is, "It's probably Lemony." This answer is consistent with several things, such as Lemony's which narrator knows what happened to the taxi driver and the woman in the trunk of the car. But of course, there is a possibility that Lemony had personally met the taxi driver or woman at a later time before he completed writing the book. In addition, Lemony as a narrator reports on an encrypted sandwich, which he referred to in TSS. This seems to indicate that the volunteer who threw the sugar bowl and the taxi driver are the same person, and there is evidence to suggest that the volunteer who threw the sugar bowl was Lemony. This evidence also involves an olive that Lemony, as a narrator, claims she left in the fridge. Also, inside the fridge is lemonade. Some claim that lemonade is indicative of the sender of the message, whereas "lemonade" is Lemony's nickname. In my case, associated with this, I claim that Lemony by the time he recorded the events, it seems that he already had access to the sugar bowl at a tea house near Briny Beach. That's because in THH, Lemony says that sometimes when he is looking for information about the Baudelaires he goes to a tea house and touches the sugar bowl. This makes me believe that this sugar bowl in question is Esme's sugar bowl. Lemony kept it in a place that was in plain sight, very VFD style. Of course, this is just a hypothesis, and it may be another sugar bowl that exists in the teahouse, but I prefer to believe that I am right and that all who argue against me are wrong, or vice versa. The taxi driver seems to have left the D Hotel area carrying the sugar bowl in the car. So Lemony would be the taxi driver, because Lemony knows where he hid the sugar bowl. But all this evidence is circumstantial. In addition, Lemony knows exactly where the sugar bowl and a diving helmet woman were during the events recorded in TPP. This seems to be very specific and detailed information.
And the fact that the taxi driver is smoking may be so that the villains didn't even imagine that there was a volunteer.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 20, 2019 7:02:46 GMT -5
I have always thought it was Lemony, and Jean Lucio's theory makes me think even more so that it was Lemony. Do you know how exciting of a series we would have gotten if the kids had gotten into the cab? It would have been awesome. But I digress.
Snicket says someone who smokes is somewhere in-between, and I agree with that. I have known nice people who smoke, even though smoking is bad for you.
There are other cab drivers in the series, in TRR and TWW. I am unsure of whether they were all the same person. The one in TWW seems way too chipper to be Snicket, and unless he was making up a story in TRR to fool Olaf, Snicket does not have a new baby of whom I am aware.
It could also be that mysterious person smoking on the cover of TPP, too.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 20, 2019 11:56:52 GMT -5
Foxy, LSTUA shows that pictures of babies are part of the taxi driver disguise.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 21, 2019 12:43:43 GMT -5
In Thirteen Shocking Secrets, we are told that in TRR 'someone important disguised as a taxi driver passes unnoticed'. I suspect this means that the taxi drivers earlier in the series are meant - in retrospect - to be Lemony as well. Indeed, I wonder if the Taxi Driver Disguise in TUA was inserted to make this possible, overcoming the problem of Lemony not having a baby.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 21, 2019 12:47:53 GMT -5
Hmm... I just don't know. In TWW, the guy did not particularly strike me as Lemony-like, and the taxi driver in TPP seems to have an entirely different demeanor. If he had the Baudelaires riding in the back of his cab, I feel like something more would have happened. He had to have recognized them, at least Violet, who looked like her mother. But maybe they are all the same person.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 21, 2019 17:38:38 GMT -5
Violet, who looked like her mother. Foxy... I'm looking for textual proof that Vuolet had been physically like Beatrice for a long time, and I haven't found it yet ... I feel like I read that somewhere, but I don't remember where. Did you see that written, Foxy? |
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Post by Dante on Sept 22, 2019 4:45:11 GMT -5
Hmm... I just don't know. In TWW, the guy did not particularly strike me as Lemony-like, and the taxi driver in TPP seems to have an entirely different demeanor. If he had the Baudelaires riding in the back of his cab, I feel like something more would have happened. He had to have recognized them, at least Violet, who looked like her mother. But maybe they are all the same person. The description of the TPP taxi driver on pages 244-245 seems to deliberately echo the description of the TWW taxi driver on page 9, specifically in the description of both his figure and cigarette as "skinny". It's reasonable to suggest that Lemony might have adopted uncharacteristic mannerisms as a disguise. Violet, who looked like her mother. Foxy... I'm looking for textual proof that Vuolet had been physically like Beatrice for a long time, and I haven't found it yet ... I feel like I read that somewhere, but I don't remember where. Did you see that written, Foxy? The BBRE Author's Notes, note to page 157. It's not explicit, but it's pretty clear what it's suggesting. |
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Post by Foxy on Sept 22, 2019 11:35:41 GMT -5
The rare edition notes of TBB are indeed what I was alluding to with my comment, Jean.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 23, 2019 11:42:56 GMT -5
Thanks!
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