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Post by lsandthebooks on Sept 22, 2019 16:31:04 GMT -5
In the Unauthorized Autobiography, Lemony's obituary in the Daily Punctilio says that there were womanhunts for him, due to a typographical error...
But is it possible that it wasn't an error? Could Lemony actually be a woman? I know he's a man in the Netflix series, but I'm just talking about the books.
I know that in Book 13, the Baudelaire parents were going to name their child (if it was a boy) Lemony...
But I googled the name, and it can be used for men and women. Plus the author seems to like having LGBTQ characters in the series...
And I know that people call him Mr.Snicket all the time, but that could be part of his disguise...
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Post by Dante on Sept 23, 2019 8:47:08 GMT -5
This is, I think, reaching the point of self-parody. "Lemony" is not actually a real name, it's an absurd fabrication by Daniel Handler. I understand that there is a character called "Lemoni" in the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, but as I'm sure you can appreciate, that is not the same thing at all. So I would be extremely suspicious of any assertions on the appropriateness of such a name for men or women in the sense that at this point in time it isn't really a name in the first place.
Moving on. If, as is clear from every single reference and self-reference to him throughout the series, Lemony is universally known as a man, then it would be an error regardless for there to be "womanhunts" for him, even were he secretly female but not publicly identifying or identified as such. And given that this is the only occasion in the series in which a female noun or pronoun is used in reference to Lemony, then I am inclined to regard this theory as over before it's even begun.
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Post by Foxy on Sept 23, 2019 11:46:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Lemony is definitely not a name. Where did Daniel Handler come up with this stuff?
The line about "womanhunts" is just supposed to be funny, probably another jab at TDP and how terrible unreliable of a newspaper it is. I don't think there is ever one other instance where Lemony is referred to as a woman in ATWQ or ASOUE.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 23, 2019 13:35:28 GMT -5
According to TBL, in the country where Lemony live is forbidden two women to marry. The possibility of R marrying Beatrice is pointed to as a remote possibility, since the law forbids two women to marry. So apparently that's not why Beatrice doesn't marry Lemony, so Beatrice and Lemony are of different genres. Assuming Beatrice has definitely become pregnant three times, Beatrice is assumed to be a woman. So Lemony is certainly a man.
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