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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:36:06 GMT -5
I wanted to share my complete commonplace book in one thread so if anyone wanted to look up information but was not positive which book the information they were looking for was in, they would be able to find it all on these couple of pages, rather than having to look through each rerereread thread. My computer can't handle putting the entire commonplace book in one post, so I will be using a separate post for each book.
THE BAD BEGINNING
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire
the Baudelaire parents (mentioned)
Mr. Poe
Mrs. Poe (Pollly)
Edgar Poe
Albert Poe
Count Olaf
Justice Strauss
the Baudelaires’ friends (mentioned): people who had fallen by the wayside
a street vendor
woman running a pasta store
bald man with a very long nose
two women who had bright white powder all over their faces
a man with two hooks instead of hands
a person who was extremely fat
an assortment of people (if there were thirteen people minus the three children, Olaf, and the other five henchmen, that leaves four more people in this “assortment.”)
a receptionist at Subservient Financial services
uniformed guard at Mulctuary Money Management
Al Funcoot (mentioned, acronym)
weasel lady and three sons
Macbeth naked actors
three very short men
important-looking man with warts (are these the last four members of the troupe?)
woman with very short hair
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
Grappling hook
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
reading Nuptial Law
SUNNY’S BITING:
attempted unsuccessfully to bite the hook-handed man’s hooks
SNICKET SECRETS:
In his room, he has gathered a dusty accordion, a large bundle of notes on the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph of Beatrice
LITERARY REFERENCES (real and made up):
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Inheritance Law and Its Implications
Nuptial Law
SNICKETISMS:
the one about losing someone important to you
the one about first impressions being entirely wrong
the one about avoiding people when they need their friends most
the one about having a good session of weeping to feel better
the one about literally and figuratively
the one about there being many types of books in the world
the one about reading the same sentence over and over again
the one about casing the joint
the one about bakers having to sell bread at the same price, island forbidding anyone to remove fruit, and a town barring him from coming with five miles of its borders
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
The children were allowed to attend family dinner parties, and Mr. Poe was also present.
Klaus didn’t like Sunny when she was first brought home from the hospital, but by the time she was six week old the two of them were thick as thieves.
The children got up early to make breakfast for their parents, and Violet burned the toast. Their parents laughed and made pancakes.
Klaus used to read under his covers until he couldn’t keep his eyes open. His father would find him.
The parents told Violet to look after her younger siblngs.
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Aberrant: very, very wrong, and causing much grief
Adroit: skillful
Blanched: boiled
Briskly: quickly, so as to get the Baudelaire children to leave the house
Faking: feigning
Fallen by the wayside: they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them very lonely
Incentive: an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don’t want to do
Incurring: bringing about
Insipied: dull and foolish
Lamentably deplorable: it was not at all enjoyable
Of two minds: they felt two different ways at the same time
Relinquished: gave to Count Olaf even though he didn’t want to
Rickety: unsteady or likely to collapse
Simmered: cooked over low heat
Taken in confidence: kept a secret between Mr. Poe and themselves and not blabbed to Count Olaf
Testily: in an extremely annoyed tone
SUNNY SPEECH:
Angry Bird Noise – “Pick me up.”
Book! – “Please don’t forget to pick out a picture book for me.”
Book! – Would somebody please wipe my face?
Cake! -
Gack! – “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!”
Gibbo! – “And I could have lots of things to bite.”
Hux! -
Jook! –
Neepo! -
No! No! No! -
Odo yow! – “How do you do?”
Oh! – “What a terrible place! I don’t want to live there at all!”
Poko!
Wipi! – I’d much prefer gardening to sitting around watching my siblings struggle through law books.
Yeeka! – “How interesting!”
GEOGRAPHY:
Doldrum Drive
Fickle Fountain
enormous pile of dirt where the Royal Gardens once stood
meat district
flower district
sculpture district
banking district
Fountain of Victorious Finance
Trustworthy Bank
Faithful Savings and Loan
Subservient Financial Services
Mulctuary Money Management
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:36:35 GMT -5
THE REPTILE ROOM
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1)
Baudelaire parents (mentioned) (1)
Count Olaf/Stephano
Mr. Poe (1)
Dr. Montgomery Montgomery (Uncle Monty): “…your late father’s cousin’s wife’s brother.” Receives a great deal of money from the government. (1)
Gustav (mentioned) (2): was picking wildflowers at time of death
Madame diLustro (mentioned) (3) Also mentioned in a later book. Excellent detective. Fine cook. Flies into a rage if you arrive even five minutes late.
taxi driver (3): had a new baby
Gerta (6): Little milkmaid, Zombies in the Snow
Dr. Lucafont/Hook-Handed Man (8)
Bela (11)
three men in overalls (13)
Bruce (13): director of marketing for the herpetological society
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
lockpick (11)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
Mamba du Mal kill strategy (9)
SUNNY’S BITING:
the Hook-Handed Man’s fake hands (13)
THE LIBRARY:
Uncle Monty’s library on reptiles
SNICKET SECRETS:
He went to a formal dinner party at Madame diLustro’s (3)
He wrote chapter 11 on his friend Bela’s yacht. (11)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
An Introduction to Large Lizards(2)
The Big Peruvian Book of Small Peruvian Snakes (3)
The Boy Who Cried Wolf (9)
The Care and Feeding of the Androgynous Cobra (2)
Little Red Riding Hood (9)
Zombies in the Snow (5)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about dramatic irony (3)
the one about regrets (4)
the one about waiting being one of life’s hardships (4)
the one about somebody being a little bit wrong or surpassingly wrong (5)
the one about profanity (7)
the one about the death of a loved one and walking up the stairs in the dark (7)
the one about being proven wrong, right? (8)
the one about fifth, sixth, and seventh wheels (8)
the one about “meanwhile, back at the ranch” (9)
the one about the boy who cried wolf (10)
the one about the two basic types of panicking (10)
the page of “ever”s (11)
the one about ignoring a ridiculous lie entirely (12)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
The children painted their toenails bright red and spilled some on the yellow chair. (3)
One night all three children had a horrible flu, and their father tried to soothe them. (5)
Four years ago, Violet’s hair was very short and she had invented a pencil sharpener. Klaus had been interested in comets. (5)
Violet would listen at her parents’ bedroom door to hear what they might be planning for her birthday. (9)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Add insult to injury: forcing somebody to do an unpleasant task when they’re already very upset (7)
Alcove: a very, very small nook just perfect for sitting and reading (3)
Brummagem: fake (7)
Come clean: admit that he’s really Count Olaf and up to no good (12)
Come to fruition: the Baudelaires were finally to learn of it (6)
Constant Surveillance: kept watching them so they couldn’t possibly talk to Uncle Monty alone and reveal that he was really Count Olaf. (5)
Crude: Roughly made at the last minute (11)
Dumbly: without speaking (6)
Earshot: close enough to hear him (9)
Entertaining: thinking (9)
Generic: when one is unable to think of anything else to say (6)
Hackneyed: used by so, so many writers that by the time Lemony Snicket uses it, it is a tiresome cliché (9)
Hash this out: talk about something at length until we completely understand it (6)
Inner Sanctum: filthy room in which evil plans are devised (9)
Insipid: not worth reading to someone (9)
Oblivious: not aware that Stephano was really Count Olaf and thus being in a great deal of danger (6)
Needle in a haystack: something that is difficult to find (11)
Nemesis: the worst enemy you could imagine (4)
Perpetuate his deception: lie, lie, lie (12)
Ruffians: horrible people (13)
Segue: let the conversation veer off (3)
Take the cake: more horrible things have happened to them than just about anybody (1)
Transpired: happened and made everybody sad (9)
Vanglorious: Braggy (5)
Vanity: Count Olaf thinking he’s the most incredible person who ever lived (10)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Afoop!: No (8)
Akroid!: Roger! (9)
Archo!: And the stain never really came out(3)
Bax!: I’m nervous about meeting a new relative. (1)
Brilliant!: Brilliant! (13)
Deepo! (5)
Dixnik?: (13)
Divo soom?: (6)
Doog!: (generic cry of frustration) (6)
Eojip!: I would be thrilled to bire an enormous length of rope into small, workable pieces! (2)
Fut!: I do not! (4)
Futa!: I agree! (4)
Gerja!: Well, let’s go find out what Stephano is like! (3)
Guweel!: (Not me) (12)
Hooda!: (How do you do?) (3)
Jose!: No way! (7)
Kindal!: Or maybe he’s excited about us (3)
Libo!: Good-bye
Meeka!: Good-bye, Mr. Poe. Thank you for driving us. (2)
Minda!: Don’t be ridiculous, Klaus!
No, no, no.: No (2)
Okipi!: (some kind of agreement) (9)
Roofik!: (agreement) (12)
Tadu: It’s a loathsome situation in which we find ourselves. (6)
Tikko: some kind of agreement
Tojoo: (something about agreement) (4)
Viper!: Viper! (13)
Yeet!: Good-bye (13)
Yinga (5)
GEOGRAPHY:
Hazy Harbor (1)
Tedia (1)
Lousy Lane (1)
Grim River (nine-tenths mud, contains extremely unnerving fish) (1)
horseradish factory (1)
Peru (2)
Swarthy Swamp (13)
FOODOLOGY:
Coconut Cream Cake (2)
Raw Carrot (2)
Canned peaches (3)
Stroganoff (5)
Toast (5)
Cereal (5)
Coffee (8)
THE REPTILES:
very fat toad with two wings (2)
two-headed lizard with bright yellow stripes on its belly (2)
snake with three mouths, one on top of the other (2)
snake with no mouth (2)
lizard which looked like an owl (2)
toad which looked like a church (2)
Incredibly Deadly Viper (2)
snake whose venom is so deadly your heart would stop before you knew you were bitten (3)
snake who could swallow everyone up whole (3)
pair of snakes who drive a car recklessly (3)
Alaskan Cow Lizard (3): produced delicious milk
Dissonant Toad (3): imitates human speech in a gravelly voice
Inky Newt (3): produces black dye
Irascible Python (3): grumpy and best left alone
Green Gimlet Toad (3): never to be given too much water
Virginian Wolfsnake (3): never to be let near a typewriter
Mongolian Meansnake (4): ate white mice for dinner
Hungarian Sloth Snake (5): top pace is half an inch per hour
Mamba du Mal
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:37:08 GMT -5
THE WIDE WINDOW
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1)
Mr. Poe (1)
Josephine Anwhistle (Aunt Josephine) (1): “your second cousin’s sister-in-law
cab driver (1): smokes, runs over cats
Ike Anwhistle (mentioned) (2): death by Lachrymose leeches, could whistle Beethoven’s fourth quartet with crackers in his mouth
Count Olaf/Captain Julio Sham/a rabbi (3)
Ike’s mother (3): had only one eyebrow, and also only one ear
the king of Denmark (4): sells golf balls
your dentist (4): also your grandmother
Gina-Sue (4): Snicket’s friend
Larry (7): also in TUA, clown waiter at the Anxious Clown
someone at Mr. Poe’s bank (7): also has terrible allergies
your mail person (9)
a person so massive that it looked like an enormous blob was in the shack (9): he or she was drinking beer!
Dr. Lorenz (11): Snicket’s friend who knows about the principles of the convergence and refraction of light
two fishermen (13): find Aunt Josephine’s life jackets when the Baudelaires are at Prufrock Prep
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
time (6/7), signaling device (11)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
grammatical errors (8)
SUNNY’S BITING:
Key stealing (9), Captain Sham’s peg leg
THE LIBRARY:
Aunt Josephine’s grammar library
SNICKET SECRETS:
He had chilled cucumber soup in Egypt while visiting a snake charmer friend. (2)
He once had cards printed saying he was an admiral in the French navy. (4)
He was writing in the middle of the night in his room in his house. There is a graveyard by his house. (5)
He has seen corridors built of human skulls, a volcano erupt and send lava toward a village, and the woman he loved picked up by enormous eagles and flown to a nest. (8)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
Basic Rules of Grammar and Punctuation (8)
Handbook for Advanced Apostrophe Use (8)
The Correct Spelling of Every English Word That Ever, Ever Existed (8)
The Tides of Lake Lachrymose (8)
The Bottom of Lake Lachrymose (8)
Lachrymose Trout (8)
The History of Damocles Dock Region (8)
Ivan Lachrymose – Lake Explorer (8)
How Water Is Made (8) (Is this what Snicket used to torment us in TGG???)
A Lachrymose Atlas (8)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about two kinds of fear (2)
the one about keeping your pimple in perspective (3)
the one about transparent disguises (3)
the one about falling for something hook, line, and sinker (3)
the one about business cards (4)
the one about locking the barn after the horses are gone (4)
the one about the Venus flytrap (5)
the one about tears being a curious thing (5)
the one about graphologists (6)
the one about a chameleon (7)
the one about allergies (7)
the one about the USPS (9)
the one about stealing (9)
the one about the publishers being concerned about our safety (10)
the one about “speak of the devil” (11)
the one about frustration (11)
the one about Alexander the Great (12)
the one about morals of stories (13)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Their mother could whistle Mozart’s fourteenth symphony with crackers in her mouth. (2)
Violet hid an automatic harmonica which made horrible noises, Klaus hid a book on the Franco-Prussian War which was too difficult for him, and Sunny hid a piece of stone too hard for her to bite, all under their
beds. (8)
Violet again remembers the promise she made to her parents to take care of her younger siblings. (11)
The Baudelaire’s father told Violet about his female cousin who liked to burn ants with the sun and her magnifying glass. (11)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Abhorrent: what Count Olaf used to do when he was about your age (11)
Assuaged: relieved (13)
Break out in hives: be covered in red, itchy rashes for a few hours (1)
Brobdingnagian: unbelievable husky (9)
Broke: ended (10)
Chameleonic: able to blend in with any situation (7)
Copious: lots of (8)
Dashed: shattered (3)
Futile: filled with futility (3)
Garish: filled with balloons, neon lights, and obnoxious waiters (7)
Great Gusto: in a way which produced a great deal of phlegm (6)
Impertinent: pointing out that I’m wrong, which annoys me (4)
It dawned on them: they figured something out (13)
Keeping things in perspective: making yourself feel better by comparing the things that are happening to you right now against other things that have happened at a different time, or to different people (3)
Maracas: rattling percussion instruments used in Latin American music (8)
Mast: the tall wooden post found in the middle of boats (10)
Minimal pain: no pain at all (9)
Mixed blessing: something half good and half bad (11)
Mollify: get them to stop tearing their hair out in worry (10)
No way, José: No way (10)
Personage: person (3)
Phantasmagorical: all the creepy, scary words you can think of put together (10)
Pilums: (she was thanking Violet for inventing the signaling device and Klaus for read the atlas and guiding them to Curdled Cave) (13)
Played his trump card: said something very convincing, which he has saved for the end of the argument (10)
Precariously: in a way which almost threw Aunt Josephine and the Baudelaire youngsters to their doom (11)
Resolutely: as if she believed it, even though she wasn’t so sure (9)
Utmost: most (7)
Wunderkind: someone who is able to quickly climb masts on boats being attacked by leeches (11)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Aget!: Please stop fighting! (5)
Aha!: Aha! (5)
Bero?: Are you crazy? (11)
Bluh: Please continue, Klaus (8)
Choin!: That seems a little drastic, even for Count Olaf. (4)
Chuni!: Let’s go to the kitchen and get it. (6)
Cind: (agreement) (10)
Coik!: Thinkabout about all this is making me dizzy! (8)
Curdled veek?: Curdled what? (8)
Delmo!: If you wish, I will bite the telephone to show you that it’s harmless. (2)
Doma: (agreement) (4)
Duna!: Of course you do! (7)
Entro!: And we don’t have enough time to walk about the lake, either. (9)
Fonti!: (11)
Frul!: (so long) (1)
Gans!: Good, because my hives are driving me crazy! (8)
Geni: We didn’t sail a stolen sailboat across Lake Lachrymose in the middle of Hurricane Herman just to stand nervously at the mouth of a cave. (10)
Gind!: Please don’t make us live with this evil man. (6)
Ging!: I would rather eat dirt. (3)
Gluh?: Why are you wasting valuable time studying grammar? (8)
Grun!: I object to your calling it baby talk! (2)
Haftu!: Maybe he wants to put the Lachrymose Leeches in our beds. (4)
Igal!: And I’ll guard Aunt Josephine. (12)
Irm!: (agreement) (2)
Karg tem!: I’m going to move the tille this way, in order to steer the boat according to Klaus’s recommendation. (10)
Leep!: Captain Sham threw Aunt Josephine out the window and then wrote this note to hide his crime. (5)
Legru: All we can do is hope. (12)
Minka!: Answer it, of course! (4)
Mofee!: I certainly will. (11)
Neihab!: I’m Sunny Baudelaire, and I will always be Sunny Baudelaire unless I decide for myself to legally change my name! (12)
Niku!: It wasn’t very nice to point out Klaus’s grammatical mistake when he was talking about something that upset him. (3)
Ober!: Although we still didn’t save Uncle Monty. (4)
Poch!: You mean Julio. (4)
Poda rish!: (Put me down!) (9)
Schu!: It’s been a long time since anything in our lives has felt fair. (2)
Seeka yit: (under the bed) (8)
Stim!: Because we were worried about you! (10)
Swoh!: Why in the world would you go swimming in a lake full of leeches? (2)
Tafca!: We have to get out of here right now! (8)
Tintet: Don’t cry. You tried your best. (11)
Toi!: I have never eaten a peppermint because I suspect that I, like my siblings, am allergic to them OR I wish I could bite a peppermint, because I like to bite things with my four sharp teeth, but I don’t want to risk an allergic reaction. (1)
Twee!: Both of you are right. We shouldn’t complain. (2)
Vass!: Let’s discuss this at another time. (9)
Vestu! (4)
Yadec!: Look at the crack in the boat that the leeches have made! (11)
Zax!: Well, at least there isn’t a sign of Count Olaf anywhere. (3)
GEOGRAPHY:
Damocles Dock (1)
Lake Lachrymose (1)
Look! It Fits! (clothing store) (1)
Anxious Clown (1)
the market (3)
Captain Sham’s Sailboats (3)
Hopalong Dancing School (4)
Curdled Cave (8)
Carp Cove (8)
Chartreuse Island (8)
Cloudy Cliffs (8)
Condiment Bay (8)
Lavendar Lighthouse (8)
Wicked Whirlpool (10)
Rancorous Rocks (10)
FOODOLOGY:
Peppermints (1)
Banana bread (2)
Chilled Cucumber Soup (2)
Cold Lime Stew (3)
Extra Fun Special Family Appetizer (7): a bunch of things fried up together and served with sauce. Yuck.
Coffee with non-dairy creamer (7): Mr. Poe’s beverage at the Anxious Clown
Cheer-Up Cheeseburgers (7)
Banana (11)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:37:39 GMT -5
THE MISERABLE MILL
CHARACTERS:
a family of little chipmunks (mentioned) (1): lived in a hollow tree
Emily (mentioned) (1): doesn’t eat her blueberry pancakes
Emily’s mother (mentioned) (1): doesn’t make her daughter eat her blueberry pancakes
Gary (mentioned) (1): baseball player
Larry (mentioned) (1): Gary’s best friend. Probably not a waiter
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1)
Mr. Poe (1): receives promotion to Vice President in Charge of Coins
Count Olaf/Shirley
Sir (1): Mr. Wuz – Mr. Qui – Mr. Bek – Mr. Duy – Mr. Sho – Mr. Gek
Phil (2)
An assortment of people, men and women, all of whom looked tired and all of whom were covered in sawdust (2): some of these people are Sir’s cousins (10)
Foreman Firstein (mentioned) (2)
Foreman Flacutono/bald man (2)
Charles (4)
The Paltryville mayor (mentioned) (4)
Tatiana (7): the friend who made the sculpture
Dr. Georgina Orwell (8)
Egyptian king (mentioned) (8)
Chinese merchant (mentioned) (8)
a man who lived in England (mentioned) (8)
VIOLET’S RESEARCH:
reading Advanced Ocular Science (11)
KLAUS’S INVENTION:
A debarker and gum (12)
SUNNY’S BITING:
sword-fighting Dr. Orwell (12)
THE LIBRARY:
Charles’ library at the mill
SNICKET SECRETS:
He once saw a sign that said “Beware” in letters made of dead monkeys. (1)
Beatrice wrote him a two-hundred-page book detailing why she could not marry him. This book arrived by carrier pigeons. (2)
He was possibly smuggled out of the country on a sailboat in exchange for giving a woman free tickets to an ice show. (4)
A policeman once tripped him while he was carrying a crystal ball belonging to e Gypsy fortune-teller. Olivia? (5)
A friend of his made a sculpture called Twisted, Cracked, and Hopelessly Broken. (5)
His chauffeur once told him he would feel better in the morning, but when he woke up they were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles. Is this a reference to the island? Is there a reference to the island in every book?(7)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The History of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill by Sir (4)
The Paltryville Constitution (4)
Advanced Ocular Science by Dr. Orwell (4)
Encyclopedia Hypnotica (8)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about the first sentence of a book (1)
the one about planning a vacation and using a guidebook (1)
the one about receiving bad news through written word (2)
the one about how you never know (2)
the one about an alligator chewing off an optimist’s arm (2)
the one about how you spend your morning (3)
the one about appearance mattering (3)
the one about looking at yourself in the mirror (4)
the one about a fair deal (4)
the one about doctors not necessarily being your friends (6)
the one about “quiet as mice/quiet as mimes” (6)
the one about a miserable experience feeling better in the morning (7)
the one about self-esteem (9)
the one about it being helpful to have someone there to help you solve a difficult problem (11)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
One time the Baudelaires had opened a lemonade stand in front of their house (3)
They had a library with all kinds of books. (4)
Klaus’s mouth has always quivered when he sleeps, even when he was a tiny baby. (6)
Their mother used to brush small things out of their hair all the time. (7)
Violet again remembers her parents telling her to look after her younger siblings. (7)
There was a huge dictionary in their parents’ library, and Klaus used it to look up difficult words. (11)
Klaus read a book on different kinds of fish, and his mother to him fishing at a nearby lake, where they caught no fish. (12)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Askew: tilted to one side from leaning over logs the entire morning (4)
Backbreaking: so difficult and tiring that it fell like the orphans’ backs were breaking, even though they actually weren’t (5)
Bootless: useless and worthless (10)
Cacophony: the sound of two metal pots being banged together by a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all (3)
Cahoots: working with, in order to capture the Baudelaire fortune (9)
Daunting: full of incredibly difficult words (11)
Fatal accident: one that kills somebody (12)
Grotesque: twisted, tangled, stained and gory (7)
Gum up the works: something that stops the progress of something else (12)
Hair’s breadth: a teeny-tiny measurement (12)
Ineffectual: unable to get Klaus unhypnotized (11)
Lion’s share: the biggest part (11)
Low self-esteem: describes children who do not think much of themselves (9)
Met her demise: stepped into the path of the sawing machine (13)
Nefarious: Baudelaire-hating (8)
Ocular: related to the eye (4)
Optimist: a person, such as Phil, who thinks hopeful and pleasant thoughts about nearly everything.
Ostentatiously: really, really (7)
Pathetic: depressing and containing no windows (2)
Quizzically: because he didn’t know that he caused the accident that hurt Phil’s leg (9)
Split hairs: aruge over something that’s not at all important (12)
Stylistic consistency: books that are similar from start to finish (11)
Unnerving: twisted, tangled, stained and gory (7)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Ballywot!: She’s Count Olaf in disguise! (9)
Batex: But we’re not laying eyes on one another! (4)
Becer!: (agreement) (6)
Bram!: And our last name is Baudelaire. (3)
Brewol: And I’ll go back to sleep. (11)
Casca: That’s not very reassuring. (1)
Chorn!: And his voice sounds nothing like Count Olaf’s (5)
Cigam!: Look at this note! (2)
Croif: It was lucky that I could defend us from Dr. Orwell’s sword, if I do say so myself. (13)
Deluny!: You’re not just a bad foreman-you’re an evil person! (12)
Derex!: If we can’t prevent him from going to Dr. Orwell, at least we can go with him! (7)
Dinel: (10)
Dolc!: And I could be a dentist! (5)
Egu!: (12)
Elund!: It certainly is perplexing. (5)
Eshan!: (7)
Fiti!: That nameplate doesn’t prove anything, of course! (9)
Garj!: (wondering what the word “endeavor” meant) (11)
Ghand!: But Klaus reads many complicated books! (1)
Gice!: Don’t hurt Charles! (12)
Grummle?: (7)
Guree: (agreement) (9)
Ha!: Ha! (8)
Hech!: But you didn’t keep your end of the deal, either! (13)
Heece: Beats me. I’m only a baby. (11)
Hmmm?: Hmmm? (11)
Kewtu!: (12)
Klaus!: Klaus! (6)
Libu: (doubt) (6)
Mazée!: We don’t have time to hear all these stories, Klaus! (8)
Molub!: We’re talking about the typed note that told us to go to work at the lumbermill! (4)
Nelnu!: (3)
Nojeemoo!: You appear to be back to normal. (7)
Oh toonoy!: (Oh no you can’t!) (12)
Palsh! (10)
Pelli!: But that doesn’t explain the eye-shaped building, or the cover of the book! (5)
Plemo!: Who works for Count Olaf! (13)
Popinsh!: Dr. Orwell hypnotized Klaus and caused that terrible accident, didn’t she? (9)
Roopish!: They’re not accidents! They’re the results of hypnotism! (9)
Rotup!: (5)
Skel: But I wonder what that word could be. (11)
Snevi!: (2)
Stintamcunu: (6)
Suski: I hope so, Phil. (6)
Tanco!: And babies shouldn’t even have gum, because they could choke on it! (3)
Tenpa: (agreement) (5)
Teruca?: What’s a foreman? (2)
Tuzmo: I don’t believe so. (8)
Ulo?: Will you have Dr. Orwell arrested? (10)
Varni: (agreement) (1)
Weleef!: But he was in disguise, as usual! (13)
Wiro: That’s true, but I’m still worried about Klaus. (7)
Wora: If someone had to me, that day at the beach, that before long I’d find myself using my four teeth to scrape the bark off trees, I would have said they were psychoneurotically disturbed. (4)
Wub: I hope so, too. (10)
Yash!: And if only Klaus weren’t hypnotized, then he could tell us what this sentence means. (11)
Yoryar!: (5)
GEOGRAPHY:
Camp Timbertops (1) (mentioned)
Finite Forest (1)
Paltryville (1)
Mulctuary Money Management (1) (mentioned)
Paltryville Station (1)
Lucky Smells Lumbermill (1)
a post office (1)
Dr. Orwell’s office (1)
Ahab Memorial Hospital (7): where Phil was taken after his leg was broken
FOODOLOGY:
casserole (2)
chewing gum (3)
pizza (4)
carrot, apple, beef enchilada (5): all foods Sunny loves
cookies (8): Shirley made them, so they probably are not very good
omelettes (10)
raisins (10)
milkshake (13)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:38:58 GMT -5
THE AUSTERE ACADEMY
CHARACTERS:
Carmelita Spats (1)
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1): a little bit larger than a loaf of bread
Count Olaf/ Coach Genghis
the other students at Prufrock Prep (1)
Mr. Poe (1): compared to a jar of mustard
Vice Principal Nero (1)
Miss Tench (2): former gym teacher, fell out of a third-story window a few days before this story takes place
Uncle Elwyn (3): a pig farmer?
eleven nuns (3): baked an enormous lasagna
Metal-masked people/white-faced women (3)
Duncan Quagmire (3)
Isadora Quagmire (3)
Quagmire parents (mentioned) (3)
Quigley Quagmire (mentioned) (3)
Professor Reed (4): friend of Snicket’s, a painter
Mr. Remora (4): taught at the school for more than forty-seven years
Mrs. Bass (4): later arrested for bank robbery (6); also taught at the school for more than forty-seven years
Edward (4): character in one of Mr. Remora’s stories; owns a green truck; visited a farm with geese and cows
celery farmers (8)
bishop (10)
rich widow (10)
Nikola Tesla (10)
Dorothy Parker (10)
Hammurabi (10)
Lord Byron (10)
shark (10)
duchess of Winnipeg (11)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
noisy shoes (3), staple-making invention (10)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
fungus extermination (5), studying for comprehensive exams (11)
SUNNY’S BITING:
biting Coach Genghis’s shoes off (13)
THE LIBRARY:
The school library
SNICKET SECRETS:
His friend, Professor Reed, painted him a triptych called What Happened to Beatrice. It has a fire, a typewriter, and Beatrice. (4)
He was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs. (9)
He once attended a masked ball hosted by the duchess of Winnipeg disguised as a bullfighter. The palace guards were scorpions. He hadn’t seen Beatrice in fifteen years. She was wearing a dragonfly costume, and he was trying to warn her about Count Olaf. (11)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
Moss Mysteries
Bangkok Gazette
Verona Daily News
SNICKETISMS:
the one about giving out gold medals (1)
the one about shyness (1)
the one about how everyone will die, especially if you don’t look both ways before crossing the street (1)
the one about tradition being no reason to do something (2)
the one about making a mountain out of a molehill (3)
the one about following suit (5)
the one about listening to a piece of classical music and attempting to guess what inspired the composer (5)
the one about there being two types of “what?” in the world (7)
the one about “if we’re stalks of celery” (8)
the one about the prism of experience (9)
the one about falling off the wayside (9)
the one about assumptions (12)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
A few months before he died, the Baudelaire’s father told the children there is no worse sound in the world than somebody who cannot play the violin who insists on doing so anyway. Violet and Klaus enjoyed playing checkers, and Sunny enjoyed ripping up old newspapers. (2)
When Violet was ten and Klaus was eight, their family went to a county fair to see their Uncle Elwyn’s pig. They also saw an enormous lasagna baked by eleven nuns. (3)
Klaus measured the width of all the doorways in the Baudelaire mansion (4)
The family went to Rutabaga River, but their father forgot to pack silverware, and they had to eat sweet-and-sour shrimp with their hands. Violet invented a fishing rod she used, and Klaus picked blackberries while Sunny bit rocks. (6)
They waved to their parents before they left for the beach. (11)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Advanced: having attained advancement (1)
Adversity: trouble (1)
Austere: stern and severe (6) or Mr. Remora’s stories were particularly boring, Mrs. Bass’s obsession with the metric system was particularly irritating, and Nero’s administrative demands were particularly difficult (7)
Autopilot: measuring pencils without really thinking about them (7)
Bit his tongue: he simply kept quiet (6)
Come hell or high water: using a fork, a few teaspoons of creamed spinach, a small potato, a live crab, and noisy shoes (11)
Fifth wheel: not in a position to do anything particularly helpful (7)
Foisted: gave (13)
Gingerly: avoiding territorial crabs (3)
Glaze over: ache slightly out of boredom (4)
Incredulously: not being able to believe it (2)
Inevitable: a lifetime of horror and woe (5)
Let your schoolwork fall by the wayside: flunk (9)
Plan! (9)
Poor teacher: a teacher who is obsessed with the metric system (4)
Ruefully: while pointing at a rude, violent, and filthy little girl (9)
Stapled like mad: Quickly and accurately (12)
Symbolic: the glowing circle felt like it stood for more than merely a track (9)
Taken a page out of Nero’s book: learned how to repeat things in a mocking way, in order to make fun of children (7)
Veranda: a porch made of polished gray marble (11)
Waning: dim, and making everything look extra-creepy (7)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Abax!: (agreement) (11)
Aeginu!: And the assistant that looks like neither a man nor a woman. (5)
Aregg: What? I can’t believe it. (2)
Bloni: (agreement) (3)
Ceju: We have to find out. (13)
Denada. (10)
Drat!: (6)
Eroos: And I bit rocks. (6)
Galuka!: So yell at Coach Genghis, not at us! (9)
Gargaba!: Maybe the luminous paint is serving as some sort of glowing signal. (7)
Gefidio!: (How do you do, Coach Genghis?) (5)
Gyba!: You’re a genius! But what can I do to help? (11)
Ivoser: I bet I can use my four sharp teeth to scrape this paint away and make the walls a bit less ugly. (3)
Hifijoo!: (agreement) (9)
Kalc!: Don’t worry about it. I’m a baby, so I hardly ever use silverware. It doesn’t matter that it’ll be taken away from me. (3)
Keeb!: I like fruit. (2)
Kosbal!: Here comes Carmelita Spats. (6)
Lirt!: We can see if any of his assistants are around. (5)
Marimo: I hope there are plenty of things to bite at school, because biting things is one of my favorite things to do. (1)
Merd!: That’s what we’ve been trying to tell you. (13)
Mumdum! (9)
Nidop: Then let’s get moving. (10)
Nilikoh: And we haven’t seen either of the Quagmire triplets, so I think we can safely assume that their part of the plan went well. (12)
Olo: Even if it’s ugly, damp, and filled with crabs. (3)
Ooladu!: I wish you’d tell us what you’re really up to, Genghis. (7)
Oot: Trust me, it’s not that difficult. (6)
Pilso!: My stapling hand is sore. (12)
Racho: (agreement) (1)
Rantaw!: I never wanted to work as a secretary, anyway! (13)
Roger. (11)
Sappho!: I’d be very pleased to hear a poem of yours! (3)
Seltepia!: Good morning, this is Vice Principal Nero’s office, how may I help you? (4)
Shablo: How are we going to do that? (11)
Soap? (11)
Soup! (6)
Stewak: He follows us everywhere. (5)
Sticky! (6)
Tarcour: You’re right, of course. S.O.R.E. always lasts until darn, and the tests are first thing in the morning. (10)
Terfunt: Thank you. (1)
Toricia!: (agreement) (7)
Ushilo!: That doesn’t prove anything! (9)
Volasocks!: If you were really Olaf in disguise, then your running shoes would be covering your tattoo! (6)
Wonic: And learning secretarial skills is an exciting opportunity for me, although I should really be in nursery school instead. (3)
Zatwal!: (We’d love to see the library.) (3)
Zubu: Or attend a different school, under different names. (11)
GEOGRAPHY:
Prufrock Preparatory School (1): possibly the fifth option Mr. Poe tried for schools
Mulctuary Money Management (mentioned) (1)
Administrative building (2)
Room 1 (2)
Room 2 (2)
Cafeteria (2)
Auditorium (2)
Orphans Shack (3)
Rutabaga River (6)
Bangkok (10)
Verona (10)
FOODOLOGY:
Fresh fruit (2)
Lasagna (3)
Green salad (3)
Garlic bread (3)
Oatmeal (6)
Sweet-and-sour shrimp (6)
Scrambled eggs (6)
Spaghetti (7)
Meatloaf (7)
bag of flour (10)
creamed spinach (11)
potato (11)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:39:33 GMT -5
THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR
CHARACTERS:
Mr. Poe (1): promoted to Vice President in Charge of Orphan Affairs (1)
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1): scarcely larger than a salami
Mr. Jerome Squalor (2)
Mrs. Esmé Gigi Geniveve Squalor (2): the city’s sixth most important financial advisor
Duncan Quagmire
Isadora Quagmire
Quigley Quagmire (mentioned) (1)
Quagmire parents (mentioned) (1)
the doorman/hook-handed man (1)
family of seven (3): mother and father lost their jobs, can’t afford to live in one-room apartment
twelve millionaires (3)
Count Olaf/Gunther (3)
Waiters and waitresses (5)
Galileo (5)
Junichiro Tanizaki (5)
sharp-toothed mountain lion (5)
King of Arizona (6)
Ben: Violet’s friend who gave her some elevator blueprints for her birthday (7)
mailman (11)
Man in sunglasses (12)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
welding torches (8)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
the In Auction catalog (9)
SUNNY’S BITING:
climbing up the elevator shaft (10)
V.F.D.:
Very Fancy Doilies
THE LIBRARY:
Esmé’s In library
SNICKET SECRETS:
He wants his execution to be cancelled. (1)
Just the other day, it was useful and necessary for him to have an unpleasant argument with a medical student because he needed to borrow his speedboat so he would not be chained inside a very small, waterproof room instead of sitting in a typewriter factory typing this story. (4)
He was wondering if he would be able to saw through his handcuffs and crawl out of a double-locked window. (6)
One of his prized posessions is a small wooden box with a special lock. It is more than five hundred years old and works with a secret code his grandfather taught him. There is a small silver key inside, and it opens another slightly larger wooden box given to him by a woman his grandfather refused to speak about. Inside the large box is a roll of parchment with a map of the city. The twelve previous owners of the map are dead. (11)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
Boots Were In in 1812 (3)
Trout: In France They’re Out (3)
Hansel and Gretel (6)
Hercules (10)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about the difference between nervous and anxious (1)
the one about a mixed bag (3)
the one about “Oh.” (3)
the one about the table of elements (4)
the one about arguing being useful and necessary to do (4)
the one about eating too much liquid carpet cleaner (5)
the one about morning being the best time for thinking (6)
the one about a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea (7)
the one about five burglars specializing in rope (7)
the one about not being 1/27 okay (7)
the one about waiting rooms (8)
the one about troublesome things becoming less troublesome the more you do them (9)
the one about a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket (9)
the one with two completely black pages (10)
the one about the prestigious Door Prize (11)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Their parents attended the Sixteenth Annual Run-a-Thon and were too tired to stand and make dinner afterward, so they had salad. (2)
The Baudelaire’s mother hiked up Mount Fraught twenty years ago, and something swooped out of the sky. (2)
Violet was inspired to be an inventor when she was just two years old. (3)
Klaus’s father used to take him to the Akhmatova bookstore to by encyclopedia volumes and atlases. (3)
Sunny was born at the Pincus Hospital. (3)
Their mother used to love auctions. (3)
Beatrice stole from Esmé Squalor. (10)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Alleviated: not particularly on Sunny’s mind (10)
Anxious: troubled by disturbing suspense (1)
Broke their fall: the Baudelaires’ plunge was stopped halfway between the sliding elevator doors and the metal cage where the Quagmires had been locked up (10)
Compatriots: friends (1)
Cooking had never been her forte: something she couldn’t do very well, except for making toast, and sometimes she couldn’t even do that without burning it to a crisp (8)
Cul-de-sac: At the end of the dark hallway, the Baudelaire children found an assortment of mysterious circumstances (11)
Disconcerting: a warning that the Baudelaire children did not heed in time (10)
Dogged Determination: everywhere they went, thinking up treacherous schemes and wearing disguises to try to fool the three children (1)
Dwarfed by comparison: one thing seems small when compared to another thing (3)
Ersatz: a situation in which one thing is pretending to be another OR the most terrifying place the Baudelaires had ever seen (7)
Fared no better: also became bored in her bedroom (3)
Greatest myths: big fat lies (9)
Haunted: people who have seen and heard such horrible things that they feel as if ghosts are living inside them, haunting their brains and hearts with misery and despair (8)
Hide or hair of them: even a glimpse of the city’s sixth most important financial advisor, or her husband (7)
Hubbub: a huge crowd of people in an enormous, fancy room (11)
Idiosyncrasies: unique habits (7)
Nefarious disguises: he did not fool them one bit no matter what he was wearing (4)
Nervous: worried about something (1)
Nodded resolutely: tried to make themselves stop feeling ungrateful and put on the suits (3)
Red herring: a distracting and misleading clue (12)
Roll of parchment: some very old paper printed with a map of the city at the time when the Baudelaire orphans lived in it (11)
Shorthanded: unprepared (10)
Somniferous: something that is so boring it puts you to sleep (5)
Stiffening of their resolve: realized that they had to search the penthouse for Gunther, even though it was a scary thing to do (6)
Taken aback: surprised that someone who was so selfish had purchased gifts for them (3)
Vapid: usually containing horses in a field or puppies in a basket (8)
We hit the jackpot: look at these fire tongs – they’re perfect! (8)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Agoula?: What for? (8)
Aguen?” Could you saw through the bars of the cage? (8)
Aha! (7)
Akrofil: And they’re not afraid of heights, that’s for sure. (2)
Armani: (something about Jerome’s neckties) (7)
Ayjim: I love my suit. Thank you very much. (3)
Bangemp: If it weren’t for the Quagmires, we would have been in his clutches a long time ago. (7)
Bikayado?” What new evil plan have you cooked up to steal our fortune? (4)
Bishuy: Or maybe he is in one of the other apartments, and we just didn’t hear him. (6)
Bite. (13)
Blized: It’s nothing. (6)
Chittol: That’s true. We should stop complaining and go change into our new outfits. (3)
Co: Or maybe Gunther managed to trick one of the other residents of 667 Dark Avenue into letting him into their apartments, and then he tied them up and is sitting there hiding in the kitchen. (6)
Crife!: (something about biting) (2)
Dielee?: What are we going to do? (10)
Ditemu: What other way is there? (10)
Dwestall: All the research in the world can’t help Duncan and Isadora now. (9)
Ecrif!: (Agreement about being scared.) (6)
Enipy: But I’m sure we can manage. (8)
Evomer: I can’t stand it any longer. Let’s tell everyone in the room what is really going on. (11)
Frejip?” How can you think of elevators at a time like this? (7)
Ganba: (Okay) (10)
Gavu?: The Quagmires have been found and rescued? (1)
Geronimo!: I don’t need to bite my way back down. (10)
Glaucus: But we can’t do that. (10)
Gonope?” (Where are Duncan and Isadora?) (13)
Grape!: (A grape is a fruit!) (6)
Gretel! (6)
Gyzan: (Pegs?) (10)
Hansel! (6)
Herdiset?: Crowbars? (11)
Kaxret: You got it, Esmé. (10)
Klofy: Of course. But how? (6)
Koundix: But he can’t be in the penthouse. Esmé saw him leave. (6)
Knilliu!: That’s very considerate of you. (6)
Lakry: There are no ropes. (7)
Lorigo!: What are we waiting for? Let’s go! (6)
Menrov?” Should we try to tell Jerome about Gunther and Esmé and the Quagmire triplets? (12)
Meotze: But the Squalor library has only those snooty books on what’s in and what’s out. (9)
Middiow?” (What’s an elevator shaft?) (7)
Mineak: Gunther would never take a shower. He’s filthy. (6)
Mmphmm!: (something about Count Olaf) (3)
Netesh: Of course I would! Mountain lions are wild animals. (5)
No. (7)
Nolano?: Do you think the Squalors are working together with Gunther? (6)
Noque, noque: There, there. (9)
Nnphnn!: (Something else about Count Olaf) (3)
Obog: (doubt) (1)
Oh. (3)
Onosew: Yes, ma’am. (8)
Peflob! (11)
Philavem: Let’s get started. (6)
Pince: Or outer space. (1)
Pomres: As it turned out, the stove ws the least of Aunt Josephine’s problems. (2)
Pratjic: Gunther must have ended up somewhere if he took this passageway. (11)
Prawottle: Older children aren’t supposed to be near a hot oven either, especially without adult supervision. (8)
Prollit: But not as terrifying as what Gunther will do to us, if we don’t find out his plan. (7)
Puictiw: (agreement) (3)
Pyetian: We’ll never make it there in time to expose Gunther and save the Quagmires. (11)
Reauhop!: And good luck! (9)
Resyca!: Or you could simply ask him to leave the penthouse, and never return! (4)
Selrep: That’s the one with the bright blue oven. (8)
Silko!: (agreement) (12)
Smashi?: (Smashing?) (3)
Snack! (6)
Soried: So far so good. (10)
Sorusu: Behind those wooden planks lies the answer to the mystery of V.F.D., and why the secret hallway led us to the place where the Baudelaire mansion burnt to the ground, killing our parents, and beginning the series of unfortunate events that haunt us wherever we go. (11)
Spenset: (We’re alive.) (10)
Stiblo!: We can imporove our vocabulary later – tell us what’s on your mind! (7)
Sunny!: (8)
Tada! (10)
Tageb: (Good morning.) (6)
Tenti: If we had some dynamite, we could blast our way out of the hallway, but we can’t use the tongs as dynamite. (11)
Tercul!: And we don’t want to forget about everything else, either – like the underground hallway that led to our ruined mansion, and the real meaning of V.F.D.! (13)
Tholc?: Like teeth? (10)
Thousand! (12)
Tisdu?: Where in the city can you find ashes outdoors? (11)
Toomsk: That must be where the Quagmires are hidden. (9)
Top! (10)
Topoing? (7)
Tretchev!: Welcome home! (7)
Up! (11)
Vasta: I’ll just have to risk it- it’s our only hope. (10)
Vinfrey: (We’d better spend the day figuring out what Gunther’s up to.) (6)
Vinung: Don’t say it. (9)
Waran!: (His improper English is just part of his disguise.) (4)
Wrech: Not to mention making those welding torches. (9)
Yaff: I think I’ve reached the halfway point. (10)
Yallrel: And let’s shut the sliding elevator doors, so the Squalors don’t see that we’ve been sneaking around an elevator shaft. (9)
Yelliverc!: That second elevator is almost completely useless! (7)
Yikes! (9)
Yoigt: But if I fall, I’ll just fall back into the net. (10)
Zelestin: It’ll be terrifying to climb down that horrible passageway again. (8)
Zisalem!: (something about Esmé being a terrible guardian) (10)
GEOGRAPHY:
Dark Avenue (1)
George Washington Boulevard (1) (mentioned)
Sixth Street (1) (mentioned)
Mulctuary Money Management (mentioned) (1)
orange juice factories (2)
Jerome’s favorite restaurant (2)
Verne Invention Museum (3)
Akhmatova Bookstore (3)
Pincus Hospital (3)
Veblen Hall (3)
Café Salmonella (3)
In Boutique (3)
Fish District (5)
Briny Beach (5)
Clothing District (6)
Beverage District (6)
Stationary District (7)
island somewhere (8)
remains of the Baudelaire mansion (11)
glue factory (12)
St. Carl’s Cathedral (13)
Vietnamese restaurant (13)
FOODOLOGY:
prune ice cream (1)
aqueous martini (2)
popcorn (3)
creamy salmon soup (5)
chilled salmon salad (5)
broiled salmon served with a salmon ravioli in salmon butter sauce (5)
salmon pie with a scoop of salmon ice cream (5)
poached eggs (6)
whole wheat toast (6)
parsley soda (6)
grapes (6)
a box of crackers (6)
jar of apple butter (6)
bottle of water (6)
chocolate sprinkles (7)
whole wheat flour (10)
salmon puffs (11)
ice cream sandwiches (13)
APARTMENTS:
7: two men laughed as someone told a joke (2)
12: splashing of water as someone took a bath (2)
17: somebody asked their mother where the bubble bath was (5)
19: woman saying, “Let them eat cake,” in a strange accent (2)
38: somebody was brushing their teeth (5)
___: someone with a deep, deep voice read a children’s story out loud. (5)
63: a man who lives with his mother and is taking a shower (6)
64: a very short man in a pinstripe suit and someone else named Avery (6)
65: a woman talking on the telephone (6)
Penthouse: seventy-one bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and rooms with no purpose at all
In things:
anything with chocolate sprinkles on it (7)
aqueous martinis (2)
automobile tires (7)
billboards with photographs of weasels on them (7)
bright blue cereal bowls (7)
Café Salmonella (4)
cotton balls (7)
Cross-country skiing (7)
dark (1)
garbage cans with letters of the alphabet stenciled all over them (7)
grapefruits (7)
magenta wallpaper (7)
movies with waterfalls in them (7)
ocean decorations (5)
orphans (2)
parsley soda (6)
pinstripe suits (2)
regular light (2)
silent hinges (7)
“toodle-oo” (10)
triangular picture frames (7)
vacuum cleaners (7)
very fancy doilies (7)
walking up ridiculously long staircases (1)
yellow paper clips (7)
LOTS:
#14 – an enormous globe
#25 – a rare and valuable piano
#46 – vase with blue flowers
#47 – a pair of ballet slippers made of chocolate
#48 – an enormous statue of a scarlet fish
#50 – V.F.D.
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:40:05 GMT -5
THE VILE VILLAGE
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire: Learns to walk at the end of the book.
Mr. Poe (1)
Duncan Quagmire
Isadora Quagmire
Count Omar (1)
Esmé Squalor/Officer Luciana
Mr. Fagin (1): a nineteenth cousin of the Baudelaires
Bus driver (2)
Council of Elders (2): there were twenty-five of them, and the youngest one looked to be about eighty-one years of age
a rude person in the back of the bus (2)
Mr. Lesko (2): man in plaid pants
Previous chief of Police (2): swallowed thumbtacks, likely due to Count Olaf
Hector (2)
Mrs. Morrow (2): Woman dressed in a bright pink bathrobe
several hundred townspeople (2)
The hook-handed man (m) (3)
The two powder-faced women (m) (3)
The bald man with the long nose (m) (3)
The one who looked like neither a man nor a woman (m) (3)
Ogden Nash (4)
Verhoogen Family (5)
Jacques Snicket (6)
Count Olaf/Detective Dupin (9)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
Fixing the self-sustaining hot air mobile home/Deus ex Machina
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
Mob psychology/solving Isadora’s poem
SUNNY’S BITING:
murdering Count Omar… wait, no…
Opening Fowl Fountain
V.F.D.:
Village of Fowl Devotees (3): has existed for more than three hundred years. In other words, it is older than the U.S.
THE LIBRARY:
Hector’s secret library
SNICKET SECRETS:
He used fresh black ink to write this story. (2)
He was in love with a wonderful woman and thought she would be his bride, but she read something in The Daily Punctilio and married someone else. (4)
It would be better to dig an escape tunnel than write to your congressman to rescue him. (4)
He wishes he could strike the morning Jacques died from the Snicket calendar (8)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The Littlest Elf (1)
The Daily Punctilio (1)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about what you don’t read being as important as what you do read (1)
the one about aphorisms not being helpful (1)
the one about traveling by bus (2)
the one about small potatoes (2)
the one about a bolt from the blue (4)
the one about not knowing who you can trust (4)
the one about barking up the wrong tree (4)
the one about jumping to conclusions (6)
the one about finding yourself in a quandary (7)
the one about entertaining a notion (10)
the one about a huge cloud of dust (11)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Klaus received a biography of Ogden Nash for his seventh birthday. (4)
Violet’s father taught her how to answer the telephone when he was unavailable. (5)
Violet once again remembers the promise she made to take care of her siblings. (7)
On Klaus’s twelfth birthday, his parents made bread pudding, but it was burned, sour, and soggy. They said next year he would have the best birthday meal in the world. (10)
Violet gave Klaus a book of Finnish poetry when he turned eight. (10)
Once the children’s parents had taken them to the circus, and they saw acrobats. (11)
Violet’s mother tried to braid her hair, but the braids came unraveled. (13)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Changed her tune: immediately said ‘Gounce!’ instead, which meant something along the lines of ‘Let’s live there!’” (1)
Concentrated its efforts on Violet: before long her hair was so wildly tangled that it looked like it had never seen a comb (2)
Depressed: a secret button, hidden in a crow statue, that is feeling just fine, thank you (11)
Did not rise to the occasion: continued to sit in his folding chair with his eyes cast downward (6)
Extremely prone to error: always had a cough, and had placed the three Baudelaire children in an assortment of dangerous positions (1)
Fire away: begin telling me about your plans (8)
Floated several theories: talked quietly about the two couplets by Isadora Quagmire (5)
Gargantuan: having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume (3)
Having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume: it was the biggest tree the Baudelaires had ever seen (3)
Here, here!: I don’t want Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire to live with me, either! (2)
Horizon: the boundary where the sky ends and the world begins (2)
Impenetrable: impossible to break into and rescue kidnapped triplets (11)
In their element: in the sort of home the three siblings would prefer (7)
Jumping to conclusions: you are believing something is true even though you don’t actually know whether it is or not (6)
Ordeal: a heap of trouble, most of which was Count Olaf’s fault (3)
Retrace their steps: turn around and run the other way when they saw townspeople approaching (12)
Room was in pandemonium: filled with Elders and townspeople standing around arguing (6)
Saw them off: put the Baudelaires on a bus, rather than doing the polite thing and taking them to their new home personally (2)
Second thought: considered, even for a second, what it would look like when thousands of crows would fly together to a new location (2)
Throw off all pretense: take off part of his disguise for a moment (9)
Took the plunge: knocked firmly on the door with her tiny knuckles (2)
We’re not out of the woods yet: there’s still plenty of trouble on the horizon (11)
Wild-goose chase: unlikely to reveal the Quagmire triplets’ location (4)
Without preamble: almost as soon as Hector sat down (4)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Albico!: And let’s solve the mystery of V.F.D. that the Quagmires told us about! (7)
Azzator!: Don’t worry – your secret is safe with us! (3)
Bark!: If you’re up there, Quagmires, just hang on, and we’ll get you first thing in the morning. (4)
Blake!: And the poem is written in Isadora’s distinct literary style (4)
Boiklio?: Do you think you could make some more welding torches, to melt the bars? You made some excellent ones when we lived with the Squalors. (10)
Brioche!: And bread! (10)
Burb: Anywhere, as long as it’s out of town. (13)
‘Bye. (10)
Calten!: I wouldn’t return there for all the tea in China! (1)
Chift. (10)
Contraire!: I can think of something else we can do – hold me up to the window latch! (4)
Cose: (That was close.) (12)
Couplet! (8)
Cra!: She probably means the beak of a V.F.D. crow. (5)
Dala?: Did you tell the Council of Elders that we were with you the night Jacques was murdered, so we couldn’t have committed the crime? (10)
Donax!: But that takes years and years, and if we don’t escape, we’ll be burned at the stake tomorrow afternoon. (10)
Dulch!: And we still haven’t figured out what they really mean. (5)
Esmé: (Something about Esmé not really being a kidnap victim) (1)
Fata?: (2)
Fountain! (11)
Frulk!: (something about being in a jail cell) (10)
Gaksoo!: There’s no point in arguing, because we’ll never know whether we’re right or wrong until we knock on the door. (2)
Gerhit!: (agreement) (4)
Glaji! (9)
Gounce!: Let’s live there! (1)
Grebe!: As usual! (7)
Grespo: Quite a bit of the mortar has actually begun to wear away. (10)
Hasserin: And without you, Klaus, we wouldn’t know how to save Jacques. (8)
Heni! (11)
Honz? (What’s a battering ram?) (11)
Hooray! (6)
Hurol! (11)
I! (11)
Jidu!: Surely Isadora has given us a hint about how to rescue her! (11)
Kay! (4)
Ko!: (8)
Krechin: And if I used my four big teeth to bite something as sloppily, I wouldn’t even leave one toothmark! (1)
Kyun: And that’s why we chose this town, in the hopes of finding the secret of V.F.D., rescuing the Quagmire triplets, and defeating Count Olaf once and for all. (3)
Laper: (agreement) (5)
Leucophrys!: I think I can explain that – the crows are delivering the couplets. (8)
Like me. (13)
Lililk!: Let’s go! Don’t look behind you! Let’s just try to get to Hector and his self-sustaining hot air mobile home before the mob cathes up with us and burns us at the stake! (12)
Loidya!: I’m absolutely sure that nobody approached the tree all night, and at dawn the note dropped down from the branches of the tree. (8)
Machina! (13)
Merganser! (7)
Minga!: (Three!) (11)
Mush!: The mortar is almost dissolved – just a little bit longer! (11)
N! (11)
Neebdes?: Could you explain that a bit more? (3)
Ning! (8)
No!: I’m not sure that’s the wisest plan – we won’t survive a fall from such a height! (13)
No lean! (2)
Novedri!: Living underground would be no fun at all! (2)
Ogufod!: What a lot of crows! (3)
Ollawmove!: Olaf could move them at any time! (4)
One (11)
Peng? (4)
Pereg: And if only the Quagmires were here, they could solve the other mystery – the meaning of the real V.F.D. (10)
Phelon!: And of proving that we’re not murderers! (13)
Pipit!: Wait! (6)
Plan! (7)
Plinn? (1)
Poe! (7)
Pojik?: Do you mean we’ve come here for nothing? (3)
Quandary?: What in the world can we do about it? (7)
Racah: It’s almost like walking through a quiet, but polite, crowd of very short people. (2)
Ready! (10)
Roger! (8)
Sabisho! (11)
Sanks!: That’s very considerate of you! (2)
Scylla!: It’s either the self-sustaining hot air mobile home, or being burned at the stake. (12)
Shize! (11)
Shoart!: A dead mean is not a thrill! (9)
Snoita!: I prefer to be tucked into bed by my siblings, not by strangers! (1)
Stop! (10)
Sturo?: (murder?) (3)
Tesper!: Let’s try to gather up as many pages of these notebooks as we can. (13)
Therill: It won’t be any more frightening than the time I climbed up an elevator shaft with my teeth. (7)
Took! (11)
Towhee?: Is there a rule that clearly states that people must listen to speeches? (8)
Two (11)
Vireo!: Let’s run – or, in my case, crawl – as fast as we can! (12)
Vue: Yes, I remember. (8)
Wazay?” (What is a mob?) (8)
Wibeon: It’s more confusing than superlative – we still don’t know where the Quagmires are. (11)
Wock!: The fountain looks as solid as can be. (11)
Wryb: That’s true. (4)
Yikes!: That doesn’t give us much time. (8)
Yoil! (13)
Zimuster: It would be silly to be afraid of a bunch of birds. (2)
Zounce!: That’s ridiculous!
GEOGRAPHY:
Mulctuary Money Management
Paltryville (m) (1)
Lucky Smells Lumbermill (m) (1)
China (m) (1)
Tedia (m) (1)
Lousy Lane (m) (1)
horseradish factory (m) (1)
Ophelia (m) (1): had a rivalry bank to Mulctuary Money Management
V.F.D. (2)
Town Hall (2)
Nevermore Tree (2)
Hector’s house (3)
Hector’s barn (3)
Pacific Ocean (3)
Prufrock Prep (m) (5)
Deluxe Cell (9)
Lake Lachrymose (m) (12)
Finite Forest (m) (12)
667 Dark Avenue (m) (12)
FOODOLOGY:
Chicken Enchiladas (3)
Hot tea (4)
Cabbage Sandwiches (5)
Hot fudge sundaes (5)
Huevos Rancheros (7)
Cranberry Juice (13)
Whole Wheat Flour (13)
RULES:
#1. No one may harm a crow. (13)
#2: Anyone who breaks a rule is burned at the stake. (6)
#19: The only pens that are acceptable within the city limits are ones made from the feathers of crows. (8)
#39: It is illegal to make anything out of crow feathers. (8)
#67: No citizen is allowed to build or use any mechanical device. (3)
#108: The V.F.D. library cannot contain any books that break any of the other rules. (3)
#141: All prisoners receive bread and water. (10)
#201: No murdering. (9)
#492: The Council of Elders will only discuss things that are on the platform. (2)
#920: No one may talk while on the platform unless you are a police officer. (2)
#961: The Council of Elders’ hot fudge sundaes cannot have more than fifteen pieces of nuts each. (5)
#1,742: No one is allowed to escapefrom jail. (12)
#2,493: Any person who is going to be burned at the stake has the opportunity to make a speech right before the fire is lit. (8)
#4,561: Citizens are not allowed to use their mouths for recreation. (3)
#19,833: No villains are allowed within the city limits. (2)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:41:38 GMT -5
THE HOSTILE HOSPITAL
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire/Dr. Tocuna
Sunny Baudelaire/ Nurse Flo
Count Olaf/Mattathias
Mr. Poe (mentioned) (1)
Milt (1)
Duncan Quagmire (mentioned) (1)
Isadora Quagmire (mentioned) (1)
Quagmire parents (mentioned) (1)
Quigley Quagmire (mentioned) (1)
Lou (2)
Volunteers Fighting Disease (2): a friendly looking man with a guitar, cheerful men, cheerful women, a handful of cheerful children, a cheerful driver
Beatrice (mentioned) (2)
Esmé Gigi Geniveve Squalor
William Congreve (2): playwright who wrote “Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.”
Jacques Snicket (mentioned) (2)
Snicket’s friend who plays the pipe organ (3)
Babs (3): head of human resources, never seen, was thrown off a building by Count Olaf.
Hal (4)
Thomas Alva Edison (7)
a man with both legs in casts (8)
a woman with both arms in badages (8)
Bernard Rieux (8): plague ward patient in room 105
Cynthia Vane (8): had a toothache
Jonah Mapple (8): Room 201, seasickness
Charley Anderson (8): Room 714, injured in an accident (there is also a children’s story about a cat named Charlie Anderson)
Clarissa Dalloway (8): Room 1308, suffering from depression?
Emma Bovery (8): Room 2611, food poisoning
Mikhail Bulgakov (8)
Haruki Murakami (8)
Mr. Sirin (10): lepidopterist
four officers in bright pink uniforms (10): chasing Mr. Sirin in story
Hospital Guard/person who looked like neither a man nor a woman (10)
Hook-handed man/Dr. O. Lucafont (10)
Bald man/Dr. Flacutono (10)
doctors, nurses, administrators
Colonel James Bowie (11)
Daily Punctilio reporter (11): Geraldine Julien?
the white-faced women/ real Dr. Tocuna & Nurse Flo (11)
Count Omar (11)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
Bungee cord (13)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
anagrams (9)
SUNNY’S BITING:
opening soup (9), biting Violet’s neck
THE LIBRARY:
Library of Records
SNICKET SECRETS:
He was locked in an Italian restaurant slowly filling up with water and has acquaintances in the locksmith, pasta, and sponge businesses. (1)
He was crouching behind the altar of the Catherdral of the Alleged Virgin while a friend of his played a sonata on a pipe organ while he was writing part of this book. (3)
His father used to sing a tune when he did the dishes (3)
He pled with his dentist to hollow out one of his teeth so he could smuggle a single page of his latest book past the guards at an airport. (4)
He researched Hal for nine months, six days, and fourteen hours to discover Hal was not a spy. (4)
He says the men and women of V.F.D. had their lives wrecked by a greedy man and a lazy newspaper. (5)
A prison warden is his friend and he had to get this chapter written quickly, or he would drown. (5)
He walks on the decks of ships, looks through a telescope at the aurora borealis, and hides his books on the top shelves at bookstores so no one will buy and read them. (6)
He stole the sugarbowl from Esmé Squalor. (6)
He cried himself to sleep years after the photograph of himself, Jacques, and the Baudelaire parents was taken. (6)
He had a friend, Mr. Sirin, who collected butterflies and was chased by the police. Mr. Sirin swallowed the butterflies and went to prison, and he couldn’t eat large chunks of broccoli, or he would crush the butterflies. (10)
He read a book on how to have a successful marriage, but the woman he loved perished on a terrible afternoon. (11)
He was once a content man with a comfortable home, successful career, person he loved very much, and a typewriter. Now he just has a tattoo on his left ankle. He is in a tiny room with a large pencil. (12)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The Daily Punctilio (1)
The Butcher Boy
Sleeping Beauty (10)
A Complete History of Surgical Tools (11)
What Happens to Wet Metal (11)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about STOP (1)
the one about “no news is good news” (2)
the one about hopping (2)
the one about how imagining something doesn’t make it so (3)
the one about standing outside the door of an office (4)
the one about snapping your fingers and grinning (4)
the one about subconscious word associations (5)
the one about things being easier said than done (5)
the one about supply closets being an uncomfortable place to hide (8)
the one about operating theatres (11)
the one about there being many things he doesn’t know (13)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Beatrice attended afternoon tea one Thursday and met Esmé Squalor for the first time. (2)
The Baudelaires’ father used to call Violet “Ed.” (7)
Their mother’s coat had a secret pocket in it in which she kept a small pocket dictionary. She promised to one day give the dictionary to Klaus. (7)
The parents used to sing a song to Sunny called “The Butcher Boy.” Their mother’s voice was breathing and high, and their father’s voice was low and deep as a foghorn. (7)
Sunny learned how to open cans by opening a can of condensed milk so her father could finish making frosting for her mother’s birthday cake. Sunny’s first word was “bite.” She opened all the cans from then on, except for beets. (9)
When she was five years old, Violet won an invention contest with an automatic rolling pin. (13)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
As comfortable as they could: not very comfortable at all (5)
Audacity: attempt to steal valuables from hospital employees, in addition to snatching the Baudelaire fortune (6)
Cruel twist of fate: nothing has happened the way I thought it would (12)
Dumbfoundedly: wondering why Klaus wanted to eat alphabet soup at a time like this (9)
Emphatically: as if she thought being extra careful was a very good plan (8)
Futile: useless, unnecessary, and ineffectual, because there is no reason for it (7)
Increase exponentially: get much, much worse (10)
Infiltrated: sneaked into the middle of a singing crowd (8)
Intercom: someone talking into a microphone someplace and having their voice come out of speakers someplace else (3)
Lepidopterist: a man who was being pursued by angry government officials (10)
Made short work: ate every warm, sweet crumb (2)
Reproving: shouting ‘Be silent!’ (4)
Severe lack of moral stamina: cruel selfishness combined with love of violence (12)
shoes with Stiletto heels: a pair of shoes made with a small, slender knife where each heel should be (7)
Slave to fashion: dressed in incredibly expensive, and often absurd, outfits (7)
Spurious: nothing at all like a real doctor (9)
Stepped to it: took their positions around the telegram device (1)
Ward: particular section of the hospital (8)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Afficu: And the only way we’ll get into the Library of Records is if we talk to Babs, so it’s a risk we have to take. (4)
Agery: Well, we can’t keep on walking forever. (1)
Alias: Maybe she’s under a different name. (8)
All done. (9)
Aronec: And we’re not getting any closer to learning anything about V.F.D., or Jacques Snicket. (3)
Arrete?: (Stop?) (1)
Asklu: We never would have found her if you hadn’t figured out that Olaf was using anagrams. (9)
Baudelaire! (6)
Blusin: We don’t have much choice. (2)
Bounce? (13)
But how? (9)
Ceyune: We’ve been wandering around the hospital all morning, and we’re no closer to rescuing our sister. (8)
Check! (9)
Chonex: Then we’re all alone. (1)
Clap! (11)
Climb? (13)
Culch!: Getting in the trunk is the same thing as getting captured! (13)
Curoy: Besides, the Quagmire triplets are far, far away, and we only have a few pages of their notebooks. We need to find the real meaning of V.F.D. (4)
Damajat: Let’s hide in that supply closet over there. (8)
Danger (8)
Danya: Or the bedroom at Count Olaf’s house. (4)
Deashew!: And it takes me several hours to open one cabinet with my teeth! (5)
Decap?: Do you thinkg hey’re going to cut off Violet’s head? (8)
Different. (13)
Disguise? (8)
Dleen!: We can’t continue down the staircase – look! (12)
Door! (12)
Douth?: But how are we going to find the Surgical Ward when the maps of the hospital are so confusing? (9)
Echinacea!: Or well-tested herbal remedies. (3)
Egress: Klaus is right – the exit is the other way. (7)
Ezan: Or find out if one of our parents really survived the fire. (13)
Gidoost: But piles of construction materials don’t wander around hospitals. (8)
Glaynop? (12)
Golos: Itll have to do, until something better comes along. (13)
Gwit: They don’t recognize us either. (10)
Gwito: But Mattathias closed the Surgical Ward. (9)
Gykree!: He’s had all night to contact us, and we haven’t heard from him. (2)
Half: (We could sleep in the unfinished half of the hospital.) (4)
Help!: (I’ll help!) (1); (13)
Hend: Actually, I worked as an administrative assistant at Prufrock Preparatory School. (4)
Ilimi: (I’m scared.) (1)
Impro: We’ll think of something. (2)
Jacques! (1)
Janitor. (6)
Kesalf: That’s Olaf’s associate. It sounds like it’s entering the Ward for People with Nasty Rashes. We’d better hurry. (13)
Knife? (11)
Lindersto: That’ll be tough. We’ll have to wander around the hospital looking for her, while other people will be wandering around the hospital, looking for us. (8)
Me!: I’d be perfect for that job, because I have very sharp teeth. (4)
Mulick!: Let’s discuss that at a later time! (2)
Mushulm: I agree, although it won’t be pleasant to see all these sick people. (8)
Nersai: Jackline to Jacutinga (6)
Night! (5)
Nil. (5)
No! (7)
No up. (12)
No walk! (3)
Nroiz! (12)
O! (9)
Olaf: Before Mattathias gets his hands on us. (6)
Orlando!: Or the one who looks like neither a man nor a woman. (5)
Paperwork! (11)
Patsy: We’re very concerned about Laura V. Bleediotie. (10)
Peipix: Me neither. (9)
Pesh: At least, until somebody needs rubber bands, alphabet soup, white medical coats, or clean hands. (8)
Phromein: I think I understand, but it’s difficult for someone as young as myself. (9)
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity: I must admit I don’t have the faintest idea of what is going on. (5)
Poe (1)
Prapil: (doubt) (7)
Prem!: But we looked under Snicket, Jacques, and Fire already. (6)
Quagmire: When the Quagmires used disguises, they didn’t fool Olaf. (9)
Rabave. (5)
Rallam: And Olaf’s associates are chasing us. (13)
Rance: (And the file.) (8)
Rats! (3)
Read it! (6)
Ready. (8)
Recazier?: Klaus, why in the world do you want to eat alphabet soup at a time like this? (9)
Right. (8)
Run! (7)
Seerg: And I was afraid to ask him any more about it. (5)
Sheer terror. (13)
Shh: Be quiet! I think I hear someone walking into the anteroom of the Library of Records. (6) (also sometimes – I think the H aisle might be a good place to look for the file.)
Silata: But there are so many people here. (9)
Sorry. (12)
Sos: It’s an emergency situation. (1)
Stairs! (12)
Stall: We’ll try to postpone the operation as long as we can, Klaus. (11)
Teeth. (11)
Tiofreck!: Violet’s in grave danger – we have to find her immediately. (8)
Tell! (5)
Together. (13)
Torch? (10)
Trapped. (10)
Treen: Yes – I opened one earlier, to help decode the anagrams. (13)
Trosslik: You mean if Mr. Poe gets us out of this mess. (1)
True. (9)
Tweem!: (We’re not murderers!) (11)
Twisp: But not until we get ahold of the file, solve all these mysteries, and prove our innocence. (6)
Uckner: (Meanwhile we discovered where the Quagmire triplets were being hidden, and helped them escape STOP. The Quagmires managed to give us a few scraps of their notebooks so we could try to learn the real meaning of V.F.D. STOP.) (1)
Us: And we need to know why there’s a picture of us in the file. (5); (Except us.) (9)
Us, too! (11)
V? (9)
Vapey: Then let’s hurry. (6)
Velocity!: (We have to hurry!) (9)
Violet! (7)
Virm: But we don’t know where she is. (8)
Where? (12)
Wolick: We’re very happy to be of assistance. (4)
Yep. (4)
Yes! (10)
Yuck: Don’t remind me. (9)
GEOGRAPHY:
Last Chance General Store (1)
Mulctuary Money Management (mentioned) (1)
Cathedral of the Alleged Virgin (3)
Heimlich Hospital (3): if you want to see the remains of the place, you have to borrow a donkey, and the whole place is covered in kudzu
Damocles Dock (mentioned) (4)
Quivery Stomach Festival (6)
Texas (11)
Café Salmonella (mentioned) (12)
FOODOLOGY:
Limes (1)
Fresh cranberry muffins (2)
Fruit (4)
plum (5)
persimmon (5)
alphabet soup (9)
pizza (12)
Chinese food (12)
LIBRARY OF RECORDS FILES:
Babbit to Babylon (6)
Bacteria to Ballet (6)
Bamboo to Baskerville (6)
Bat Mitzvah to Bavarian Cream (6)
Byron to Byzantine (7)
Conch to Condy’s Fluid (7)
Confetti to Consecration (7) (congruent triangles, coniferous trees, conjugated verbs)
Fabian to Fact (6)
Fainting to Fangs (6)
famous Finnish fishermen (5)
Fatalism to Faulkner (6)
Fear to Fermat (6)
Ficus to Filth (6)
Fin de Siècle to Fissle (6) (Finland, firmament)
Jabberwocky to Jackal (6)
Jacket to Jack-o’-Lantern (6)
Jackline to Jacutinga (6) (jack-o’lantern (is that a mistake?), Jack Russell terrier, Jacobean drama)
Linguistic to Lions (7)
mollusks (5)
picture frames to pyramids (4)
poetry to pills (4)
protection of thumb (5)
pudding to psychology (4)
sauce to saxifrage (6) (sawmill, sauna)
scarab to scavenger (6)
secretary to sediment (6)
sequel to serenity (6)
sewing machines (5)
shed to sheepshank (6)
shellac to sherbert (6)
shipwreck to shrimp (6)
sicily to sideways (6)
skylight to slob (6)
sludge to smoke (6)
snack to snifter (6) (Snell’s Law, sneaker, snicking)
snowball to sober (6)
sonnet to spackle (6)
ANAGRAMS:
Lisa N. Lootnday – Alison Donalty
Albert E Deviloeia
Linda Rhaldeen – Daniel Handler
Ada O. Ubervillet
Ed Valiantbrue
Laura V. Bleediotie – Violet Baudelaire
Monty Kensicle – Lemony Snicket
Ned H. Rirger – Red Herring
Eriq Bluthetts – Brett Helquist
Ruth Dercroump – Rupert Murdoch
Al Brisnow – Lisa Brown
Carrie E. Abelabudite – Beatrice Baudelaire
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:42:07 GMT -5
THE CARNIVOROUS CARNIVAL
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire/Beverly (1)
Klaus Baudelaire/Elliot (1)
Sunny Baudelaire/Chabo the Wolf Baby (1): the size of a watermelon (12)
Count Olaf (1): wears cologne (7)
Esmé Squalor (1)
Bald man (1)
Two women with white powder all over their faces (1)
Hook-handed man (1)
Madame Lulu/Olivia (1)
Mr. Poe (m) (1)
Operator (1)
One of Snicket’s enemies (2): possibly a vegetarian
John Merrick (2): man with birth defects
Hugo (3)
Colette (3)
Kevin (3)
seven or eight people at the carnival (4): man with pimples on his face (5), woman standing nearby (5)
Owner of a tea shop (5)
Other customers at said tea shop (5)
Duchess (6)
R or K (6): took photograph of Baudelaires on Damocles Dock
friend of Olivia’s (7): trained lions to smell smoke
greedy night watchman (9)
dessert chef (9)
local shoemaker (9)
blacksmith (9)
chimney sweep (9)
computer technician (9)
woman at the ticket booth (9)
pimpled man’s mother (9)
Daily Punctilio reporter (10): Geraldine Julien?
husband and wife with dyed hair (10)
William Shakespeare (11)
woman who runs the gift caravan (12)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
rebuilding an engine (9)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
finding the headquarters on the map (9)
SUNNY’S BITING/COOKING:
biting ivy off roller coaster carts (9)/adding cinnamon to hot chocolate (4)
THE LIBRARY:
Madame Lulu’s archival library (6)
V.F.D.:
veiled facial disguises (7)
various finery disguises (7)
voice fakery disguise (7)
Valley of Four Drafts (12)
SNICKET SECRETS:
After he has finished his work for the day, he saws holes in his rented canoe and converses with his few surviving friends. (1)
His sister may have been running away with an archuduke – does this make Dewey an archduke? (2)
He looked in the refrigerator of one of his enemies and learned she was possibly a vegetarian. (2)
In a job interview, he once had to hit an olive with a bow and arrow, memorize three pages of poetry, and figure out whether cheese fondue was poisoned or not without tasting it. (3)
He goes out walking at Briny Beach in the morning sometimes. He also goes into a tea shop and sobs loudly. (5)
He stayed in the guest caravan with Jacques many years ago. (5)
He tries to contact his sister, telling her he is heading north and trying to find her. (6)
He works frantically in the homes of other people without their knowledge. (6)
Just last night, he was trouble by a decision involving an eyedropper, a greedy night watchman, and a tray of individual custards, so he can barely type these worfs. The dessert chef found his room before dawn. (9)
Snicket went to the train station the Baudelaires remembered, and he talked to the shoemaker’s son (9)
He saw something on a price tag in a department store which told him he should leave at once, but in different clothing. (9)
He sat in an airport and heard something telling him to leave later that day on a different flight. (9)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The Daily Punctilio (1)
The Snicket File (1)
The Marvelous Marriage (2)
The Story of Queen Debbie and her Boyfriend, Tony (4)
King Lear (11)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about “in the belly of the beast” (1)
the one about learning more about people when you look through their belongings (2)
the one about job interviews being unpleasant (3)
the one about miracles (3)
the one about déjà vu (5)
the one about grief being a sneaky thing (5)
the one about there being many difficult things in the world to hide, and a secret not being one of them (6)
the one about how what you want or don’t want has little to do with what does or does not happen (6)
the one about people not understanding the difference between words and shapes (8)
the one about Shakespeare’s plays (11)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
The Baudelaire parents had promised their children they would one day bring them to see the famous hinterlands sunsets. Klaus read about sunsets, and Violet began building a solar oven.(1)
Klaus read a book about John Merrick, a man with birth defects. (2)
Their mother taught Violet how to draw fake scars on people. (2)
They would wear costumes for their own amusement. (2)
Violet yet again remembers the promise she made to always look after her siblings. (2)
They watched a scary movie when their parents were out for the evening. (6)
Their mother had a toolkit with a wrench Violet always admired (9)
Before Sunny was born, the Baudelaire family went to a vineyard. They had to take a train at a station not far from Paltryville, and Violet and Klaus had gotten lost. Their father said if the children ever lost their parents, they should stay put. (9)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Bemoaning their fate: playing dominoes, rather than trying to think of a way out of their predicament (5)
Began to get their bearings: figure out how two people, using only two hands, can eat one ear of corn at the same time (3)
Cower: cringe and duck and hope not to get whipped (11)
Digesting information: thinking about everything that Madame Lulu has told them (8)
Dilemma: problem (3)
Disperse: walk off to purchase souvenirs or leave the carnival (5)
Dressed for the occasion: put on a specific outfit in an attempt to impress them (8)
Eavesdropping: listening in on interesting conversations you are not invited to join (1)
Enormous roller coaster: a series of small carts where people can sit and race up and down steep and frightening hills of tracks, for no discernible reason (1)
Fictional: somebody made it up one day (4)
Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep: How sad it is that people end up hurting one another as if they were ferocious sea monsters (11)
In the belly of the beast: inside some terrible place with little chance of escaping safely (1)
In the clear: far enough away from the roller coaster that they could no longer see or hear what was going on (11)
Opportunity will knock: his coworkers might find something better to do with their time, instead of leaping into a pit of hungry lions just to give some people what they wanted (8)
Performed their toilette: did the things necessary to being their day as carnival freaks (4)
Shook their heads vigorously: in order to shake talcum powder out of their hair (7)
Shtick: increase suspense by slowly unfolding a piece of paper printed with the name of someone who was supposed to jump into a pit of lions (10)
Sleep on it: to go to bed thinking about something and reach a conclusion in the morning (9)
Stood resolute: did not become frightened at all (7)
Summarize: tell their story in a way that would convince the operator to let them talk to Mr. Poe (1)
Swamped at work: chasing after innocent children for quite some time (2)
Testily: in her regular voice, forgetting her disguise because she was becoming very frustrated and upset (5)
Vineyard: a sort of farm where people grow grapes used in wine (9)
Understocked: empty except for three books (6)
Until the cows came home: until there was no more wine (2)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Accentuate the positive aspects of working with Count Olaf: make the opportunity sound better than it really was, by emphasizing the good parts and scarcely mentioning the bad (8)
Aklec: Let’s move out. (9)
And bald. (12)
Back. (6)
Beriu?: What about me? (2)
Both! (10)
Chabo!: I know this is humiliating, but at least our disguises are working! (3)
Cheat! (6)
Chelish: I’m too big to fit inside a shoe. (2)
Chesro?: But if she’s a fake, how did she know that one of our parents was alive? (6)
Chitvee: But I can’t help thinking about our parents. (5)
Chow!: Before we’re thrown to the lions! (5)
Déjà vu. (5); We must be able to think of something that can help us. We’ve escaped from bloodthirsty crowds before. (10)
Dubious: (I’m not sure that’s a good reason.) (7)
Dragnet!: But the police think we’re murderers! (1)
Easy. (9)
Edasurc: Maybe someday we can rescue these lions. (9) (Crusade spelled backward)
Eerie. (6)
Ephrai: But we’re in real trouble now. (1)
Esoobac: I don’t remember. (9) (Caboose spelled backward)
Eye! (1)
Flynn: And I never thought I would become a violent person, but I engaged in a sword fight with Dr. Orwell. (7)
Fan belt? (10)
Fraud! (7)
Gabrowha? (2)
Galfuskin: This is all guesswork – let’s go to the fortune-telling tent and see if we can find out anything for sure, and we’d better do it soon before the others get back. (5)
Ghede!: I almost forgot about the archival library! (12)
Ginawn!: All these clothes are too big for me. (2)
Grr: (2)
Harum? (7)
Heebie-jeebies: Let’s get out of here. I’m really getting the creeps. (6)
Ificat: Me too. (5)
Ingredi: Meanwhile, I’ll look through all this food and make sure we have everything we need to prepare meals. (12)
Ivy? (9)
Karneez? (2)
Key? (12)
Kiwoon!: I thought I was going to cry when all those people were calling me ‘freak.’” (4)
Legror?: But what about the lightning? (6)
Lesoint: I’m nearly done. (9)
Merrill: We’d better get out of this trunk. (1)
Mishap (6)
Nuts! (2)
Olaf? (9)
Proffco: I guess so. (7)
Promise? (7)
Radev: Somebody’s going to put a stop to us if we don’t disguise ourselves soon. (2)
Renuf!: I don’t see anything freakish about you either, but even if I did I wouldn’t laugh at you because it wouldn’t be polite. (3)
Right (12)
Sandover: So we’re staying. (2)
Semja! (1)
Switch! (6)
Tent (4)
There! (6)
Tom ka gai! (8)
Trenceth!: You ought to be ashamed of yourself! (11)
Twicho! (2)
Us! (6)
V.F.D.! (12)
Veriz: We’ll need money to make a phone call. (1)
Volu… (5)
What? (7)
Whaque: Or pretending to be surgeons (9)
Whazit? (2)
Winnow?: But where else could the headquarters be? There’s no other marking on the map. (12)
Worf: I don’t think we should stay put. I think we should leave right now. (9)
Wow! (3)
Yerz (6)
Yes. (12)
Yirat: I remember – the famous hinterlands sunset (6)
GEOGRAPHY:
Hinterlands (1)
Rarely Ridden Road (1)
Caligari Carnival (1)
Mulctuary Money Management (m) (1)
Mortmain Mountains (7)
Plath Pass (12)
Richter Range (12)
Silent Springs (12)
Paucity Peak (12)
Valley of Four Drafts (12)
Stricken Stream (12)
FOODOLOGY:
Grilled cheese sandwiches (m) (1)
Wine (2)
Buttermilk (2)
Roast chicken (2)
Corn (3)
Raw carrots (m) (3)
Tagliatelle grande (4)
Hot chocolate w/ cinnamon (4)
Tom ka gai (7)
custards (9)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:42:41 GMT -5
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
CHARACTERS:
dead poet (1) Robert Frost?
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (3)
Count Olaf (3)
Esmé Squalor (3)
Hook-handed man (3)
Two women with white powder all over their faces (3)
Kevin (3)
Colette (3)
Hugo (3)
Sumac (1) a singer Violet admires
Quagmires (m) (1)
Jacques Snicket (m) (2)
Carmelita Spats (2)
Madame Lulu (m) (2)
Mr. Poe (m) (2)
Dr. Orwell (m) (3)
Uncle Bruce (4)
Snow Scouts (4)
Dr. Montgomery (m) (5)
comrade who took the pole out of the Vertical Flame Diversion to build a submarine (5) Widdershins?
his dear sister (5)
Beatrice (5)
the man with the beard but no hair (6)
the woman with the hair but no beard (6)
infant servant (m) (6)
Sir Isaac Newton (m) (7)
Bonnie and Clyde (m) (7)
Quigley Quagmire (7)
C.M. Kornbluth (9: mechanical instructor at V.F.D. headquarters
Isadora’s poetry teacher (m) (11)
Quigley’s cartography teacher? (m) (11)
Dr. Isaac Anwhistle (12): “Ike”
the person who through the sugar bowl out the window (12)
bone expert (13)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (13)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
Drag chute (1), fork-assisted climbing shoes (9)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
Verbal Fridge Dialogue (9)
SUNNY’S BITING/COOKING:
Preparing meals for the theater troupe (6)
V.F.D.:
Valley of Four Drafts (1)
Verbal Fridge Dialogue (2)
Volunteer Feline Detectives (4)
Very Fascinating Drama (4)
Very Fun Day (4)
Vinegar-Flavored Doughnuts (4)
Violent Frozen Dragonflies (4)
Voracious Fierce Dragon (4)
Vain Fat Dictator (4)
Vertical Flame Diversion (5)
Verdant Flammable Devices (7)
Vernacularly Fastened Door (7)
Very Fresh Dill (9)
THE LIBRARY:
V.F.D. library
SNICKET SECRETS:
He has never been able to find the remains of the caravan, even after months of searching with a lantern and a rhyming dictionary. (1)
He prefers to stay in hotels or rented castles. (3)
He wrote a mysterious letter to his sister. (5)
He went to Thailand to interview a taxi driver. (6)
He participates in discussions on how the world has become a corrupt and dangerous place and whether or not there are enough people with the integrity and decency necessary to keep the entire planet from descending into despair. (7)
The few times he has led a life of impulsive passion have led to all sorts of trouble, from false accusations of arson to a broken cuff link he can never have repaired. (7)
He once told the woman he loved trouble would end soon and they would get married. (8)
He used to watch volunteer eagles from the window of the V.F.D. headquarters. (8)
He left a pickle in a refrigerator (maybe the V.F.D. headquarters?) and now it will never go into a coded sandwich. (12)
He kept bringing bones to a bone expert until she told him he was making her so miserable he was never allowed to return. (13)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
“The Road Less Traveled” (1)
a book about snow gnats Klaus read (2)
Cinderella (3)
The Daily Punctilio (4)
Remarkable Phenomena of the Mortmain Mountains (5)
Corridors of Power (7)
Anna Karenina (7)
The Garden of Proserpine (11)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (12)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about having a room with a view (1)
the one about dragging a sheriff behind you (1)
the one about fate (1)
the one about wishing (2)
the one about taking one’s chances (2)
the one about taking a page from someone else’s book (4)
the one about having an aura of menace (6)
the one about being trampled by an ox (8)
the one about a refrigerator holding all sorts of important things and a maniac poking you with a stick if you don’t give him a basket of strawberries (9)
the one about liking to take a break from your family and friends unless you are a hermit or half a pair of Siamese twins (10)
the one about “set” having the most definitions in the dictionary (10)
the one about the light bulb over someone’s head (11)
the one about someone lurking just outside the light of your flashlight (11)
the one about taking someone prisoner being a villainous thing to do (11)
the one about deciding the right thing to do or what to wear to a party (11)
the one about Stockholm syndrome (12)
the one about the itsy bitsy spider (12)
the one about having a pledge (13)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Once Sunny’s mother told her about how presentation is as important as the food itself. (6)
Their father kept verdant flammable devices in his desk drawer. (7)
Mrs. Baudelaire read Anna Karenina to Klaus when he was young. (7)
Violet spent one summer studying the laws of thermodynamics and building a miniature helicopter out of an eggbeater and some old copper wiring. (7)
Their father used to say a good meal can cheer one up considerably. (10)
The parents sang a song to Violet with the words “The World is Quiet Here” when she was very young. (12)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
A dark day: a sad time in the history of the Baudelaire children, V.F.D., and all kind, brave, and well-read people in the world (4)
Appropriate accoutrements: bagels, cream cheese, sliced cucumber, black pepper, and capers, which can be eaten along with the lox for an enjoyable meal (9)
Brace yourself: get ready for something that will probably be difficult (10)
Carry the day: enable Violet Baudelaire and Quigley Quagmire to climb up a frozen waterfall after bracing themselves for the difficult journey (10)
Centerpiece: a decoration placed in the middle of a table, often used to distract people from the food (6)
Complied: followed Violet’s suggestion and read a very complicated paragraph out loud, explaining it as he went along (11)
Corridors of power: the hushed and often secret places where important matters are discussed (7)
Defected: joined Count Olaf’s band of revolting comrades (1)
Dressed for the occasion: wearing such strange clothing that the youngest Baudelaire was too surprised to say the final ‘ga’ she had been planning (12)
Endure: meet in secret, communicate in code, and gather crucial evidence to foil the schemes of their enemies (13)
Exonerate me: prove to the authorities that it is Count Olaf, and not me, who has started so many fires (5)
Extreme state of disrepair: an underside of an automobile in such bad shape that it was dripping oil on her and her companion (10)
Facinorous: wicked (1)
Gingerly: without falling into a very deep hole (12)
Inadvertently: where the youngest Baudelaire could hear it (12)
Inferno: enormous fire that destroyed a secret headquarters high in the mountains (7)
Inseparable: close friends (2)
Hazard a guess: continue to expend their energy by discussing the matter (12)
Hazard their climb: continue their difficult journey in silence, until they arrived at last at the source of the Stricken Stream (12)
Lightened her spirits: an identical plume of green smoke, coming from the very bottom of the slope (9)
Nonchalantly: in a tone of voice that indicated he didn’t care one bit about his deceased employees (3)
Performing herculean tasks: managing to do incredibly difficult things (3)
Privacy: time by oneself, without anyone watching or interfering (10)
Proximity: while the police gathered outside and eventually managed to arrest the robbers and take them to jail. (12)
Pyromania: a love of fire, usually the product of a deranged mind (6)
Realm of possibility: could not be made from a few small objects and some articles of clothing previously belonging to carnival employees (2)
Rolled up her sleeves: focused very hard on the task at hand, but did not actually roll up her sleeves, because it was very cold on the highest peak of the Mortmain Mountains (6)
Speak their minds: confront Count Olaf and his companions as if they weren’t one bit frightened (12)
Speaking in perfect unison: reciting a list of very odd words at the very same time (4)
Take a page from someone’s book: adopt an idea used by somebody else (4)
Tiara: small crown given to a nasty little girl for no good reason (13)
Toboggan: a sled big enough to hold several people (6)
Tribulations: opportunities to eavesdrop while cooking for a theater troupe (5)
Tributaries: divisions of a river or stream, each twisting off in a different direction past the ruins of the headquarters (7)
With a spring in her step: in a surprisingly cheerful manner considering she was in the clutches of a ruthless villain on top of a mountain so cold that even the nearby waterfall was frozen solid (6)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Almost (almost done making breakfast) (6)
Arigato: I appreciate your help, Quigley. (10)
Aubergine: I’ve concocted a plan involving this eggplant, and it doesn’t matter if I tell you about it because you never understand a single word I say. (12)
Babganoush!: I concocted an escape plan with the eggplant that turned out to be even handier than I thought. (13)
Bicuspid?: Should I drag my teeth against the ice, too? (13)
Bruce! (13)
Brummel: In my opinion, you desperately need a bath, and your clothing is a shambles. (6)
Busheney: You’re an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people. (6)
Caffefredde, sorbet, toast tartar: (Iced coffee, frozen orange juice, raw toast) (6)
Carmelita!: You’re making a monstrous decision! (13)
Cinderella: I’ve had to do all of the chores, while being humiliated at every turn. (10)
Coastkleer: It’s safe to come out now. (10)
Drat!: That is exactly what I was planning on doing. (12)
Eureka!: I’ve just realized something (3)
False Spring Rolls!: An assortment of vegetables wrapped in spinach leaves, prepared in honor of False Spring. (10)
Futil: That is an absolutely impossible chore. (9)
Ga ga goo goo: I won’t be caught, because they think I’m only a helpless baby. (10)
Godot: We don’t know where to go, and we don’t know how to get there. (13)
Goo goo: I’m going to pretend I’m a helpless baby, instead of answering your question. (9)
Happy (10)
Hide (10)
Hotel Denouement? V.F.D.?
Hygiene: Additionally, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for wearing the same outfit for weeks at a time without washing. (6)
I’m not a baby. (10)
Intrepid: Quigley Quagmire was brave and resourceful enough to survive the fire that destroyed his home, and I’m sure he’ll survive this, too. (13)
Jacques. (13)
Klaus? (10)
Lox! (6)
Matahari: If I stay, I can spy on them and find out. (10)
No!: I certainly hope that isn’t true, because my siblings and I hoped to reach V.F.D. headquarters, solve the mysteries that surround us, and perhaps find one of our parents. (6)
No pinch (3)
Nogo: I don’t think I ought to accompany you. (10)
Nonat: I didn’t notice any such insects outside (3)
Olafile: (Count Olaf has the Snicket file.) (10)
Overhear! Hotel Denouement! (13)
Plakna?: How am I supposed to cook breakfast on the top of a freezing mountain? (6)
Rosebud!: In some situations, the location of a certain object can be much more important than being outnumbered. (13)
Sakesushi: I don’t think you’ll enjoy salmon if it’s not cooked. (6)
Separate Klaus: (You left Klaus at the bottom of the waterfall) (10)
Set!: I knew you would find me! (10)
Sibling (9)
Sneakitawc: Of course, because you don’t understand me, I can say anything I want to you, and you’ll have no idea what I’m talking about. (6)
Sssh! (10)
Suppertunity: Serving the troupe dinner will be a perfect chance to listen to their conversation. (10)
Surchmi: I don’t have it – my siblings do. (6)
Unasanc: (The villains have mentioned one more safe place for volunteers to gather) (10)
Unfeasi!: TO make a hot meal without any electricity, I’d need a fire, and expecting a baby to start a fire all by herself on top of a snowy mountain is cruelly impossible and impossibly cruel. (6)
Translo: Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean that it’s nonsense. (6)
Uh-oh!: That’s doesn’t sound like good news. (13)
Unno narsonist: I don’t know, but they burned down V.F.D. headquarters. (10)
Vaccurum (10)
Wrong def: An Individual practitioner means someone who works alone, instead of with a group, and it has nothing to do with a life of crime. (3)
Yep. (10)
Yessir! (12)
GEOGRAPHY:
Mortmain Mountains (1)
Stricken Stream (1)
Caligari Carnival (m) (1)
Lake Lachrymose (m) (1)
Valley of Four Drafts (1)
Prufrock Preparatory School (m) (1)
Village of Fowl Devotees (m) (2)
Mount Fraught (3)
Lucky Smells Lumbermill (m) (3)
667 Dark Avenue (m) (3)
mustard factory (4)
Hotel Denouement (m) (5)
Heimlich Hospital (m) (6)
Finite Forest (m) (8)
Uncle Monty’s house (8)
Hotel Denouement (m) (12)
FOODOLOGY:
blackstrap molasses (1)
wild clover honey (1)
aged balsamic vinegar (1)
apple butter (1)
strawberry jam (1)
caramel sauce (1)
maple syrup (1)
butterscotch topping (1)
maraschino liqueur (1)
virgin and extra-virgin olive oil (1)
lemon curd (1)
dried apricots (1)
mango chutney (1)
crema di noci (1)
tamarind paste (1)
hot mustard (1)
marshmallows (1)
creamed corn (1)
peanut butter (1)
grape preserves (1)
salt water taffy (1)
condensed milk (1)
pumpkin pie filling (1)
potato chips (3)
sliced mango, black beans, chopped celery or hearts of palm, black pepper, lime juice, and olive oil (5)
coffee beans (6)
spinach (6)
mushrooms (6)
orange juice (6)
cheese (6)
water chestnuts (6)
eggplant (6)
boysenberry jam (6)
loaf of bread (6)
Stricken Salmon (6)
wine (6)
salted almonds (8)
pistachio nuts (9)
carrots (10)
apricot, strawberry, and boysenberry jam (11)
dill (11)
olives (11)
mustard (11)
pickle (11)
lemon juice (11)
false spring rolls (12)
almond cookies (12): made from Snicket’s grandmother’s recipe; he also eats 11 almond cookies in the first ATWQ book
butterscotch sundaes (12)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:43:10 GMT -5
THE GRIM GROTTO
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire (1): turned fifteen
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1)
Quigley Quagmire (m) (1)
Captain Widdershins (2): showed an article from the Daily Punctilio to many people, including Beatrice, insisting it was true (13)
Josephine (m) (2)
Fiona (2)
Herman Melville (m) (2)
Phil (2)
Fiona’s mother (m) (2): supposedly died in a manatee accident – did not die in a manatee accident (13)
Jacques (2)
Jacques’ brother (2)
a dreadful woman who turned out to be a spy (2)
Madame Lulu (m) (3)
Gregor Anwhistle (4)
Madame diLustro (5): “I believe I’ve discovered your true identity.”
the woman Captain Widdershins went to school with who was like a Gorgon (5)
P.G. Wodehouse (m) (5)
Carl Van Vechten (m) (5)
Comyns (m) (5)
Cleary (m) (5)
Archy (m) (5)
Mehitabel (m) (5)
woman making her way to the Queequeg (6)
Edgar Guest (m) (7)
Duchess R (m) (7)
Kit Snicket (7)
the man with the beard but no hair (m) (9)
the woman with the hair but no beard (m) (9): Olaf mentions they are at the Hotel D
Hook-handed man/Fernald (9)
Snow scouts/other children (9): “Have mercy on us!”
Esmé Squalor (9)
Carmelita Spats (9)
Mr. Poe (12)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
attempting to fix the telegram machine
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
finding the Gorgonian Grotto
SUNNY’S BITING/COOKING:
Chowder (5); birthday cake (11), amuse bouche (12), chewing gum (13)
THE LIBRARY:
Fiona’s Mycological library (1)
V.F.D.:
Volunteer Factual Dispatch (2)
Voluntary Fish Domestication (5)
Visitable Fungal Ditches (5)
Vertical Flame Diversions (6)
Versed Furtive Disclosure (7)
Verse Fluctuation Declaration (7)
Volatile Fungal Deportation (7)
Verifying Fernald’s Defection (10)
Violet’s Fifteenth Date (11)
SNICKET SECRETS:
He had a shoe salesperson force ugly shoes on his feet when he really wanted a bright red pair of shoes with buckles. (1) The shoe store later gets alluded to as “fiercely guarded.”
He posed as a pirate pretending to be amazed. (3)
He is going to a room full of sand to look for a test tube. (3) Is he going to the Gorgonian Grotto?
Most of the dinner parties he attends end in gunfire or tapioca. (5)
He discovered a hiding place in a sideboard. (5)
He owned marmosets. (5)
He writes himself citations of bravery to cheer himself up. (6)
He was picking through a salad trying to find a small, herbed piece of toast to save Kit. (10)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The Daily Punctilio (3)
Mushroom Minutiae (5)
Row, row, row your boat (7)
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (7)
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll (12)
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (12)
books on child rearing (12)
books on proper and improper diets (12)
books on the water cycle (12)
poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Charles Simic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Franz Wright, and Daphne Gottlieb (12)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about the water cycle (1), (6), (13)
the one about being passive (1)
the one about having a personal philosophy (2)
the one about “fits like a glove” (3)
the one about citations of bravery (6)
the one about half the battle (6)
the one about the word “lousy” (7)
the one about things which are difficult to see (8)
the one about considering a life of villainy (9)
the one about the way sadness works (10)
the one about having a dreadful singing voice (11)
the one about reading poetry giving you a feeling of power (12)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
The Baudelaire’s mother used to give them each a Hobson’s choice. Violet could either clean her room, or her mother would sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” over and over. Klaus could either do the dishes, or she would read Edgar Guest to him. Sunny had to choose between a bath or a pink dress. (7)
One time the children left the library window open, and an atlas was ruined. Their parents were very upset. (7)
The parents hid all the books on the shelf where Klaus took the atlas from to another location. (12)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Acted contrary to her personal philosophy: hesitated for a moment, and faced the middle Baudelaire (13)
Affinity for arson: enthusiasm for burning down buildings, no matter how many people were inside (9)
Agree to disagree: you’re probably right, but I’m too embarrassed to admit it (10)
Barracks: a type of bedroom that is usually uncomfortable (5)
Belting out: singing in a particularly loud and particularly irritating voice (11)
Brought Sunny up to speed: told their sister what had happened while she was suffering inside the diving helmet (12)
Byline: name of the person who wrote the article (10)
Byzantine in their design: so complicated that perhaps even Violet Baudelaire would have trouble working them. (3)
Cartographer: someone who is very good with maps, and of whom Violet Baudelaire was particularly fond (1)
Conversational opener: an interesting sentence to say out loud in order to get people talking (5)
Downcast: looking sadly at the floor (13)
Enormous presence: large physical size, combined with a vibrant personality and loud voice (8)
Excellent villain: someone particularly skilled at villainy (9)
Fits like a glove: something is very suitable (3)
Flew off the handle: became extremely angry (7)
Fool’s errand: Errand performed by a fool (7)
For naught: for nothing (3)
Fruits of their labor: the results of the terrible thing they did, even though they did not mean to do it at all (1)
Furtive journey: sneaking (9)
Had no prior experience: who had probably been kidnapped by Count Olaf and his associates on another occasion (9)
Harrowing journey: frantic and extremely distressing (5)
Hemming and hawing: muttering, and clearing of one’s throat, used to avoid making a quick decision (10)
Her voice faltered a bit: sounded as if she weren’t so sure (9)
Impassioned Oratory: emotional speech that the Baudelaires found utterly convincing, even if they did not quite agree with every word (5)
Implement an alternative strategy: would terrorize the Baudelaires in another way (7)
In the final analysis: after much thought, and some debate with my colleagues (13)
Indispensable item: the sugar bowl, although the children did not know why it was so important (5)
Inscrutable: either pleasant or nasty, but it was hard to tell (10)
Lay their cards on the table: receal themselves honestly to Olaf’s wicked henchman (10)
Minutiae: obscure facts (5)
Naming her salvation: something that would save her life or something that would rescue her from the Medusoid Mycelium or an item the eldest Baudelaire sill had in the waterproof pocket of her uniform, sealed in a tin Sunny had found in an underwater cavern (11)
Nodded off: fell asleep without considering even one of the books he had recently read (5)
Of all stripes: Good and bad (7)
Of their own volition: by choice (8)
Only by reputation: I don’t know him personally, but I’ve heard of the work he does. (4)
Opaque: something that is unnecessarily complicated (12)
Pantry: place where antidotes are hopefully stored (11)
Passive: accepting what is happening without doing anything about it (1)
Perifido: It would be foolish to trust one of Olaf’s henchmen (12)
Plaque: metal rectangle with words carved on it, usually to indicate that something important has happened on the spot where the rectangle is attached (2)
Playing with fire: any dangerous or risky activity (7)
Rallied: regained her strength, and ability to breathe (12)
Recede from view: disappear from the porthole as it hurried away from the Queequeg (4)
Resigned: as if the mycologist had given up entirely on defeating Count Olaf (12)
Rivulets: tiny steams of water (13)
Scram: slip out of the room unnoticed and walk down the shadowy hallway Olaf had led them down just a little while earlier (11)
Sideboard: piece of furniture in the dining room, with shelves and drawers to hold various useful items (5)
Shelved the discussion: temporarily stopped their conversation (12)
Spur of the moment: while travelling through the Gorgonian Grotto (6)
Standing vigil: keeping nearby, to make sure everyone is safe (13)
Steeled themselves: summoned up as much strength as they could (11)
Stupefaction: amazement at seeing a man for the first time since their stay at Lucky Smells Lumbermill, when his kindness toward them had been one of the few positive aspects of that otherwise miserable chapter in their lives (2)
Suited up: prepared their helmets for an underwater journey (7)
Tables have turned: a situation that has suddenly been reversed, so that those who were preciously in a powerless position could suddenly find themselves in a powerful one, and vice versa. (12)
Tureen: a wide, deep dish used for serving stew or soup, instead of a small, terrified girl curled up in a piece of deep-sea equipment (8)
Uncharted waters: any place that is unknown, such as a forest in which every explorer has been lost, or one’s own future, which cannot be known until it arrives. (5)
Up and running: not destroyed under suspicious circumstances (6)
Volatile (12)
Waiting in the wings: coming up more quickly than you’d like (6)
Wheeze: make a hoarse, whistling sound indicating that her throat was almost completely closed up (11)
Whet my appetite: one’s hunger being awakened (7)
Whimsical: full of comic nonsense (12)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Absurdio: Philosophers live at the tops of mountains or in ivory towers, not underneath the sea. (5)
Amnesi: You’re forgetting something! (13)
Amuse bouche: Tiny water chestnut sandwiches, with a spread of cheese and sesame seeds (12)
And like sugar bowl. (6)
Antidote? (7)
Aye? (2)
Aye. (13)
Bamboozle! (I’m confused.) (3)
Bath or pink dress. (7)
Bugaboo? (5)
Caligari (1)
Chowda? (4)
Code (13)
Cook and teeth! (13)
Correctiona: Fiona was right, too – we’d better hurry if we want to escape from the Carmelita before Olaf notices we’re not in the brig. (13)
Count Olaf. (4)
Crew? (8)
Cuisi-: I’m looking forward to examining the kitch- (3)
Dephinpat? (What are Volunteer Factuall Dispatches, exactly?) (3)
Distance? (12)
Due: (Two) (13)
Esmelita: Along with Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats. (1)
Etartsigam: The initials were J.S. (5) (magistrate backwards)
Flosh: Don’t worry – I cleaned my teeth before using them as kitchen implements. (4)
Food: (talking about what to use as a code) (7)
Friend! (1)
Gack!: Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog! (13)
Gangway! (13)
Greenhut!: You could be of enormous help. (13)
Gum! (13)
Help! (13)
Hewenkella: (How will we be able to see our way?) (6)
Hmmm: (Something about knowing Violet was lying.) (7)
Hobson: I didn’t have much choice, given our surroundings. (7)
Hour? (8)
I? (What can I do?) (2)
I dunno, look! (6)
Imposiyakto?: How can we get to the bottom of the toboggan? (1)
Lousy. (7)
Malady: I’m beginning to feel unwell. (8)
Mamasan: (Something about what their mother used to say.) (7)
Me? (7)
Mission? (2)
Mission: Once we find the sugar bowl, our work here is done. (6)
Mmph!: (Dragging a diving helmet out of the kitchen) (13)
More code (13)
Mycolo: (Inside this helmet is the bugaboo of the mycological pantheon – the Meducoid Mycelium) (13)
Near you. (12)
No! (12)
Noblaym: But it’s still not our fault. (1)
Nottooti? (How do you know so much about us?) (2)
Obvio!: There’s only one answer that will get us into the submarine. (1)
Olaf! (4)
One (13)
On three: After I say one and two. (13)
Oxo?: Does that mean we can breathe without our helmets? (6)
Passive (1)
Periscope (5)
Pesto lo mein: (I found a package of soft Chinese noodles, which I tossed with an Italian basil sauce I got out of a jar. (7)
Pinstripe: Don’t worry – I’m used to ill-fitting clothing. (3)
Please (10)
Pronto: (7)
Procto?: The other end? (4)
Provisions: cooking supplies (11)
Quarwa? (5)
Quigley (1)
Rekoop: I had a brief nap, and when I woke up I felt well enough to cook something (12)
Rendezvous: (13)
Rest here. (12)
Sayonara (13)
Selphawa!: We can’t think about Quigley now – we have to think about ourselves. (1)
Serve cake: (13)
Shalom!: (Hello) (1)
Shivalrush: That’s very kind of you. (7)
Shiver me timbers! (We’re surprised!) (3)
Silencio: We never heard a reply. (4)
Sink?: Wouldn’t the sugar bowl just drift to the ocean floor? (4)
Snack!: Why don’t we stop for a bite to eat? (7)
Sous: I haven’t been cooking for very long. (2)
Speaking which (7)
Subjavik: (something about everything being so dark that it is unrecognizable (1)
Taykashans!: It’s our only chance to travel safely through these waters. (1)
Tedium (something about the watercycle being dull (1)
Thank you, saved me. (12)
Three can soup, jar peanut btter, box crackers, pesto, wasabi, lo mein. But nadasuchre. (6)
Tingamebob: There’s plenty of materials here in the sand. (7)
Traitor (13)
Tuckered: (I’m exhausted) (12)
Ugh: (talking about Carmlita singing and dancing) (9)
Ulp: I don’t like the idea of drifting by myself in a diving helmet. (6)
Utensi: (Something about utensils) (7)
Valve? (13)
V.F.D.! (1)
Wane: (Talking about the Meducoid Mycelium) (7)
Wasabi? (7)
Wasabi. (11)
Water (12)
What next? (12)
Whyno? (Why not?) (3)
Yes, Fiona? (6)
Yomhuledet: Don’t worry – Phil and I have arranged a surprise dessert for tomorrow night. (4)
GEOGRAPHY:
Mount Fraught (m) (1)
Stricken Stream (1)
Gulag Archipelago (4)
Mediocre Barrier Reef (4)
Anwhistle Aquatics (4)
Lake Lachrymose (m) (5)
Heimlich Hospital (m) (5)
Gorgonian Grotto (5)
Briny Beach (12)
FOODOLOGY:
Lemon-lime soda (3)
Chowder (5)
Peanut butter and crackers
Pesto lo mein
Chef’s Salad (10)
tagliatelle grande (11)
gum (11)
water chestnuts (11)
sesame seeds (11)
white, soft cheese (11)
Coconut cream cake (11)
Amuse bouche (12)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:43:58 GMT -5
THE PENULTIMATE PERIL
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1): so many of her teeth are growing in that they don’t appear to be of such unusual size
Count Olaf (1)
Kit Snicket (1)
The man with the beard but no hair
The woman with the hair but no beard
Jacques Snicket (2)
Geraldine Julienne (2)
Quigley Quagmire (2)
Captain Widdershins (2)
Duncan and Isadora Quagmire (2)
Charles (2)
Frank (2)
Hugo (2)
Colette (2)
Kevin (2)
Ernest (2)
Hector (2)
Count Omar (3)
cranky rabbi (3): realized Hebrew was read right to left instead of left to right (7)
Esmé Squalor (4)
Carmelita Spats (4)
Uncle Monty (5)
Fiona (5)
Sir (5)
Vice Principal Nero (6): purposefully left a ring on the table of the restaurant
Mr. Remora (6)
Mrs. Bass (6): “so I had to resort to a life of crime.”
Hal (6)
Woman and a chemist (7): Colette and friend?
Ambidextrous man (7): Kevin
Housekeeper (7): drilled a hole behind an ornamental vase to look at elevator cables annoying sound was coming from floor seven above her
Villain in a coffee shop (7)
waitress (7)
Banker (7): Mr. Poe
family (7): was searching for a doily
taxi driver (7)
man with unusually shaped back (7): Hugo – why did he leave his luggage with the taxi driver?
Woman in a diving helmet (7): on the sea side of the hotel, trying to find something in the water
A woman and a man (7): they loved each other but were separated
Four children (7): about to receive some dreadful news
A person (7): learned something, there was a fuss
Trainer of people who climb down unravelling rope (7): is in hiding and does spider imitations
Dewy Denouement (8)
Edith Wharton (8): recruited Dewey
Dewey’s comrade (8): Kit? arrived at Heimlich Hospital to find Hal
Josephine Anwhistle (8)
Madame Lulu (8)
Math teacher of the woman with the hair but no beard (8)
Justice Strauss (8): admitted to horse-thievery (9)
Jerome Squalor (8)
Hooky (9): double-crossed Olaf and stole his submarine
Beatrice (9): stole Esmé’s sugar bowl
hotel guest who says “I didn’t realize this was a sad occasion (10)
taxi driver: Lemony Snicket (10): he had the sugar bowl? or the woman was the one looking for things in the ocean side of the hotel
woman hiding in the trunk (10)
Mrs. Morrow (10)
Mr. Lesko (10)
Jerry (11): Klaus was mistaken for him – maybe the man from Veblen Hall was looking for Jerome?
Authorities (12): guarding the entrance – who are these people?
Eleanora Poe (13)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
Drag chutes to guide the boat to the ocean (13)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
Reading Native Son (12)
SUNNY’S BITING/COOKING:
? She burnt down the hotel. (13)
THE LIBRARY:
The hotel
V.F.D.:
Verbal Fridge Dialogue (2)
Volunteer Factual Dispatch (2)
Vessel For Disaccharides (2)
Village of Fowl Devotees (2)
Vision Furthering Device (6)
Vernacularly Fastened Door (6)
Valley of Four Drafts (8)
Verse Fluctuation Declaration (9)
J.S.:
Lurking around the basement (4) – Jerome Squalor
Said Charles must be very careful if he wants to find the Baudelaires (5)
Told Sir to bring his valuables to a party (5) – Julio Sham
She has been using her vision furthering device to watch the skies (6) – Justice Strauss
SNICKET SECRETS:
He was at the opera house on a fateful evening, hurrying out before a certain woman could spot him. (1)
He had an occasion to should, “Please turn around! I think they’ve driven through those hedges! (4)
He once threw himself down a flight of stairs to avoid a milliner because he discovered a sinister truth about her berets, but the paramedic who repaired his arm fired him from playing accordion in a certain opera after only two and a half performances. (6) La Forza del Destino?
He is hiding under the coffee table of a notorious villain at a cocktail party. (6)
He is crying as he writes this. (8)
He thought the sausages were arranged in the shape of a K instead of an R, so a submarine was destructed (11)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll (1)
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1)
La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi (1)
The Daily Punctilio (2)
John Godfrey Saxe (7): poem about elephant and blind men
Edith Wharton (8)
Odious Lusting After Finance (8)
Bion of Borysthenes (8): supposedly one of the first volunteers
Native Son by Richard Wright (9)
Robert Frost (9)
Willa Cather (10)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about the world being like a calm pond (1)
the one about deciding whether or not to trust someone (1)
the one about destiny (1)
the one about the mirror (2)
the one about when someone is crying (2)
the one about the phrase “off with you” and someone mistaking your home for their home and your valuable belongings for theirs (3)
the one about the worst thing which could happen in a library (3)
the one about “silence is golden” (4)
the one about “it’s a small world” (5) which led to a waiter war
the one about the three ways you can leave a job (6)
the one about the advantages of being taciturn (6)
the one about the denouement of a story not being the end of the story (8)
the one about Dewey being wrong about how being noble enough is all we can ask for (8)
the one about what to do when someone has disappointed you (8)
the one about how in an instant everything can change (9)
the one about not seeing how laws or sausages are made (10)
the one about it being difficult to make one’s way in the world without being wicked at one point or another (12)
the one about the burning of a book being sad (13)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
When their mother was pregnant with Sunny, she lounged on a sofa in the library. Their father would get lemonade and pumpernickel toast for her and adjust her pillows. He would play music from a phonograph, and they would dance.
The parents went to a showing of La Forza del Destino (1)
Their father wore a frown when he was confused (2)
The family went to the Hotel Preludio for a weekend once. Sunny had carrots for breakfast. (2)
The parents used to play backgammon, and when their mother would win, she would say to their father, “Bertrand, I have won again. Prepare to eat crow.” And then she would tickle him. (6)
The Baudelaire’s father was a fan of American humorist poetry. He would recite about an elephant to the children. (7)
Their father used to meet Dewey, and they would recite poetry so they would recognize each other through their disguises. (7)
Their mother always said as soon as Sunny could walk, she would be going places. (11)
The parents were good listeners when listening to their children. (11)
At the Hotel Preludio, their mother did magic tricks with rolls, and their father pressed all the buttons in an elevator to annoy Eleanora Poe. Sunny learned how to blow bubbles that weekend. (13)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Adroit technical faculties: a knack for inventing mechanical devices (1)
At sea: lost and confused (8)
Augmented: increased dramatically as they realized they had some bad news for Kit Snicket (2)
Blind leading the blind: a confusing situation in which the people in charge know nothing more than the people following them (11)
Bootless: likely to get the siblings in even more trouble (10)
Budding gourmand: young girl with a strong interest in cooking (6)
Busman’s holiday: when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives (5)
Caught a few winks: slept fitfully in the closet-sized Room 121 (11)
Denouement: unraveling of a confusing or mysterious story (8)
Discover crucial information necessary to save their skins: keep them alive for the next terrible chapter in their lives (3)
Disputants: people who are arguing (7)
Distraught: sad and upset (1)
Dual Purpose: enabled the Baudelaires to do two things at once (13)
Eating crow: enduring humiliation (6)
Exit by mutual agreement: you wanted to quit, and your employer wanted to fire you, and that you ran out of the office, factory, or monastery before anyone could decide who got to go first (6)
Fend for themselves: go first from guardian to guardian, and then from desperate situation to desperate situation, trying to survive, and solve the mysteries that hung over their heads like smoke (13)
Figurehead: wooden statue of an octopus attacking a man in a diving suit (4)
Fired: your employer was disappointed with you (6)
Fortify: a few sips of ta might give the children some much-needed strength for their ordeal (11)
Get a little shut-eye: lie down behind a large, wooden desk and hope that nobody rings for the concierge until morning. (7)
Get their bearings: stop staring at this perplexing sight and direct their attention to Kit Snicket (2)
Gruffly: in a tone that indicated he had no intention of being more polite (5)
Had seen better days: had lost most of its petals and wilted considerably (1)
Hazard a guess: attempt to answer Klaus’s question (3)
Holding a grudge: was an enemy of the Baudelaires (6)
Immeasurably: a whole lot (8)
Impresario: someone who puts on theatrical spectacles (11)
Inadvertent trouble: published in the newspaper that the Baudelaire orphans had murdered Jacques Snicket, whom she mistakenly identified as Count Olaf (2)
It’s my pleasure: There’s nothing I would rather do less (5)
Let something slip: said something she wished she hadn’t (4)
Sequentially: so that the events in the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are related in the order in which they occurred (not a chapter)
Not born yesterday: young or innocent enough to believe things certain people say about the world (8)
Occupation: a job; how one spends one’s time; the state one is in (11)
Oft: often (7)
Pandemonium: a crowd of blindfolded people attempting to give evidence to three judges (11)
Peccant: so hungry for evil deeds as to be unhealthy (12)
Postpone their grief: mourn the death of Dewey Denouement at a later time (10)
Prate: chatter (7)
Preoccupied: in desperate and mysterious circumstances brought about by Count Olaf (2); wondering what exactly Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats were doing at the Hotel Denouement (4)
Quit: you were disappointed with your employer (6)
Rail on: bicker for hours on end (7)
Rampant: without anyone to stop it (2)
Signage: signs (2)
Small mercy: a tiny thing that has gone right in a world gone wrong (8)
Social order: the systems people use to organize their lives (13)
Sporadic: consisting of a great number of occupations, held for a short time and under very unusual circumstances (11)
Stint: dreadful period of time (6)
Strain: physical activity that might endanger either the woman or her future offspring (1)
Struck someone a fatal blow: killed one of the people in the room (9)
Stuff of legend: very famous for being very loud (4)
Taciturn demeanor: only communicate when absolutely necessary, so as not to call attention to her youth and relative inexperience in employment (6)
Takes the cake: I find this especially amusing and outrageous! (12)
Theologic wars: arguing over what different people believe (7)
Thirsty aspirations: things people want
Took center stage: stepped forward, and twisted her body into an unusual shape (8)
Turned on his heel: turned around in a somewhat fancy matter (4)
Unconvincingly: clearly telling a lie (4)
Unfathomable: blank, so the Baudelaires could not tell if he was giving them a friendly warning or a sinister threat (3)
Ween: think (7)
Whimsical: odd and impulsive (7)
SUNNY SPEECH:
Accident! (10)
Aha! (8)
Also hope so. (2)
Andiamo: I’d be happy to take you there. (6)
Bildungsroman: Since that moment, our story has been a long, dreadful education in the wicked ways of the world and the mysterious secrets hidden in all of its corners. (11)
Burn down hotel. (12)
But truth. (10)
Brunch? (1)
Carrots for breakfast (2)
Catalog? (12)
Change?: (Should we change into our uniforms?) (2)
Child. (11)
Concierge (6)
Condition (1)
Dangerous. Take stairs. (13)
Denouement! (9)
Dewey. (8)
Drat. (13)
Dual purpose. (13)
Each was partly in the right. (7)
Efcharisto. (8)
Elephant. (7)
Ernest? (7)
Expound: I’m afraid I don’t know what that word means. (2)
Expound again. (2)
Father. (7)
Fire! Use stairs. Do not use elevator! (13)
Frank first. (3)
Frankernest. (7)
Galimatias!: (Nonsense!) (8)
Good-bye. (13)
Help me. (13)
Henribergson: It’s more complicated than that. (10)
Hmm. (2)
I feel fine. (13)
It’s dark. (7)
J. S. (7)
John Godfrey Saxe. (7)
Kevin!
La Forza del Destino (1)
Like blind men with elephant. (7)
Mama and Poppa and poison darts? (11)
Maybe no. (7)
Mob psychology (10)
Mycelium? (you know about the Meducoid Mycelium?) (8)
Nidiculous: I think I’m still a child. (3)
Nine: (Ninth floor) (6)
No. (13)
No habla Esperanto: I’m sorry; I don’t know what you’re talking about. (6)
Noble enough. (13)
Not yet. One more thing. (12)
Oh. (13)
Olaf (1)
Olaf or us? (10)
Or both. (2)
Or Ernest. (7)
Or fail us. (11)
Or Frank. (3)
Or put gun down. (9)
Our parents. (8)
Partially. (10)
Peek. (11)
Penulhoo? (2)
Please. (9)
Poem. (7)
Poppycock!: Nonsense. (10)
Preludio. (13)
Pronto: (Quickly) (13)
Queequeg? (2)
Real McCoy! (11)
Run? (10)
Scalia: It doesn’t seem like the literal interpretation makes any sense. (11)
Signal. (13)
Smoke? (8)
Spatulas as oars. (13)
Spinsickle: laundy room (7)
Stairs. (13)
Sugar bowl (2)
Sunny Baudelaire (11)
Sunny Baudelaire please help: Yes, I’m Sunny Baudelaire, and my siblings and I need your help uncovering the mysterious plot unfolding in the Hotel Denouement, and signaling our findings to the members of V.F.D. (6)
The fire. (13)
The funnel Frank said. Or Ernest. (7)
The last safe place is safe no more. (13)
The world is quiet here. (7)
Thursday (8)
Thursinterest: He knew that Thursday was important. (3)
Tired. (7)
Torn: I see the advantages and disadvantages of both plans of action. (10)
Trap. (7)
Trust?: Does Kit Snicket seem like a reliable person, and should we follow her? (1)
Unfathomable (11)
Unsafe: I’d rather not find the impostor if I’m all by myself. (3)
Us alone? Do you really think three children can accomplish all this by themselves? (2)
Verdict? (8)
We don’t know. (10)
We failed you. (9)
We’re sorry (10)
What? How? (7)
What else can we do? (13)
What is next? (13)
Why do this? (12)
Why Nero? Why Remora? Why Bass? Why Hal? (7)
Yes. (6)
You rang (6)
You’ll fail. (12)
GEOGRAPHY:
Briny Beach (1)
Hotel Denouement (2)
Hotel Preludio (2)
Caligari Carnival (2)
Mortmain Mountains (2)
Gorgonian Grotto (2)
Coral formation of dubious quality (2)
A certain clump of seaweed (2)
Village of Fowl Devotees (2)
Lousy Lane (5)
Lucky Smells Lumbermill (5)
Paltryville (5)
Finite Forest (5)
Prufrock Preparatory School (6)
Heimlich Hospital (6)
Lake Lachrymose (8)
childhood home of the man with the beard but no hair (8)
FOODOLOGY:
loaves of bread (2)
butter
ajm
melted chocolate
pastries (muffins, donuts, custard eclairs)
quiche
smoked fish
fruit
juice
coffee
tea
marmalade
Rice (6)
Shrimp vindaloo
chana aloo masala
tandoori salmon
samosas
mango lassi
sada rava dosai
fried bananas
candy
rhubarb pie (7)
DEWEY DECIMAL MENTIONS:
000: Computer science, information, & general works (3): employees’ quarters
020: Library & information sciences (8)
025: Library Operations (6): Laundry room
101: Theory of Philosophy (3): reception desk
118: Force and Energy (3): elevators
121: Epistemology (theory of knowledge) (4): room where harpoon gun was hidden; room where the Baudelaires were locked up (10)
123: Determinism and indeterminism (3): green wooden floors
128: Humankind (3): wooden bench with rings on it from people not using coasters
131: Parapsychological and occult methods for achieving well-being, happiness, success (3): enormous waterfall
135: Dreams & mysteries (3): couches – had a doily hiding under one of the cushions (7)
152: Sensory Perception, movement, emotions, & physiological drives (3): man playing a grand piano
165: Fallacies & sources of error: where Count Olaf was locked up
168: Argument & persuasion (3): newstand
174: Occupational ethics (7): room a banker was staying in – Mr. Poe
175: Ethics of recreation, leisure, public performances, communication (3): concierge desk
176: Ethics of sex & reproduction (3): an enormous woman shouting a man’s name over and over in an annoyed tone of voice
178: Ethics of consumption (7): coffee shop
296: Judaism (3): a cranky rabbi
371: Schools and their activities: special education (3): educational guests
469: Portuguese (3): Portuguese guests
547: Organic chemistry (5): all sort of smelly things in there
594: Mollusca & Molluscoidea (7): family with tanks of tropical fish
613: Personal Health & Safety (3): a sauna
621: Applied Physics (4)
674: lumber processing, wood products, cork (3): associates in the lumber industry
697: Heating, ventilating, air conditioning engineering (3): the controls for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
786: Keyboard, mechanical, electrophonic, percussion instruments (5): concertina is in this room
792: Stage presentations (3): a theater
831: German poetry (3): a gathering of German poets
954: India & neighboring southasian countries (6): Indian restaurant
999: Extraterrestrial worlds (3): astronomy observatory
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:46:16 GMT -5
THE END
CHARACTERS:
Violet Baudelaire (1)
Klaus Baudelaire (1)
Sunny Baudelaire (1)
Count Olaf (1): the first time he’s ever in chapter 1 more than just mentioned!
Kit Snicket (1)
Quagmire Triplets (1)
man with a rickshaw business in the Caspian sea (1)
Carmelita Spats (m) (1)
Esmé Squalor (1)
Captain WIddershins (m) (1)
Friday (2)
Ishmael (3): used to be a school teacher who taught chemistry class (10): escaped from a cage Count Olaf locked him in (11)
Uncle Monty (m) (3)
Madame Lulu (m) (3)
Justice Strauss (m) (3)
Fiona (m) (3)
Snow Scouts (m) (3)
Alonso (4): endured a terrible political scandal (11)
Ariel (4): escaped from prison after disguising herself as a man for years (11)
Sherman (4)
Robinson (4): bearded man in overalls
Erewhon (4): old woman: lived on an island even farther away (11)
Wheydon (4): red-haired woman: arrived on a raft of books (11)
Ferdinand (4)
Larsen (4)
Omeros (4): a boy about Klaus’s age
Finn (4): a young girl
Brewster (4)
Calypso (4)
Byam (4): had an unusally curly mustache: lived a simply life as a sailor (11)
Mr. Pitcairn (4)
Dr. Kurtz (4): veterinarian
Professor Fletcher (4)
Madame Nordoff (4) – suggests they return to Winnipeg? (11)
Rabbi Bligh (4)
Jonah Bellamy (4)
Sadie Bellamy (4)
Dr. Orwell (m) (4)
Mrs. Miranda Caliban (4): Friday’s mother
Charles (m) (5)
woman disguised as a pretzel vendor (5)
financial expert (5)
coat-check boy (5)
playwright (5)
waitress (5)
woman disguised as a puppy (5)
Dewey Denouement (m) (6)
Incredibly Deadly Viper (6)
Thursday (m) (8): Friday’s father, who is still alive
Mr. Poe (m) (9)
Little girl with one eyebrow and one ear (m) (10)
terrible woman (m) (10): drunkard who killed a man with a cantaloupe
two brothers (m) (10): owned a melon farm
Monday (11): Count Olaf’s associate, a woman
old man who was involved in a political scandal (11)
Gonzalo (m) (11): Alonso’s acquaintance
a man who owned a schooner (11): Count Olaf decided to steal the schooner, adopted grandson had his same name
Humphrey (m) (11): Weyden’s acquaintance
Betrand (m): Omeros’ acquaintance
trolley driver (m) (13)
botanical hybridization expert (m) (13)
typewriter repairpeople (m) (13)
violinist at the restaurant where the Baudelaire parents met (m) (13)
Hector (m) (13)
Fernald (m) (13)
Beatrice II (13)
VIOLET’S INVENTION:
water filtration device (13)
KLAUS’S RESEARCH:
read A Series of Unfortunate Events (12)
childcare (13)
SUNNY’S BITING/COOKING:
helped cook island food
baby food (13)
THE LIBRARY:
the arboretum
SNICKET SECRETS:
He stood on a large wooden boat, ready to take notes, but by the time the storm was over, he never wanted to speak of it again. (2)
He spoke with the Baudelaire’s mother, and she said to ask people which secret code they prefer, or find out whom they’ve been spying on lately. (2)
He was shipwrecked recently and washed aboard a barge where he was served a five-star meal after the storm in a creek. (4)
He was hiding in an alley pretending to look for a puppy who was actually a disguised woman the same day Sunny had her first swim in the Fountain of Victorious Finance. (5)
“or most secret organizations have at least one rhetorical analyst who is under suspicion.” (7)
After he concluded his investigation, he visited certain graves, spent his mornings standing out on a brae staring out at the same sea at which the Baudelaires stared. (13)
REFERENCES (real and made up):
Zombies in the Snow
The Little Engine that Could (10)
story about a girl who takes the first bite of an entire bushel of apples (13)
Ivan Lachrymose – Lake Explorer (13)
Mushroom Minutiae (13)
The Night has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon (13)
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin (13)
P.G. Wodehouse
V.F.D.:
Very Flavorless Diet (5)
Vaporetto of Favorite Detritus (13)
Volunteer Fire Department (13)
SNICKETISMS:
the one about the layers of an onion (1)
the one about a moral compass (1)
the one about there being lots of words which mean more than one thing (2)
the one about peer pressure (5)
the one about hallmarks (6)
the one about “as honest as the day is long” scarcely meaning anything at all (6)
the one about thinking about something being like picking up stones while on a walk to shatter the glass doors of a museum (8)
the one about the Cimmerians (8)
the one about “in the dark” and ballerinas (9)
the one about the Little Engine that Could (10)
the one about happiness being easier to get used to than despair (rootbeer floats) (11)
the one about how the first bite of an apple is the best (13)
the one about the end (13)
the one about crying about all the terrible things that have happened (13)
BAUDELAIRE FAMILY HISTORY:
Their mother told them people love to talk about themselves. (2)
Their mother had a nifty card trick. (4)
Their mother used to make ceviche at the beginning of crab season. (4)
Their father let Sunny swim in the Fountain of Victorious Finance on a very hot day while their mother was in a building receiving a weather report and a naval map which she would study later that evening. A pretzel vendor spied on them and took pictures, which she gave to a financial expert (Esme?) who went to a restaurant (Veritable French Diner to meet Jerome?) where the coat-check boy took the camera and gave it to a playwright for dessert (Al Funcoot?) but the waitress threw the dessert out (Jacqueline Szezka?). (5)
Klaus’s father would find him in the morning still clutching his flashlight and his book. (8)
The family once attended a Sicilian picnic. (9)
Before Sunny was born, Violet and Klaus had an argument about whose turn it was to take the garbage out. Violet’s mother brought her star anise tea, and she remembered it was her turn. (10)
The harpoon gun was used to shoot at a cotton candy machine at a county fair when the parents were very young. (11)
Their father used to make curried peanut soup, and their mother used to make gingerbread. (12)
Their parents met at a candle-lit restaurant where a violinist was playing, and there was something hidden in the violin which a girl put there, and a man made the girl an orphan, and a tea party was held at a penthouse suite, and a baker made scones, and the baker’s assistant smuggled a secret ingredient into the scone batter, and someone pretended to be a fire. (13)
The children are named after people who have died. (13)
SNICKET DICTIONARY:
Aberrant: very, very wrond, and causing much grief (13) (nod to TBB)
Anarchic: apple-loving (13)
Area of expertise: the part of the room in which each Baudelaire would most like to spend time (9)
Argy-bargy: argument (11)
Braeman/braewoman: someone who lives all alone on a hill (5)
Contemptuously: while trying to scratch his nose within the confines of the bird cage (7)
Countered: said in a firm and sensible tone of voice, even though it was not necessarily a sensible thing to say (4)
Detritus: all sorts of strange items (2)
Don the garments of shibboleth: wear the warm and somewhat unflattering clothing that was customary to people they hardly knew (3)
Don’t rock the boat: don’t upset people by doing something that is not customary (4)
Dubious scientific efficacy: unlikely to heal sore feet (3)
Feet of clay: a person who appears to be honest and true, but who turns out to have a hidden weakness or treacherous secret (7)
Grating: irritating, and sadly familiar (5)
Had Ishmael in tow: dragged along he sleigh behind them, sitting on his white chair as if he were a king with his feet still covered in hunks of clay and his woolly beard billowing in the wind (6)
Hallmarks: distinguishing characteristics (5)
Herculean task: something you would rather not do on a library raft floating on a flooding coastal shelf (13)
Hold their tongues: keep from confronting Olaf about his foolishness (1)
How do you like them apples?: I find this situation quite remarkable (13)
Idleness: lounging around with Mrs. Caliban, sipping cordial and staring at the sea (5)
Imperious: mighty and a bit snobbish (6)
In medias res: in the midst of things or in the middle of a narrative (13)
Insouciant: the opposite of curious (5)
Intact: not broken, so the food stored inside was still edible (1)
Joint was hopping: full of islanders in white robes, all holding items they had scavenged from the coastal shelf (3)
Labor: the process by which a woman gives birth (13)
Languor: inability to pull a large, wooden sleigh at a reasonable pace (11)
Look a gift horse in the mouth: turn down an offer of a hot meal, no matter how disappointed they were in the person who was offering it (8)
Palatable: that wasn’t ceviche (4)
Peer: someone with whom you are associating (5)
Pressure: the influence such people often have (5)
Quivering in mirth: making unpleasant rustling noises (11)
Reconcile: admit that it didn’t matter in the slightest whose turn it was, and that the only important thing was to get the garbage out of the kitchen before the smell spread to the entire mansion (10)
Refresher course: another opportunity to feel the stalks and caps of the Medusoid Mycelium begin to sprout in her little throat (12)
Reiterated: announced for the umpteenth time (1)
Revere: praise highly, and have a great deal of respect for (2)
Savor: read slowly, as each sentence in their parents’ handwriting was like a gift from beyond the grave (12)
Sheepishly: looking quite embarrassed to be following the orders of a young girl (2)
Sibilant: a sort of whistle or hiss (12)
Soda jerk: ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue (11)
Submerged: hidden (3)
Succumbing: aceepting, rather than refusing, what you are given (5)
Talaric: just reaching the ankles (5)
The end: completion of a story. (13)
Tide them over: help deal with a difficult situation (13)
Under a cloud: people who are out of favor in a particular community (6)
Unfavorable light: the things the Baudelaires had done that were perhaps as treacherous as Count Olaf (3)
Zabras: small boats usually used off the coasts of Spain and Portugal (9)
SUNNY SPEECH:
All overboard. (1)
Already lost. (2)
Anais: In the flesh. (8)
And baby. (8)
And Dewey is dead. (13)
And if not? (8)
And kitchen, maybe horseradish. (12)
And now. (5)
And spices? (10)
Apples! Bitter apples! (12)
Beans: Count Olaf is spouting pure nonsense. (1)
Boswell: Your life doesn’t interest me. (7)
Brae? (3)
But what to do? (7)
Cloves, cardamom, arrowroot, wormwood. (12)
Coastal shelf. (2)
Cook? (3)
Demarc? (What’s a facilitator?) (3)
Diaspora: We live in such a distant place that the battle between V.F.D. and their enemies seems very far away. (5)
Dreyfuss?: What precisely are you accusing us of? (6)
Electra: A family shouldn’t keep such terrible secrets. (10)
Enigmorama: (It seems this island has plenty of secrets.) (8)
Equivalent Flotilla: (we’re in the same boat) (1)
Familia? (9)
Fat chance. (3)
Ferment? (3)
Fibber. (6)
First swim. (5)
Fountain. (5)
Friday! Take apple! (13)
Fritters with cinnamon. (9)
Fungus! (7)
Fustianed! (You’re lying!) (7)
Gal Friday. (3)
Gentreefive: (agreement) (12)
Gibbon: We want to read this history, no matter how miserable it is. (10)
Grate coconut. Delicious cake. (4)
Guesso. (3)
Have an apple. (13)
Hightail it: We’d better hurry. (12)
Holiday? (3)
Hope horseradish. (12)
How many? (8)
I still miss home. (5)
If fire, then saltbake carp. (7)
If we fail, at least we die reading together. (12)
In medias res! (13)
Incredi!: (Incredibly Deadly Viper!) (6)
Ink. (9)
Janiceps: I’m of two minds about living here. (5)
Jojishoji: I don’t believe that abridging the freedom of expression and the free exercise thereof is the proper way to run a community (10)
Kikbucit? (Is Count Olaf dead?) (2)
Kit did. (7)
Kontiki: There’s no way they’ll survive the journey. (13)
Land? Don’t see. (2)
Land ho! (2)
Lethe?: (What’s an opiate?) (10)
McGuffin: Your scheming means nothing in this place. (13)
Meledrub: I find that hard to believe. (4)
Negihama: (I could prepare some Japanese dishes for the colony if there were any wasabi to be had.) (4)
Neiklot: Why are you telling us about this ring? (10) (Tolkien spelled backward)
No apples. (10)
No bait and no net. Deep sea dive? (1)
No. In city. (5)
No throw this. (3)
No time. (13)
Nospine?: (Inveterate?) (5)
Okkulaklaus?: What about Klaus’s glasses? (3)
Or Eutrema. (12)
Or the triplets? (2)
Our parents. (12)
Ours too. (13)
Parents? (1)
Peer pressure (9)
Pellucid theatrics: (Your disguise isn’t working.) (6)
Perhaps (4)
Phearst: We should rescue her promptly. (13)
Plethora? (12)
Poppycock. (2)
Push Olaf overboard. (1)
Pyrrhonic?: How can you be sure of such a thing based on our clothing? (4)
Quid pro quo?: (If we help you, will you help Kit?) (8)
Razoo: You’re the one not to be trusted. (12)
Safe. (8)
Safe here! (13)
Same boat. (3)
Service à la Russe (9): Even with the simplest of ingredients, I could prepare an extremely elaborate meal (9)
Six six seven. (9)
Soubise!: Dinner is served! (1)
Split up. (13)
Stockpot (13)
Storm scavawha? (2)
Takk: (Good snake, Viper!) (7)
Taylit: Let’s follow the reptile and see where it heads. (9)
Tell us first. (7)
The shelf is flooding. (13)
Trahison des clercs! You’re forgetting about the quick-acting poison in the fungus! (12)
Tuber? (8)
Tumurchap (12)
Unless. (1)
Vaporetto? (13)
Viper. (8)
We know it. (13)
We’ll give you apples if you help. (13)
What? Who? (2)
What you mean? (7)
What you mean what you mean what I mean? (11)
Whatya fixin? (4)
Whisk. (3)
Who are you? (10)
Words fail me. (9)
Worried. (7)
Yaw: Ishmael’s story is
Yes. (6)
Yomhashoah: Never again. (7)
Yuck. (3)
GEOGRAPHY:
Briny Beach (m) (1)
Hotel Denouement (m) (1)
Lake Lachrymose (m) (1)
The island (2)
Caligari Carnival (m) (3)
Mortmain Mountains (m) (3)
Prufrock Preparatory School (m) (4)
Village of Fowl Devotees (m) (4)
Lucky Smells Lumbermill (m) (5)
Fountain of Victorious Finance (m) (5)
667 Dark Avenue (m) (5)
Finite Forest (m) (9)
Heimlich Hospital (m) (9)
Queequeg (m) (9)
Lucky Smells Melon Farm (10)
Café Salmonella (m) (10)
The Bistro Smelt (10)
Anwhistle Aquatics (m) (10)
Lousy Lane (m) (12)
FOODOLOGY:
ceviche (4)
cold salad of white beans, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, mixed together with lime juice, olive oil, and cayenne pepper
Turkish Coffee (8)
Oysters Rockefeller (8)
Onion soup (8)
Prosciutto (9)
Star anise tea (10)
Spices: sage, oregano, paprika, parsley, garlic salt, turmeric, nutmeg, marjoram, powdered lemon peel, salt, pepper, vindaloo rub, chipotle peppers, tarragon (12)
Curried peanut soup (12)
Gingerbread (12)
applesauce (13)
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:50:57 GMT -5
LEMONY SNICKET: THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Introduction:
cryptic -> enigmatic -> mysterious -> arcane -> abstruse -> cryptic
Daniel Handler -> publisher -> doorman -> elderly woman -> a stranger ->
Is the doorman in the publisher’s letter Hooky? (x)
Who is Julie Battberg? (xv)
Is this entire thing just a farce? (xv)
Chapter One:
Why was Mr. Snicket’s death published in the newspaper? Because it is an unreliable newspaper, and someone called the newspaper and told them things that weren’t necessarily true.
Who took this? [photograph of a baby] V.F.D.
Places:
two shops in the photograph of the coffin? (4)
Café Kafka (5)
Hazy Harbor (7)
Valorous Farms Dairy (11)
Robber Road (11)
Snicket Dictionary:
innuendo: people who call up newspapers and tell them things that aren’t necessarily true (5)
Characters:
Dr. Charley Patton, adjunct professor, folk song department, Scriabin Institute for Accuracy in Music (8)
Cheesemakers (11)
Jacob Snicket (11) Lemony’s father
Snicket’s mother (17): conducted an investigation at a mill
Snicket’s siblings (17): Jacques insisted he got to finish his tea
References:
The Daily Punctilio
The Little Snicket Lad
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Old McDonald had a Farm
Chapter Two:
Why has Mr. Snicket dedicated his life to the Baudelaire case? Because he was in love with their mother.
Is this letter authentic? [calligraphy R] I think so. It has the official seal of Winnipeg at the end of the letter.
Places:
Orion Observatory (25)
Veblen Hall (30)
Prufrock Prep (30)
Snicket Dictionary:
Characters:
The Duchess of Winnipeg, or someone posing as the Duchess of Winnipeg (R): gives an annual lecture at the Orion Observatory (25)
Baron van de Wetering (26)
Beatrice (26)
References:
Charlotte’s Web (27)
Green Mansions (27)
Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer (27)
Chapter 3:
Why does Count Olaf have a tattoo of an eye on his ankle? Because he was a member of V.F.D.
Why has this building been abandoned? Because someone gave up the secret location of V.F.D.
Places:
Examination Hall (37)
Sculpture Garden (37)
Prufrock Preparatory School (41)
1485 Columbia Road (44)
Brick building with scraggly hedges (44)
Building with two round towers in a foggy neighborhood (44)
Versailles Post Office (44)
Rival post office (44)
underground tunnels beneath a lamp post(44)
Underground headquarter beneath an abandoned shack in the northwest region of the Finite Forest (44)
Snicket Dictionary:
Characters:
J (33): Jacques Snicket
L (33)
M (33)
R (33): Vice Chancellor, 9 years old
R (33)
M (33)
L (33): Lemony Snicket
K (33): Kit Snicket
D (33): Daniel Handler?
S (33): did a report on lack of sleep at Prufrock Preparatory School…
Transcriber (33): also J: Old enough to drink brandy.
Dr. Sebald (36)
Neophytes: R, L, K, B, J, E, G (37)
G (38): Geraldine Julien
E: Esme (45)
O: Olaf, who wants to be called “T” (45)
References:
Werewolves in the Rain (36)
The Daily Punctilio (37)
Chapter Four:
Where are the Quagmire triplets now? In the Great Unknown
Who is the tallest person in the photograph? Whoever is hiding in the snowman
Places:
Swarthy Swamp (57)
Characters:
Dr. Gustav Sebald (55): film director
Dr. Montgomery (57): never learned the Sebald code
Cheesemakers: Snicket’s second to last hope that the tale of the Baudelaire orphans would be told to the general public (58)
Sally Sebald (66)
Quagmires? (70)
References:
Zombies in the Snow (57)
Ghosts in the Desert (66)
Goblins in the Garden(66)
Mummies in the Jungle (66)
Vampires in the Retirement Community (66)
Lions in the Mountains (66)
Leeches in the Lake (66)
Werewolves in the Rain (66)
Surgeons in the Theatre (66)
Gorillas in the Fog (66)
Bats in the Train Station (66)
Ants in the Fruit Salad (66)
Hypnotists in the Office (66)
Big Foot in the Mall (66)
Alligators in the Sewer (66)
Realtors in the Cave (66): Snicket had to have had fun making these titles up
The Littlest Elf (66): WHAT?
Chapter Five:
Who is Beatrice? The Baudelaires’ mother (also the woman pictured)
Why was this actress replaced after only three performances? Because Count Olaf took over the play.
Places:
Financial District (75)
Library of Records, Heimlich Hospital (75)
Dr. Montgomery’s library (75)
Finite Forest, Paltryville (75)
Fountain of Victorious Finance (76)
Nancarrow Theatre (77)
Ned H. Rirger Theater (77)
Veritable French Diner (78): 141 Dark Avenue
Vineyard of Fragrant Drapes (84)
Characters:
Inspector Austin (77): character in a play
taxi driver (77): other character in a play
Shirley T. Siniot-Pecér (77): Count Olaf
Linda Rhaldeen (77): wrote The World Is Quiet Here
Al Funcoot (78)
Count Olaf’s theater troupe (78)
Esmé (79): maiden name smudged in program
Eleanora Poe (80): Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Punctilio
Geraldine Julienne (80)
The Duchess (83)
K (83)
Jerome Squalor (88)
References:
The Case of the Vegetarian Murderer (77)
Look Out for That Axe! (77)
Cats (77)
The World Is Quiet Here (77)
The Most Handsome Man in the World (78)
Why, I Believe I’ve Become Even More Handsome! (78)
One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way (78)
Chapter Six:
What is V.F.D.? Volunteer Fire Department
Why did this ship leave three hours ahead of schedule? Because V.F.D. decided circumstances required leaving early.
Places:
Daedelus Dock (93)
Lake Lachrymose (97)
Anxious Clown (97)
Characters:
Man on the Black Rapids Deck (94)
E (94): Esmé on her honeymoon with Jerome?
Sailors: (these are all authors)
Gantos (Jack)
Eager (Edward)
Kerr (Philip)
Whelan (Gloria)
Cleary (Beverly)
Snyder (there are a lot of Snyders. Laurel, perhaps?)
Sones (Sonya)
Seibold (J. otto)
Walsch (Vivian)
Selznick (Brian)
Creech (Sharon)
Danziger (Paula)
Konigsburg (E.L.)
Lowry (Lois)
Scieszka (Jon) (is this a nod to Jacqueline in the NETFLIX series?)
Griffin (I don’t know, there are a number of them)
Snicket (Lemony)
Dahl (Roald)
Woodson (Jacqueline)
Bellairs (John)
Kalman (Maria)
Peck (Richard)
Jacques (96): seems to be in the Gorgronian Grotto
D (97): Daniel Handler?
K (97): Kit
B (97): Beatrice – in the photograph on 105?
H (98): Hector
J (110): Disguised as Captain S.
References:
CHAPTER SEVEN:
Why is there a secret passageway between the Baudelaire mansion and 667 Dark Avenue? There is a V.F.D. headquarters above the penthouse.
What has stained this man’s jacket? black ink
Places:
Lucky Smells Lumbermill
Characters:
Volunteer (117): my guess is Jacques or Lemony
Detective Smith (118)
Detective Jones (118)
Detective Smithjones (118)
Esmé (119)
Al Funcoot (119)
Geraldine Julienne (119)
References:
Personal Notes:
Geraldine Julienne told Esmé that Jerome had bought the penthouse, and Esmé must have known about the secret passageway. I think Esmé started the fire to get even with Beatrice for stealing the sugarbowl. (120)
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Why isn’t Mr. Poe as helpful as he ought to be? Because his sister, Eleanora, prints bad advice in her newspaper, and he goes along with all of it.
Why do these children have nothing better to do than sit outside and stare glumly at the camera? because there are no teachers around to teach them
Places:
Prufrock Preparatory School (129)
Rarely Ridden Road (132)
Characters:
Vice Principal Nero (129)
Mr. and Mrs. Spats (129)
Ms. K (129)
Mr. Remora (129): finally decided to retire
Eleanora Poe (129)
Geraldine Julienne (129)
two replacement orphans (130): came after the Baudelaires. Who are these children???
Mrs. Bass (130): still works at the school, is a bank robber
Al Funcoot (132)
Count Omar (132)
Arthur (134): Mr. Poe, Eleanora’s brother
You know who (139): Maybe a third sibling?
References:
The Daily Punctilio (129)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (131)
Matilda (131)
Ivan Lachrymose, Lake Explorer (131)
Grimm’s Fairy Tales ((131)
Green Mansions (131)
The Coded Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe (131)
I Lost Something at the Movies (131)
Nine Stories ((131)
The History of Lucky Smells Lumbermill (131)
A Series of Unfortunate Events(131)
Charlotte’s Web ((131)
Little House in the Big Woods (131)
CHAPTER NINE:
Why is Lemony Snicket on the run? Everyone thinks he is guilty of Count Olaf’s crimes.
What has happened to the reptiles in Dr. Montgomery’s collection? Count Olaf tricked Bruce into giving him all but one. The owners of the Prospero helped free the Incredibly Deadly Viper.
Places:
Library (146)
Prufrock Preparatory School Library (154)
Valorous Farms Dairy (156)
Characters:
Duchess (144)
Genius (145): Count Olaf?
GG – letter writer (153)
Couple who own the Prospero (155)
References:
The Reptile Room (147)
CHAPTER TEN:
How many associates does Count Olaf have? At least 25, possibly more than 41
What can be hidden in a book? crucial documents
Places:
Characters:
bald man with a very long nose (161)
two women who had bright white powder all over their faces (161)
a man with very long and skinny arms (161)
a person who was extremely fat, and who looked like neither a man nor a woman (161)
an assortment of people the children could not see (161)
Ivan Lachrymose (162)
Ramona Quimby (163)
Esme Squalor
Hal (176)
Babs (176)
References:
The Bad Beginning (161)
Ivan Lachrymose: Lake Explorer (162) by Vincent Francis Doyle
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (163)
I Lost Something at the Movies (165)
The Reptile Room (166)
The Mamba du Mal: A Snake That Will Never Kill Me (167)
The Three Languages (168)
Little House in the Big Woods (169)
Nine Stories – For Esmé, with Love and Squalor (169)
The Bells (170) Edgar Allen Poe
The History of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill (170)
Carmelita’s Autobiography (171)
Charlotte’s Web (172)
Green Mansions (173)
The Littlest Elf (174)
Snicket Dictionary:
Commonplace book: place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read (159)
CHAPTER ELEVEN:
Are the Baudelaire parents really dead? Yes ☹
Why do so many things end in fire? because of cows
Places:
Remains of Quagmire mansion (1820183)
Valorous Farms Dairy (184)
Characters:
Brett Helquist (182)
Detective Smith (184)
Meredith Heuer (185)
CHAPTER TWELVE:
Is there anything a concerned citizen can do if he or she wants to help the Baudelaires? No
If there’s nothing out there, what made that noise? V.F.D. members waiting to kidnap you
Character:
Kit Snicket (192)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
Who is Lemony Snicket? a strange man
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INDEX:
A
abuductions -> last minute escapes -> running for one’s life -> Snicket, Lemony -> ix-211
actors -> dramatic criticism -> Snicket, Lemony -> ix-211
Admiral Disguise (106) -> Disguise Training, Phase 2 -> Disguise Training, Phase 1 -> diguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Alaskan Cow Lizard (148)
Alligators in the Sewer (66)
anagrams -> false names -> disguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Ants in the Fruit Salad (66)
Anxious Clown, The (84, 97, 109)
arson -> untrue allegations -> Daily Punctilio, The -> doubtful evidence -> evidence, doubtful -> web of lies -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
audio tape (20, 134-137)
B
Babs (176)
Bad Beginning, The (131, 160) -> Baudelaire case -> Snicket file -> solemn vows -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Barbequer Disguise (106) -> Disguise Training, Phase 2 -> Disguise Training, Phase 1 -> diguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Bats in the Train Station (66)
Baudelaire case -> Snicket file -> solemn vows -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Baudelaire, Klaus -> Baudelaire orphans -> Baudelaire case -> Baudelaire case -> Snicket file -> solemn vows -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Baudelaire parents -> suspicious fires -> fires, suspicious -> arson -> untrue allegations -> Daily Punctilio, The -> doubtful evidence -> evidence, doubtful -> web of lies -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Baudelaire, Sunny -> Baudelaire orphans -> Baudelaire case -> Baudelaire case -> Snicket file -> solemn vows -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Baudelaire, Violet -> Baudelaire orphans -> Baudelaire case -> Baudelaire case -> Snicket file -> solemn vows -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Beatrice -> identity of Beatrice (211) (burned photograph)
beige coat, medium length (101, 118) -> Disguise Training, Phase 2 -> Disguise Training, Phase 1 -> diguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Bellairs, Sailor (95)
“Bells, The” (168, 171)
Bigfoot in the Mall (66)
Black Guinea Deck (109-11) -> Prospero (5, 7, 93-95, 109-113) -> last minute escapes -> running for one’s life -> Snicket, Lemony -> ix-211
Black Rapids Deck (109-11) -> Prospero (5, 7, 93-95, 109-113) -> last minute escapes -> running for one’s life -> Snicket, Lemony -> ix-211
Blattberg, Julie -> photographs -> doubtful evidence -> evidence, doubtful -> web of lies -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Boat Captain Disguise (106) -> Disguise Training, Phase 2 -> Disguise Training, Phase 1 -> diguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Bride Disguise (106) -> Disguise Training, Phase 2 -> Disguise Training, Phase 1 -> diguises -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Briny Beach (150)
Brooks-Gish Award (77)
Brothers Grimm, The -> Grimm, The Brothers (131) -> doubtful evidence -> evidence, doubtful -> web of lies -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
Bullfighter Disguise (26, 106, 190) -> Duchess of Winnipeg -> Winnipeg, Duchess of -> (xv, 25-30, 83) -> noble causes -> necessary evils -> moral uncertainty -> villainy -> conspiracies -> overall feeling of doom -> doom, overall feeling of -> ix-211
This was all the further I got in an attempt to catalog the entire index.
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Post by Foxy on Oct 7, 2019 8:51:43 GMT -5
The Beatrice Letters:
LS to BB #1
Letter: E
Type of Letter: folded card
Date: 3rd Period
Subject: Lemony is apologizing to Beatrice and asking her to have a root beer float with him.
Geography: East Gate
Foodology: Root beer floats
Personal Notes: If Lemony and Beatrice are still in school, is this before ATWQ?
BB to LS #1
Letter: E
Type of Letter: Crumpled paper
Date: Wednesday
Subject: Beatrice is attempting to contact Lemony in an attempt to find Violet, Klaus, and Sunny.
People:
long-distance swimmer – Aunt Josephine?
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire
Geography:
mountains
cafeterias
13th floor of one of the nine dreariest buildings in the city
a sort of classroom
Personal Notes:
Does Lemony originally think this is Esmé pretending to be the first Beatrice Baudelaire?
Beatrice II must somehow know about the poem “My Silence Knot.”
Is Beatrice II referring to the classroom the V.F.D. students were in?
If Beatrice’s family is missing, who is making her have an early bedtime? Also, this should be a tip-off – this cannot be the children’s mother, because this person has never met Lemony, and Violet, Klaus, and Sunny exist. Beatrice I knew Lemony before she had children.
LS to BB #2
Letter: N
Type of Letter: Paper
Date: Year of the Snake
Subject: Lemony is telling Beatrice how dreadful the class he is in is and how he cannot wait for their upcoming excursion.
People:
R. – the Duchess
tedious, flat-footed instructor
O. – Count Olaf
Kit
Geography:
V.F.D. training school
cave with bats
mountains
cafeteria
ocean
Personal Notes:
Beatrice and R learn how to write coded messages in melodramatic dialogue – does this mean R was writing a coded message in TUA?
Whose automobile would Lemony and Beatrice be hiding in?
It’s really sweet that he is writing her a letter saying he misses her even though he probably sees her every day.
BB to LS #2
Letter: S
Type of Letter: paper
Date: February 28 (Daniel Handler’s birthday)
Subject: Beatrice is continuing to look for Lemony, and he is avoiding her.
People:
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire
Geography:
thirteenth floor of one of the nine dreariest buildings in the city
a lot where something had burned down, but now plants are beginning to grow
hotels
hiding places
rental car offices
synagogues
public libraries
private libraries
restaurants
cafes
all-you-can-eat buffets
movie houses
Personal Notes:
I think the lot where the plants are beginning to grow is either the Royal Gardens, the Baudelaire Mansion, or the Hotel Denouement.
That paperweight is terrifying.
LS to BB #3
Letter: I
Type of Letter: Paper
Date: Scriabin’s Anniversary
Subject: R’s mother has died, and the times ahead will be dangerous
People:
Eleanora Poe
I – Ike Anwhistle
R – the Duchess of Winnipeg – her mother died
J – transferred to Financial Times – Jacques or Josephine?
G – new fashion editor, which means J was fashion editor before? Geraldine
Personal Notes:
The paperweight is a Lachrymose Leech.
Is the park bench referred to from the Royal Gardens, and the one later found in the Hotel D?
He doesn’t want Beatrice to have to wear the butterfly costume again – does he want her show to get cancelled?
Why does their relationship now have to be secret?
BB to LS #3
Letter: K
Type of Letter: Hand-written
Date: 4 p.m.
Subject: Beatrice went to a cave where Snicket was for a while, until he left to get a rootbeer float.
People:
shepherds
Geography:
a small cave
Personal Notes:
Where was the cave?
Beatrice II had R’s ring.
Was the eldest shepherd trying to tell Beatrice II something in Sebald code?
LS to BB #4
Letter: R
Type of Letter: typed on paper
Date: 2 weeks after my previous letter
Subject: Beatrice has been away, performing My Silence Knot, and Snicket eagerly awaits her arrival.
People:
T –
P –
Costar – Betrand
E – Esme
G – Geraldine
L – wants to be called “O”
O – wants to be called “L” – Olivia/Lulu?
Geography:
Tedia
Paltryville
the hills (Is this where Snicket went when Beatrice II was looking for him?)
Personal Notes:
Who is training the bats poorly?
There is a coaster ring on the letter. In ASOUEland, only villains don’t use coasters.
The gravity of how much Snicket loved Beatrice is hitting me.
BB to LS #4
Letter: A
Type of Letter: business letter
Date: Victoria Day Eve
Subject: Beatrice, now apparently in V.F.D. training school, has followed Snicket, and continues to attempt to contact him.
People:
flat-footed, sad man
Geography:
Business Letter Writing Class
library
park
Doldrum Drive
Personal Notes:
“wheezing from the climb” – a smoker would wheeze while climbing a few flights of stairs.
LS to BB #5
Letter: C
Type of Letter: Typed
Date: Dusk
Subject: Snicket answers the thirteen questions Beatrice asked him in her two-hundred page letter she wrote tell him she cannot marry him.
People:
R – the Duchess
Count Olaf
B – Bertrand?
enemies
actors
parents
friends
Beatrice’s father
Edgar Guest
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
M – Montgomery Montgomery
grumpy man who gets hit with a shingle and slips on a banana peel
person who talks to much
blimp operator
person who wears dagger-proof tunics
employee of dry cleaning facility
burglar (woman)
J – Josephine
C – Charles
S – Sir
N – Nero
Y –
Z
A
Guesses at Questions:
Question One:
Question Two: Do you remember the first time we met?
Question Three: Did you start all the fires The Daily Punctilio says you started?
Question Four: Do you remember reading and rereading the poem in the program of My Silence Knot and being puzzled?
Question Five: How many children do you think is the right amount to have?
Question Six: What is a Brae-man?
Question Seven: What is a Baticeer?
Question Eight: What is an anagram?
Question Nine: Do you love me?
Question Ten:
Question Eleven: What might be coded?
Question Twelve: Who are the children in your family?
Question Thirteen:
Personal Notes:
This letter is devastating.
“Are you certain your co-star is one of us?” I think Beatrice broke up with Lemony at least in part because she fell in love with Bertrand, and maybe also because Count Olaf had TDP print lies about him.
The part about her playing soccer and him being the cheerleader makes me laugh.
Beatrice plays the theremin!!!
Beatrice had marmosets
What was misread in the napkin?
Why would a pair of white gloves be slipped into a punch bowl?
BB to LS #5
Letter: T
Type of Letter: Typed
Date: Midway through the Days of Awe
Subject: Beatrice desperately wants Snicket to contact her in order to help her find Violet, Klaus, and Sunny
People:
Violet Baudelaire
Klaus Baudelaire
Sunny Baudelaire
Vice Principal (Nero?)
last instructor – a woman who had to head to the hills to search for orphans
Geography:
City
Mountains
Hills
Personal Notes:
The stories the Baudelaires told Beatrice are different from the stories Snicket wrote
LS to BB #6
Letter: A
Type of Letter: Telegram
Date: Late Summer
Subject: Snicket contacts Beatrice to congratulate her on her pregnancy and warn her of something.
People:
Her husband (Bertrand Baudelaire)
Personal Notes:
Snicket contacting Beatrice again perhaps caused the series of unfortunate events that happened to the Baudelaires.
BB to LS #6
Letter: B
Type of Letter: Folded card
Date: Cocktail Hour
Subject: Beatrice is apologizing to Snicket for embarrassing him in front of his friends.
People:
friends
waiter
Personal Notes:
The card is still intact, so he must have met with her.
My Silence Knot
Bertrand lived in solitude, Snicket’s letter to Beatrice about how good her performance is failed to arrive because the bats took the letter to R instead, and that is when she fell in love with Bertrand, because she didn’t know Snicket was going to propose to her.
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