Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Dec 20, 2019 12:54:58 GMT -5
Kit said Olaf having the sugar bowl was almost as bad as Olaf having the deadly fungus MM. Dewey went further, and said in TPP chapter 8:
"Our enemies capturing the sugar bowl would be troubling their capture of the Medusoid Mycelium."
What could be in such a small container containing something so dangerous that could compare to a weapon of mass destruction like the MM?
Evidently it was not the cure of the fungus MM. Olaf didn't even know that this fungus still existed, according to TGG. There are some theories that states that the sugar bowl was empty. But this theory, besides being frustrating, leaves an important point without explanation. Assuming the sugar bowl was empty right now, the right question needs to be, "What did these people believe was inside so valuable and dangerous?" This combination is very important. This is not just something valuable, which Olaf and his supporters wanted for greed. This is valuable and dangerous, almost as disastrous as the MM fungus if it falls into the hands of villainous people. Considering this combination, note this phrase spoken by Dewey:
"Olaf won't dare unleash the Medusoid Mycelium unless he gets his hands on the sugar bowl, and he'll never find it." (TPP, chapter 8)
Then he said directly to Olaf:
"You won't dare unleash the Medusoid Mycelium," Dewey said. "Not while I have the sugar bowl."
At first this seems to be just a phrase meaning something like "if I die the secret dies with me." But it could also mean that Olaf was in a situation of assured mutual destruction. This is more in keeping with the obvious comparison that TGG, TPP and TE give MM to weapons of mass destruction. (Of course, I may be forcing a little here.) But let's stop talking about possibilities and let's talk about textual evidence. Let's look at Esme's words in TPP chapter 9:
Is that so? "Esmé Squalor said." So someone has really been cataloging everything that has happened between us? "
"It's been my life's work," Dewey said. "Eventually, every crucial secret ends up in my catalog."
"So you know all about the sugar bowl," Esmé said, "and what's inside. You know how important that thing was, and how many lives were lost in the quest to find it. You know how difficult it was to find a container that could hold it safely, securely, and attractively. You know what it means to the Baudelaires and what it means to the Snickets. " She took a sandaled step closer to Dewey, and stretched out a silver fingernail-the one shaped like an S-until it was almost poking him in the eye. "And you know," she said in a terrible voice, "that it is mine."
According to Esme, the sugar bowl was hers. She seems to have been responsible for choosing "a container that could hold it safely, securely, and attractively". She knew there was something in there at some point. But most interesting is that she said about what was inside the SB. She said, "You know how important that thing was." Using the past tense of the verbe ser, Esme indicates that in the past what was inside the sugar bowl was already important. She also said, "You know how many lives were in the quest to find it." Esme wasn't talking about SB yet. She was talking about the content of SB, which was something people died trying to find. The verb "find" to imply that this valuable and dangerous item was not something that by VFD, but something that needed to be studied by someone from VFD, after some people from VFD many people were shunned on a quest to find it, and In this mission many people died. This description implies that the item within the SB is an ancient artifact. An ancient artifact capable of giving deadly powers to its possessors. I really like the idea that this object is a whistle capable of controlling a fierce and deadly marine animal. That would have been a reused idea in ATWQ. Of course, it would not be the statuette itself, but a whistle capable of controlling a fierce aquatic animal, similar to a statuette. This makes perfect sense to me, along with all the other evidence I have already presented.
"Our enemies capturing the sugar bowl would be troubling their capture of the Medusoid Mycelium."
What could be in such a small container containing something so dangerous that could compare to a weapon of mass destruction like the MM?
Evidently it was not the cure of the fungus MM. Olaf didn't even know that this fungus still existed, according to TGG. There are some theories that states that the sugar bowl was empty. But this theory, besides being frustrating, leaves an important point without explanation. Assuming the sugar bowl was empty right now, the right question needs to be, "What did these people believe was inside so valuable and dangerous?" This combination is very important. This is not just something valuable, which Olaf and his supporters wanted for greed. This is valuable and dangerous, almost as disastrous as the MM fungus if it falls into the hands of villainous people. Considering this combination, note this phrase spoken by Dewey:
"Olaf won't dare unleash the Medusoid Mycelium unless he gets his hands on the sugar bowl, and he'll never find it." (TPP, chapter 8)
Then he said directly to Olaf:
"You won't dare unleash the Medusoid Mycelium," Dewey said. "Not while I have the sugar bowl."
At first this seems to be just a phrase meaning something like "if I die the secret dies with me." But it could also mean that Olaf was in a situation of assured mutual destruction. This is more in keeping with the obvious comparison that TGG, TPP and TE give MM to weapons of mass destruction. (Of course, I may be forcing a little here.) But let's stop talking about possibilities and let's talk about textual evidence. Let's look at Esme's words in TPP chapter 9:
Is that so? "Esmé Squalor said." So someone has really been cataloging everything that has happened between us? "
"It's been my life's work," Dewey said. "Eventually, every crucial secret ends up in my catalog."
"So you know all about the sugar bowl," Esmé said, "and what's inside. You know how important that thing was, and how many lives were lost in the quest to find it. You know how difficult it was to find a container that could hold it safely, securely, and attractively. You know what it means to the Baudelaires and what it means to the Snickets. " She took a sandaled step closer to Dewey, and stretched out a silver fingernail-the one shaped like an S-until it was almost poking him in the eye. "And you know," she said in a terrible voice, "that it is mine."
According to Esme, the sugar bowl was hers. She seems to have been responsible for choosing "a container that could hold it safely, securely, and attractively". She knew there was something in there at some point. But most interesting is that she said about what was inside the SB. She said, "You know how important that thing was." Using the past tense of the verbe ser, Esme indicates that in the past what was inside the sugar bowl was already important. She also said, "You know how many lives were in the quest to find it." Esme wasn't talking about SB yet. She was talking about the content of SB, which was something people died trying to find. The verb "find" to imply that this valuable and dangerous item was not something that by VFD, but something that needed to be studied by someone from VFD, after some people from VFD many people were shunned on a quest to find it, and In this mission many people died. This description implies that the item within the SB is an ancient artifact. An ancient artifact capable of giving deadly powers to its possessors. I really like the idea that this object is a whistle capable of controlling a fierce and deadly marine animal. That would have been a reused idea in ATWQ. Of course, it would not be the statuette itself, but a whistle capable of controlling a fierce aquatic animal, similar to a statuette. This makes perfect sense to me, along with all the other evidence I have already presented.
