Post by TheAsh on Feb 6, 2020 3:44:37 GMT -5
Ishmael says that he was a teacher of a girl who presumably is the Anwhistle mother and Josephine's Mother-in-Law:
“This was many years ago, in the city. There were always a few children in my chemistry classes who had the same gleam in their eyes that you Baudelaires have. Those students always turned in the most interesting assignments.” He sighed, and sat down on one of the reading chairs in the center of the room. “They also always gave me the most trouble. I remember one child in particular, who had scraggly dark hair and just one eyebrow.”
“Count Olaf,” Violet said.
Ishmael frowned, and blinked at the eldest Baudelaire. “No,” he said. “This was a little girl. She had one eyebrow and, thanks to an accident in her grandfather’s laboratory, only one ear. She was an orphan, and she lived with her siblings in a house owned by a terrible woman, a violent drunkard who was famous for having killed a man in her youth with nothing but her bare hands and a very ripe cantaloupe. The cantaloupe was grown on a farm that is no longer in operation, the Lucky Smells Melon Farm, which was owned by—
And
“But plenty of people have those characteristics,” Aunt Josephine said. “Why, my mother-in-law had not only one eyebrow, but also only one ear."
There probably aren't two people like that in the Averse, so presumably it's the same person. Now, if Ishmael was a teacher of Josephine's mother-in-law, that means he is way older than Gregor and Isaac Anwhistle, and presumably that whole generation. Count Olaf was in Lemony's generation and in his class in school. Yet we see:
Is this fire meant to be like all other VFD fires (I.e., meant to leave people orphans) and Ishmael is saying that he remembers the fire, and is thus a chronological error on DH's behalf, or is this a different sort of fire?
“This was many years ago, in the city. There were always a few children in my chemistry classes who had the same gleam in their eyes that you Baudelaires have. Those students always turned in the most interesting assignments.” He sighed, and sat down on one of the reading chairs in the center of the room. “They also always gave me the most trouble. I remember one child in particular, who had scraggly dark hair and just one eyebrow.”
“Count Olaf,” Violet said.
Ishmael frowned, and blinked at the eldest Baudelaire. “No,” he said. “This was a little girl. She had one eyebrow and, thanks to an accident in her grandfather’s laboratory, only one ear. She was an orphan, and she lived with her siblings in a house owned by a terrible woman, a violent drunkard who was famous for having killed a man in her youth with nothing but her bare hands and a very ripe cantaloupe. The cantaloupe was grown on a farm that is no longer in operation, the Lucky Smells Melon Farm, which was owned by—
And
“But plenty of people have those characteristics,” Aunt Josephine said. “Why, my mother-in-law had not only one eyebrow, but also only one ear."
There probably aren't two people like that in the Averse, so presumably it's the same person. Now, if Ishmael was a teacher of Josephine's mother-in-law, that means he is way older than Gregor and Isaac Anwhistle, and presumably that whole generation. Count Olaf was in Lemony's generation and in his class in school. Yet we see:
“I had Omeros keep this weapon handy,” Ishmael said, “instead of tossing it in the arboretum, because I thought you might escape from that cage, Count Olaf, just as I escaped from the cage you put me in when you set fire to my home.”
“I didn’t set that fire,” Count Olaf said, his eyes shining bright.
“I didn’t set that fire,” Count Olaf said, his eyes shining bright.
