Sugar bowl contains a will?

[TheAsh]

We know that Lemony has a triptych of Beatrice. And we know that he feels his life is like a dramatic play, at the mercy of some playwright. And he keeps referencing opera. Googling Triptych and Opera results in this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_Schicchi Considering what happened to Ferdinand, is it possible that the sugar bowl contains a will of some sort? 


(This is not my official sugar bowl theory, merely something I found while googling.)

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

This would not match Esmé's description in TPP that the SB content was something that had to be sought out by volunteers on a mission that cost many of their lives.

[TheAsh]

Feb 9, 2020 17:13:03 GMT -5 Optimism is my Phil-osophy said:

This would not match Esmé's description in TPP that the SB content was something that had to be sought out by volunteers on a mission that cost many of their lives.

I never interperted Esme's description that way. I thought the lives were lost searching for the sugar bowl themselves, like we see with Olivia in the books (or the ones who had to be killed that figured out the secret) and that fits very well with a will.

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

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 be, 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.

Please notice that Esme talks about that thing (which would become the content of the SB) and then the safe and beautiful container (the SB itself). These are different things in the phrases used by Esme.