Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jul 3, 2020 15:28:55 GMT -5
If you've been following my texts over the past two years (and I hope not) you may have noticed that recently I came back to the blackboard, an expression that here means "I swallowed my pride and recognized that Beatricetenhade is much more likely fact died in the fire at her house and I am evaluating the consequences of my new point of view ".
In my previous point of view, I believed that the poem My Silence Knot had evidence that Beatrice planned to fake her own death at some point, to to be able to stay with Lemony. But now I believe that talking about the cloth falling and the one who dies breaks the silence, it makes more sense to believe that Beatrice was saying she would keep a special place in her heart for Lemony, even though she was married to Bertrand She apparently wanted Lemony to continue to maintain a platonic love for her in the same way. Then one day, after Beatrice's death, people would know about the truth. her feelings, perhaps through this poem that she left written. And in fact this is what happened. Beatrice declared her love in something that was immortalized through Lemony's publication of this poem after her death. Lemony did everything to find this poem, and upon realizing its meaning, Lemony cried. I think this is the simplest and canonical explanation.
And talking about simple and canonical explanations, let's talk about the fire at the Baudelaire mansion. If we go back to the time that Daniel Handler was writing book 1, we realized how simple the ASOUE universe was at that time. There was no VFD, and that already simplified everything. Olaf stayed with the children because of a random and unhappy event.: Mr. Poe decided to leave the children with his closest relative geographically because he thought it was best for the children. Olaf had no way of knowing that this would happen. In TBB Olaf wanted take advantage of a random and unfortunate event to earn a lot of money as quickly as possible. The very expression "unfortunate event" already gives the idea of something that happened at random but that instead of bringing good things brought bad things. What was the first such event in the lives of the Baudelaire children (that we have a record)? The answer is simple: it was the fire of the Baudelaire mansion. When Daniel Handler wrote TBB the idea he had in mind was obvious: the fire of the Baudelaire mansion was an event not only very sad, but it was also a random and unplanned event, in other words, the fire at the Baudelaire mansion was a simple accident.
The question is: "as the story became more complex, did Daniel Handler decide to make the accident that he had imagined would become a arson?" My answer to that is "no, he did not". Daniel Handler put on some Red Hearings but everything points to the fire being an accident, and that and This accident was misinterpreted by the authorities as arson and Lemony Snicket was wrongly accused. In TBB the Rare Edition, Lemony informs us that Beatrice and Bertrand needed to resolve an urgent business when they encouraged the children to go to the beach alone. He says that such deals had to be postponed indefinitely due to death. In LSTUA, in chapter 11 we are told that Lemony, while the house was still on fire, was already being accused of having caused that fire. Mr. H was sent there to try to clear Lemony's name from the charge of being an arsonist. In addition, in TBBRE Lemony informs us about what the Baudelaire mansion table looked like, indicating that he was already there. I can only think of two scenarios: Lemony Snicket was inside the house or Lemony Snicket was close to the house when the fire started. Lemony He was spotted by neighbors and was accused of causing the fire. I prefer to believe that Lemony was inside the house because that would conveniently explain who the Snicket File fire survivor is. So Lemony walked away from the house and asked Mr. H to try to clear his name and look for survivors. But you may ask: How did two trained volunteers die in a fire? Unfortunately I know how. My wife experienced what being in a fire is when it starts. It was an electric fire, which caused toxic, suffocating black smoke to fill every room in the house within seconds. She managed to get out of there coughing a lot. Luckily, her house was small. Soon she managed to reach the street coughing a lot. But if the house was a gigantic mansion, my wife would not have survived. The smoke causes the victim to pass out in a few seconds, and no matter how much training you have, you cannot see the exit nor can you breathe fresh air until you can get out, which is a deadly combination. Lemony got out because he was lucky, but the Baudelaires were not so lucky.
In my previous point of view, I believed that the poem My Silence Knot had evidence that Beatrice planned to fake her own death at some point, to to be able to stay with Lemony. But now I believe that talking about the cloth falling and the one who dies breaks the silence, it makes more sense to believe that Beatrice was saying she would keep a special place in her heart for Lemony, even though she was married to Bertrand She apparently wanted Lemony to continue to maintain a platonic love for her in the same way. Then one day, after Beatrice's death, people would know about the truth. her feelings, perhaps through this poem that she left written. And in fact this is what happened. Beatrice declared her love in something that was immortalized through Lemony's publication of this poem after her death. Lemony did everything to find this poem, and upon realizing its meaning, Lemony cried. I think this is the simplest and canonical explanation.
And talking about simple and canonical explanations, let's talk about the fire at the Baudelaire mansion. If we go back to the time that Daniel Handler was writing book 1, we realized how simple the ASOUE universe was at that time. There was no VFD, and that already simplified everything. Olaf stayed with the children because of a random and unhappy event.: Mr. Poe decided to leave the children with his closest relative geographically because he thought it was best for the children. Olaf had no way of knowing that this would happen. In TBB Olaf wanted take advantage of a random and unfortunate event to earn a lot of money as quickly as possible. The very expression "unfortunate event" already gives the idea of something that happened at random but that instead of bringing good things brought bad things. What was the first such event in the lives of the Baudelaire children (that we have a record)? The answer is simple: it was the fire of the Baudelaire mansion. When Daniel Handler wrote TBB the idea he had in mind was obvious: the fire of the Baudelaire mansion was an event not only very sad, but it was also a random and unplanned event, in other words, the fire at the Baudelaire mansion was a simple accident.
The question is: "as the story became more complex, did Daniel Handler decide to make the accident that he had imagined would become a arson?" My answer to that is "no, he did not". Daniel Handler put on some Red Hearings but everything points to the fire being an accident, and that and This accident was misinterpreted by the authorities as arson and Lemony Snicket was wrongly accused. In TBB the Rare Edition, Lemony informs us that Beatrice and Bertrand needed to resolve an urgent business when they encouraged the children to go to the beach alone. He says that such deals had to be postponed indefinitely due to death. In LSTUA, in chapter 11 we are told that Lemony, while the house was still on fire, was already being accused of having caused that fire. Mr. H was sent there to try to clear Lemony's name from the charge of being an arsonist. In addition, in TBBRE Lemony informs us about what the Baudelaire mansion table looked like, indicating that he was already there. I can only think of two scenarios: Lemony Snicket was inside the house or Lemony Snicket was close to the house when the fire started. Lemony He was spotted by neighbors and was accused of causing the fire. I prefer to believe that Lemony was inside the house because that would conveniently explain who the Snicket File fire survivor is. So Lemony walked away from the house and asked Mr. H to try to clear his name and look for survivors. But you may ask: How did two trained volunteers die in a fire? Unfortunately I know how. My wife experienced what being in a fire is when it starts. It was an electric fire, which caused toxic, suffocating black smoke to fill every room in the house within seconds. She managed to get out of there coughing a lot. Luckily, her house was small. Soon she managed to reach the street coughing a lot. But if the house was a gigantic mansion, my wife would not have survived. The smoke causes the victim to pass out in a few seconds, and no matter how much training you have, you cannot see the exit nor can you breathe fresh air until you can get out, which is a deadly combination. Lemony got out because he was lucky, but the Baudelaires were not so lucky.
