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Post by tricky on Oct 4, 2020 20:21:12 GMT -5
It seems like the Baudelaire children are the most plausible custodians of the library, but due to the island and separation from Beatrice Jr etc it's hard to know where their fate lies post book 13. I think it's safe to assume that there are other (select few) VFD members who know of Dewey's existence, so my theory is that following the news of the Hotel Denouement burning down, a volunteer came check and take over the position (alike Mme Lulu). Since we have heard of revolving positions before in the Carnivorous Carnival, i'd hope that there were still enough remaining active volunteers to make sure the library stayed afloat.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 4, 2020 21:42:18 GMT -5
I think it is understood that the passage to the underwater library was secret. So I think Dewey, Kit and Lemony were the few who knew how to get into the library. So, I think the library was empty for many years until Lemony went there again at the time of the publication of TPP. When he went to look for evidence that would clear him of the accusation that he was an arsonist.
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Post by Dante on Oct 5, 2020 3:07:01 GMT -5
I would agree that the catalogue did not subsequently have a true guardian; it was so secret that it was forgotten and abandoned - but, for all that, safe. TPP p. 266 effectively confirms this, by describing the location of the underwater catalogue in the burnt ruins of the Hotel Denouement, which "has remained secret and safe all these years"; it also suggests that Lemony, or somebody, might indeed still have been depositing information there, as he goes on to say that it contains an account of the trial at the Hotel Denouement.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 5, 2020 5:16:04 GMT -5
Yes this is true. The story of what happened to the Baudelaires that day is recorded in the hotel's own library. So somehow, someone was inserting information there. I don't think it was Lemony. The way Lemony talks about Hotel D in TSS seems to indicate that he never went there again. And the way he describes Hotel D in TPP at the time he was writing Book 12, it seems to indicate that he needed to use a secret code for him to be admitted to the hotel. (throw stones in the pond).
I would like to point out that this scenario makes more sense for me if we consider that the hotel was destroyed, rebuilt and destroyed again at the time of writing of book 12 of ASOUE. Or that the hotel was not so destroyed in the fire caused by the Baudelaires and Olaf, and that it was definitely destroyed only years later, at the time of writing of book 12.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 5, 2020 6:06:02 GMT -5
I don't think it can be the Baudelaires, since L knows the library is still in operation, but does not know if the B's are still alive.
I remain convinced it was Hal. There is a strong clue ('terrible curry') that Hal survived and became Lemony's informant; and we know that he is at least in principle qualfied to run a library of records.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 5, 2020 9:30:35 GMT -5
I don't think it can be the Baudelaires, since L knows the library is still in operation, but does not know if the B's are still alive. I remain convinced it was Hal. There is a strong clue ('terrible curry') that Hal survived and became Lemony's informant; and we know that he is at least in principle qualfied to run a library of records. I think that's the most sensible answer after all. I fully agree with that. And it makes perfect sense. And that was probably why Lemony realized it was so important to research whether Hal was a spy or not. It's good to think that Hal survived. And since Hal became allied with Kit, it is possible to deduce that she had informed him about how to enter the library. |
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Post by Glittery666 on Dec 31, 2021 22:37:29 GMT -5
I like the idea of it being Hal, especially considering that Lemony had to research whether he was a spy and the terrible curry thing(could someone remind me where that's from). Especially in light of his relationship with Kit, being Lemony's informant makes even more sense.
This theory actually kind of makes me miss Hermes, Hal inheriting the sub-library was one of two of my theories that made Hermes joke about me being his doppelgänger.
Also, I just realized this is probably going to be my last post of 2021.
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