TheAsh
Formidable Foreman
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Post by TheAsh on Aug 19, 2021 15:37:14 GMT -5
What an incredibly annoying, yet informative, answer.
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Post by carmelita0cheryl on Aug 19, 2021 16:41:29 GMT -5
Thank you for this fascinating interview Resemblance But hell, the orbituary answer scares me
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Aug 19, 2021 17:25:17 GMT -5
It's been a while since the last 667/DH interview! Thank you again, Semblance.
An enjoyable read, even if most of his answers are characteristically pithy. I liked hearing his current reading recommendations, as always, as well as his answer to MisterM's (really confusingly phrased) question about Esmé.
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Post by twigz on Aug 19, 2021 18:40:29 GMT -5
This is absolutely amazing, thank you for facilitating this!
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Post by Mr. Sharpe on Aug 19, 2021 19:03:41 GMT -5
I was smiling throughout the entirety of reading these answers. Thank you so much for your work in putting this together!
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Post by ryantrimble457 on Aug 19, 2021 20:27:28 GMT -5
Thank you so much for doing this! I wish we had gotten a more concrete answer to my question--such as, what is ON those index cards or discarded chapters--but this is still wonderful!
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Aug 19, 2021 20:42:06 GMT -5
Daniel Handler knows this forum is dying and I love it.
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Post by R. on Aug 20, 2021 0:25:01 GMT -5
His answer to my question ohmygod!
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Post by B. on Aug 20, 2021 4:01:07 GMT -5
B.: Before you were a full-time writer what job(s) did you do, and how did you handle others telling you a writer wasn't a realistic career (assuming they did)? >I had various jobs of the office-drudgery sort, and I told myself that in retrospect this period of my life would seem charming and bohemian, and that all of my catty, doubting friends would be stuck in office drudgery forever. Astonishingly, this turned out to be true. This answer bought me a lot of joy and comfort
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Post by Hermes on Aug 20, 2021 4:54:22 GMT -5
Daniel Handler knows this forum is dying and I love it. What am I missing? The question implies that 667 is dying. DH doesn't say anything to confirm that; he just says that the word 'arbitrary' would be an appropriate memorial.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 20, 2021 5:58:14 GMT -5
That was really amazing!! Thank you so much for this. For years I've been waiting for some answers, and I'm delighted to hear that Daniel Handler didn't actually write the shocking 13 secrets. And, I'm very happy to hear that there was a plan that he stuck to when he wrote LSTUA. I think this is as much information as I could get about some details of the work. That settles the question of when Lemony was kidnapped. Dante was right after all.
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Post by Hermes on Aug 20, 2021 7:05:43 GMT -5
How does it solve the question about the kidnapping?
I'm a bit puzzled about the singificance of 13SS: it does not seem important to me whether DH actually wrote them, since whoever did write them clearly had access to secret information only made clear in later books - most obviously 'LS's niece is an orphan'.
His claim that he did not exactly volunteer to be Lemony's representative is interesting; I wonder if that could be taken to confirm my 'apprentice' theory.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 20, 2021 8:07:21 GMT -5
One of the secrets claims that Lemony was kidnapped as a baby. But LSTUA is explicitly told that Lemony was no longer a baby when he was kidnapped. This is a contradiction. Trying to reconcile the two truths would lead to the conclusion that Lemony was wrong. But, probably who was wrong was the person who wrote the secrets. "Baby" and "Child" can easily be synonymous, depending on the context. But not after LSTUA was published. Whoever wrote the secrets should have written that Lemony Snicket was kidnapped when he was a small child. He probably had that in mind (and maybe even wrote it down, but one reviewer corrected it for not understanding the importance of it). Evidently, someone only had information about the books (including books not yet published at the time) in order to have written the 13 secrets.
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Post by Hermes on Aug 20, 2021 9:27:14 GMT -5
Well, Lemony is, by the testimony of his friend Daniel, an unreliable narrator, so he might have got the details wrong about an event which, by any reckoning, happened when he was very young. But I'd agree that the list-compiler is not likely to know more than he did, so is probably reasoning as you say.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 20, 2021 10:16:31 GMT -5
I'm also much more excited to read PFB now. As we suspected, PFB took a while to be published exclusively because of its content. What did Daniel Handler put in there that could shock today's worried parents?
And I was a little flattered that he said that my question about books for young children... I mean... He hadn't really thought about it yet and started to think. I feel that somehow my question affected the author I admire... And about the question I asked about the asoue effect, even though he didn't answer, I'm also flattered that he read it several times trying to understand... Well , I hope I didn't bug him... Although that would be a poetic revenge.
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