Post by Lady Michelina on Sept 26, 2003 15:23:33 GMT -5
Klaus said:
Heres my commanplace notebook on The Slippery Slope.... I remember yesturday I was about to write down some more things but then I had to leave and forgot them.... So...The Slippery Slope
(notes from commanplace notebooks)
To my kind editor,
I apologize for the watery quality of this letter, but I'm afraid the ink I am using has become dilisted, a word which here means "soaked with salt water from the ocean and from the author's own tears." It is difficult to conduct my investigation on the somaged subermarine where the Baudelaire lived during this episode of their lives, and I can only hope that the rest of this letter will not (illegible words).
The Grim Gr (smuged out completely)
words that are "gr" that fit:
graduation
grammer
granary
grand (insert word here- duke, aunt, child, dad, daughter, duchess, durchey, dame)
Grand Jury
grand piano
granlite
grape
grape fruit
grapevine
grapple
grass
grasshopper
grate
grave
grave stone
grave yard
gravy
grease
greenhouse
greenroom
gremlin
grill
grizzly bear
ground
group
grove
(most likely graveyard)
Looks like there is a captile A at the end of the smugedness, but am not to sure. This letter does not look complete. Will we get to see the rest of this letter later? Maybe it will be released as a Slippery Slope like clue...
Two who disappear and where never found again turns out to be the two-powdered-face-women who found hearts and turned away from Count Olaf. The initals V.F.D. seem to stand for everything the V.F.D. use, which can become confusing, but we find that the true initals stand for Volunteer Fire Department.
Two sinister villians appear. A man without hair but a beard. A woman with hair but not a beard. Which is what Lemony refers to them as because he is to frightened to say there real names. Even Olaf seems nervous and edgy around them. Who could they be? Noticed how when Violet, Klaus, Quigly were in disguise and told the villians they were volunteers the woman with hair but no beard voice momentarily was as deep as usual. Perhaps she and he are in disguise or she was frightened/nervous. But once again who are they? They work for the VFD, or did. But they were on Olaf's side of the schism. Interesting how they werent mentioned in LSUA. LSUA was published before TCC- perhaps if we looked at some of the illustrations in TCC there might be a bald man without hair but a beard, and a woman with hair but no beard, or maybe they are a new thought charectar and had no previous origin from the previous books.
Bruce, the leader of snow scouts is the same person from the herpetological society who took away Uncle Monty's collection; later we find that count olaf persuaded him to give the reptiles to him.
Before the schism, the VFD united had many animals that helped them, after the schism,the good VFD people had carrier crows on there side (Village of Fowl Devotees) and trained reptiles (though Olaf interrupts saying "Not anymore, all but one-" he is cut off, perhaps that one is the incredibly deadly viper) but bad VFD people have lions (once very noble beasts used to sniff fires) and eagles. Sinister people to use eagles to get down the self-sustaining house hector built. (perhaps the good vfd had crickets on there side too- in lsua, R in her letter to Lemony notes that she could not hear the crickets. Perhaps is referringg to secret messages in crickets give as found in back of LSUA).
Spats, Winnipeg, and Kornbluth fortunes (and many more) Esme talks about having. C.M. Kornbluth the mechanical engineer at VFD HQ is most likely Charlie from TMM, must have had children who are now in the snow scouts. Duchess of Winnipeg from LSUA (mentioned many times) was refered to as R, must have children now in snow scouts. Currently all snow scouts are in bad vfd'ers hands.
Lemony talks about how at a picnic the Baudelaire mom gave Lemony a recipe for chilled salad. On page 29 of LSUA there is a picture of the second annual codebreaking picnic. Perhaps this is the same one where beatrice gives lemony the recipe?
It is now completely confirmed that Ike (Dr. Isaac Anwhistle) was a VFD person. Could Josephine Anwspitle be also? What was Ike a doctor of?
A brave volunteer threw the sugar bowl out of the window so it would not be destroyed in the fire that consumed the VFD VFD HQ. Went down tributary of the Stricken Stream. Note that the Baudelaire and Quigley are taking two seperate journeys down Striken Stream tributary. Perhaps the Baudelaires or Quigley will find the sugar bowl and unlock its mystery's. The fire was not that long before the Baudelaires and Quigley went down the tributaries.
The back picture in The Slippery Slope does not have anything extremely interesting or obvious. The only small thing is 5 mushrooms with some polka dots. Cannot see other side, uncountable amount. Submarine and mushroom?
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea
Poem found Verbal Fride Dialouge.
Find rhyming dictionary and what rymes with "zucchini"
Last Safe Place=Hotel Denouement. Sinister people and Olaf and his henchmen plan on burning down the hotel.
Note in letter to Lemony's sister, he says that her suggestion that hiding anything important and small in a tea set was very handy. Sunny found a tea set when cooking breakfast.
Wow those were all great theories and anologies!
How long did it take you to write all that? Now I have a question. When Esmé was "modeling" her red snowsuit, there was a big black 'B' on the back, and the eye insignia. Can the "B" possibly stand for Beatrice? Or Baudelaire even?
