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Post by MsSnicket on Mar 29, 2004 22:12:30 GMT -5
This is a bit of a lame way to start a thread, but I'm the most impatient person ever, and I'm not going to go looking for the direct quote.
In TSS, there's a part where Violet, Klaus, and Quigley are sitting in the wreckage of the V.F.D. headquarters, and Violet says something like, "It's as if we were all being trained for this."
Anyways, don't you think that maybe before all their parents died, the Baudelaires and Quagmires might have been being trained up to be in V.F.D. one day?
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Post by MsSnicket on Mar 29, 2004 23:15:58 GMT -5
Ha! I conquered my patience and found it!!!
The Slippery Slope, pages 278-279:
"I don't think your sister wrote that particular poem," Violet said. "This code was probably invented before your sister was born."
"That's what I thought," Klaus said, "but it made me wonder who taught Isadora about couplets. They might have been a volunteer."
"She had a poetry teacher when we were young," Quigley said, "but I never met him. I always had a cartography class."
"And your mapmaking skills," Violet said, "led us to the headquarters."
"And your inventing skills," Klaus said, "allowed you to climb up to Mount Fraught."
"And your researching skills are helping us now," Violet said. "It's as if we were being trained for all this, and we didn't even know it."
"I never thought of learning about maps as training," Quigley said, "I just liked it."
Hmmm....it's something to think about anyways. But I have a feeling there's more to this than the little snippet it has in the book.
(Oh, it's sad when you end up replying to your own post....)
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Post by Efogoto on Mar 30, 2004 2:32:56 GMT -5
(Oh, it's sad when you end up replying to your own post....) You only gave us sixty three minutes to beat you to the answer. Hardly fair to mope about being ignored that quickly. ;D It has become a popular theory that not only were they trained early, but that they've been trained throughout the series. You can almost bet Lemony won't answer that question since he seems to avoid answering most other questions about VFD. |
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Post by MsMourning on Apr 5, 2004 18:23:44 GMT -5
Your right!!! When I was reading the book I noticed that but later I didn't really think about it. Lemony Snicket probably placed a lot of different clues throughout the series.
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Post by sunsun on Apr 5, 2004 20:03:02 GMT -5
yeah he has. And it is too much coincidence that the Quagmires and Baudelaires are trained at what they are trained at- ex. C.M. Kornbluth-invernting--- the various V.F.D poems they found----Lemony Snicket's map of the city(Cartography) and all of the cooking references, as well as the six laboratories in the- in what was the V.F.D. headquarters.
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Post by Gerlox on May 4, 2004 13:17:19 GMT -5
woah thats an awesome theory. Maybeeeee their parents are alive and planned all this out as their training. I dunno its just a guess but i think it mite happen  |
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on May 4, 2004 16:49:49 GMT -5
Just a little note here, but Quigley just said her teacher was a man. A him. Well, it might have been Jacques, cause he never met him while he was teaching her, and even though he knew Jacques recently, he never saw the teacher, and didn't get to see if it WAS Jacques. So...that's kinda an odd idea.
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on May 4, 2004 16:52:31 GMT -5
Wait, erase that totally out of your brain  . In the LSUA, if Jacques really WAS the teacher, he would know that ink stain couplet was hers, because he said he found a couplet that said(I don't have the book right now, I'm guessing) something like, the coffee stain was really ink. Someone tell me what it said. Please ;D |
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Post by MsSnicket on May 4, 2004 22:27:30 GMT -5
Before I start, we don't know exactly who Isadora's poetry teacher was...right? If we do, forget about everything else. In the books, it seems like everyone and everything are connected to the schism. So that would include Aunt Josephine and her deceased husband, Ike. Ike was a grammar freak, so possibly he taught Isadora all about poetry. I dunno, it just popped up in my brain and I thought I'd put it out there. |
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Post by Gerlox on May 5, 2004 9:24:43 GMT -5
hm that could have happened.. and everyone thinks that Josephene is comming back in the 11th book, she mite reconise Isadora?
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on May 6, 2004 19:02:23 GMT -5
She might...I'm still thinking on that one  . Well, Ike COULD have taught Isadora...but the funny thing is, is that Quigley knew it was a man, and yes, we still do not know who her poetry teacher was, these are all just suggestions. ;D |
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Post by Gerlox on May 7, 2004 13:17:25 GMT -5
i know but anyof these could happen
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Post by Sora on May 8, 2004 1:17:37 GMT -5
woah thats an awesome theory. Maybeeeee their parents are alive and planned all this out as their training. I dunno its just a guess but i think it mite happen Um... I think that the Baudelaire parents would be evil to have their child do all they have done in this series as training. Rule out that theroy |
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Post by Gerlox on May 9, 2004 15:55:44 GMT -5
yeah but maybe. MAYBE. count olaf is evil, and all the deaths were fake and planned out so that the baudelaire would be super VFD'ers.. hmm? and they wouls step in and stop everything REALLY bad before it could happen?
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Post by Gerlox on May 10, 2004 14:02:36 GMT -5
whoops i meant olaf isnt evil  typo |
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. In the LSUA, if Jacques really WAS the teacher, he would know that ink stain couplet was hers, because he said he found a couplet that said(I don't have the book right now, I'm guessing) something like, the coffee stain was really ink. Someone tell me what it said. Please ;D
. Well, Ike COULD have taught Isadora...but the funny thing is, is that Quigley knew it was a man, and yes, we still do not know who her poetry teacher was, these are all just suggestions. ;D
typo