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Post by Vacuum Pot on Aug 29, 2005 14:37:13 GMT -5
How about "list all negative adjectives in the English language that begin with one of fourteen letters"?
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Post by Brian on Aug 29, 2005 15:49:34 GMT -5
Good point. Never mind.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Aug 29, 2005 22:07:40 GMT -5
How about "list all negative adjectives in the English language that begin with one of fourteen letters"? That's not going to work... The plan I have is to wait for the end of task 3. It sucks but it'll work I hope. |
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Post by Brian on Aug 29, 2005 22:16:22 GMT -5
I'm extremely confident that task 3 will be the cover. I mean, we have a page, an illustration; what's left? The only couple of others I can think of are the dedication page, the letter to the editor in the back (not likely), the ex libris page, or the back cover.
It seems like it will be either the front or back cover.
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Post by BSam on Aug 30, 2005 0:25:05 GMT -5
I'm extremely confident that task 3 will be the cover. I mean, we have a page, an illustration; what's left? The only couple of others I can think of are the dedication page, the letter to the editor in the back (not likely), the ex libris page, or the back cover. Or, you know, the Title.  |
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Post by Dante on Aug 30, 2005 1:45:43 GMT -5
The cover would also include the title, though... Unless they decided to drag it out even longer. But it could just be the title on its own. However, since the slice-format is almost certainly going to apply to all three mysteries, then I'm putting my money on Mystery the Third being the cover. Mainly because it'd be more interesting. We could probably figure out the title after not even half the slices.
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Post by The World Is Quiet Here on Aug 30, 2005 5:45:22 GMT -5
Going on the VV FF DD how bout "Fateful Finale" and "Dastardly Denouement"
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Post by Antenora on Aug 30, 2005 6:55:24 GMT -5
Either of those would work for book 13, but not for book 12 as it isn't the "finale" or "end of the series".
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Post by Brian on Aug 30, 2005 7:11:37 GMT -5
Dastardly Denouement could work for Book the Twelfth, unless you go by the theory I go by, which is that the Baudelaires will only arrive at Hotel D at the end of the book after some very intense errands with Kit.
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Post by Vacuum Pot on Aug 30, 2005 7:22:47 GMT -5
Well, they arrive at Hotel Denouement well before page 130, so you have a very doubtful theory.
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Post by Dante on Aug 30, 2005 8:50:33 GMT -5
And Handler said a while back that Book the Twelfth is set at a hotel, so unless they've gone to a completely different hotel for no good reason...
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Post by Brian on Aug 30, 2005 13:18:49 GMT -5
Well, they arrive at Hotel Denouement well before page 130, so you have a very doubtful theory. Fair enough, but variations exist. For example, the first half of the book is at Prufrock Prep or someplace. And then the VFD meeting takes place in the second half, where we get plot fillers and where the Baudelaires, as new volunteers, are given an assignment, such as defeating Olaf. This will then take place in Book the Thirteenth. It's possible. |
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Post by s on Aug 30, 2005 16:05:01 GMT -5
Yes, I strongly suspect that at least one word of the title will start with "T". [shadow=green,left,300][glow=green,2,300]Of course at least one letter has to start with "T". The title always starts with "THE".[/glow][/shadow] You're a quick one. Just to clear something up - denouement does not mean end. You know the plot diagrams they always made you draw in middle school (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)? The Denouement is the Falling Action, not the resolution. Therefore, Book the Twelfth fits the bill perfectly. |
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Post by Brian on Aug 30, 2005 16:51:59 GMT -5
I don't know about that. Oxford American Dictionaries states that denouement is: "the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and mattes are explained or ~~resolved.~~ the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear: "I waited by the eighteenth green to see the denouement." Some synonyms are finale, ending, culmination, ~~resolution~~, outcome, result.
Therefore, denouement may also be able to refer to the "falling action," but denouement is definitely the resolution, at least.
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Post by s on Aug 30, 2005 17:07:15 GMT -5
Well, perhaps in general it means that, but in a literary sense (and tomorrow I'll try and give you a real definition...) I'm almost positive it refers to the following:  |
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