OFFICIAL BOOK TWELVE DICUSSION THREAD.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

Thank you! I'm finishg up summarizing it in my cpb. I never before paid attention to the fact that Dewey's actually pointing to the sky when he says "Kit" right before he dies. I'm on chapter 11 about to finish up.

[Sugary Snicket]

My friend is wierd. She thinks that the next book will take place in the Finite Forest, just because it's capatalized in one of Sir's sentances. Makes a whole lotta sense, doesn't it? *sarchasm*

[Dante]

That is a strange assumption to make, given that it's capitalised whenever anyone mentions it on account of it being a place name. Then again, people thought that TPP would be called The Lousy Lane for similar reasons. Which reminds me, I never did get around to gloating about that.

Edit: Unless your friend meant that it was typed in full caps? But I'm sure I'd have noticed if that had happened anywhere.

[Sugary Snicket]

No. She highlited it in her copy. I told her it was just because it was the name of a place, and it was appropriate to capatalize it like that, just like you'd capatalize Lake Lachrymose. And, anyway, they're out on the sea. How would they get to the Finite Forest anyway?

[Dante]

Sir said in TPP that the Finite Forest was running out of trees, so it's probably not even much of a forest anymore. I guess that makes it more realistic, it actually running out of trees (and justifies its name).

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

Its name is indeed justified.
Oh and here's something I kept forgetting to put in here:
Frank and Ernest could both be interpreted as adjectives although the latter would be spelled 'earnest'. Is dewey an actual word? Because if it is that would complete the trio. I just thought I'd put that out there. (Curiously enough frank and earnest mean somewhat the same thing if I'm not mistaken)

[Antenora]

Frank and earnest both mean "honest" and "dependable", yes. And I"ve heard the word "dewey-eyed" to mean either weepy or naive and inexperienced, I think.

[Ligeia]

As a first name, Dewey is a derivative of David, which means "beloved." But it seems most likely that he was named for Melvil Dewey, the librarian that invented the Dewey Decimal System.

It makes a bit of sense that his names aren't connected to his siblings, since he was sort of the hidden sibling. Quigley (who was also hidden, or at least assumed to be dead) has a name that's not connected to his siblings either. And also an alliterative name, though that probably has nothing to do with it.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

But it does, Quigley Quagmire and Dewey Denouement are both alliterations and both unrelated to their siblings names, I'd never noticed that before...

[Alice Wilde]

Also, with that terrible sounding -ey ending.

The Baudelaires knew about Frank/Ernest and Duncan/Isadora before they knew of the their respective siblings. And you can't think of one without the other, whereas with the extra siblings, you think of them separately.

So, it's fitting that their names break the pattern.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

So it is, they seem to have the exact same pattern except Dewey did die and quigley didn't. *sigh*

[beatriceblake]

What do people think about this review of TPP?

www.utahvalleymonitor.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/04/43e4d0dc33a54

[Antenora]

The author sounds rather paranoid, really, though his interpretation of the political/social commentary aspects of TPP is interesting. I don't think the moral ambiguity in the series is a bad thing at all, myself.

(The political part of the article begins with: My complaint with Handler is that he has to go and get political in a very sneaky way. And not just "Rock the Vote" political. We're talking extreme-sedition political.)

[s]

"What kind of person writes a comedy about incest? Maybe the same kind of person that idolizes Charles Baudelaire." - Is that supposed to be an insult?

And wtf?

"To put it in its simplest form, Handler has drawn a nifty metaphor for 9/11 and has told the entire story from the perspective of the terrorists, i.e. the orphans."

Talk about drawing strange connections. I'm hoping this person isn't serious.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

This person does look a bit paranoid. I hate how he tries to force this on people like it's absolute truth, I mean he doesn't even admit that he might be errored in these wild perceptions...