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Post by Grace on Oct 30, 2005 8:09:58 GMT -5
What is it with the Terrible Triptych? When I first read TPP, I thought that each picture would pertain to something that a Baudelaire child saw. (Chs. 4, 5, 6) But it wasn't.
Now, in a book I read called Chasing Vermeer, which B. Helquist illustrated, the pictures gave you clues about the story. Could this possibly have that too?
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Post by champ103 on Oct 30, 2005 8:11:26 GMT -5
In chapter seven, it was mentioned that a woman was drilling a hole to see the elevator ropes, but it was never said in detail, which made them pretty useless.
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Post by Dante on Oct 30, 2005 11:16:40 GMT -5
Yep. It looks like Helquist just took a sequence that could be split up into three pictures, then muddled them up the first time around to show that chronological order isn't the only order that things can be arranged in.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Oct 30, 2005 11:37:25 GMT -5
I think it's a story within the story: This woman is distraught, so she drills a hole, cuts the rope, dresses as a man for some reason, and goes into the elevator and kills herself.  Just a thought. |
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Post by Antenora on Oct 30, 2005 11:56:04 GMT -5
That seems like an overly-elaborate way to commit suicide, though.
The pictures represent what was going on that the Baudelaires didn't see, I guess, as sort of a parallel to their story. They observed three different things but didn't see the whole truth, and the three pictures reflect that as well as the chronology thing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2005 15:22:50 GMT -5
I remember LS saying something about all three things.
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Post by Forlorn on Oct 30, 2005 20:10:05 GMT -5
That seems like an overly-elaborate way to commit suicide, though. The pictures represent what was going on that the Baudelaires didn't see, I guess, as sort of a parallel to their story. They observed three different things but didn't see the whole truth, and the three pictures reflect that as well as the chronology thing. that actually sounds reasonable if not the actual explanation. "Three spies but none saw the whole truth!" |
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Post by lauren on Oct 30, 2005 20:24:14 GMT -5
Purhaps these insignificant events which took place, might be connected to a mystery of some sort, like the sugar bowl mystery or the survivor mystery...
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Oct 31, 2005 16:13:26 GMT -5
I dunno! |
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Post by Nicky on Oct 31, 2005 16:17:52 GMT -5
That seems like an overly-elaborate way to commit suicide, though. The pictures represent what was going on that the Baudelaires didn't see, I guess, as sort of a parallel to their story. They observed three different things but didn't see the whole truth, and the three pictures reflect that as well as the chronology thing. Makes sense... |
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Post by jman on Nov 1, 2005 6:51:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Nov 1, 2005 16:05:37 GMT -5
Yay! a comment of mine ACTUALLY makes sense!
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Post by jman on Nov 2, 2005 17:34:43 GMT -5
Good on ya!  |
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Post by jayde on Nov 3, 2005 17:02:26 GMT -5
"Three spies but none saw the whole truth!" Actually, I think they're both the same person...in chapter 7, I think, a housekeeper removes a disguise (which would be the top hat and moustache and whatnot), drills a hole in the elevator, and then takes a look at the ropes. |
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Post by Dante on Nov 3, 2005 17:10:01 GMT -5
On the sixth story, one of the housekeepers removed a disguise, and drilled a hole behind an ornamental vase in order to examine the cables that held one of the elevators in place, while listening to the faint sound of a very annoying song coming from a room just above her.
This is what I was referring to, and it's obvious that the pictures depict this event. They were muddled up in the first Not A Chapter to demonstrate that sequential order isn't the only order things can be looked at.
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