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Post by Dante on Nov 9, 2005 2:36:09 GMT -5
The number of debates we had over whether that person was Mr. Poe before the book was even released was fairly astonishing. I still say that it's clearly not Poe - Poe has glasses, and he doesn't have a moustache. The triptych's meaning is clearly - at least, to me, although apparently not to others - given in the book. Others can make up additional stories to fit with it if they like, but they should at least make sense with the evidence.
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Post by Grace on Nov 9, 2005 15:19:37 GMT -5
I just assumed it was Poe because of the title, and--someone could very well take off their glasses. (This reminds of Mystery Men, has anyone seen it, with the glasses bit?) Anyway, it's somebody wearing the Operagoer Disguise, which Poe seems to always be wearing. (This should go in the Mr. Poe thread.)
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Post by JAMtastically Jigam on Nov 14, 2005 16:21:41 GMT -5
[/spoiler] No, I remember now. It's entitled, What Happened to Mr. Poe. Someone drilled through the ropes, it's hanging by a thread, and Mr. Poe goes in the elevator, and boom--Dead. He shouldn't had so many donuts.  OH! I GOT IT! Chap. 7-Housekeeper/Volunteer/Villain cuts rope in Elevator 6. During the fire-The Bauds, JS, and Olaf go up using another Elevator, 1-5, or 7-?. Between then, no one has used elevator 6. During the fire, when people are trying to escape, Poe uses elevator 6, and since it's hanging by a thread, he dies. Thus, it's entitled: What Happened to Mr. Poe. *bows*[/quote] We had that other evidence on TNN.com that said that, when the elevator was first demonstrated at a world fair, the inventor cut the wire, but the elevator didn't plunge to doom. Based on that, I don't think the elevator falling would be the cause of death. Perhaps getting stuck in the elevator as the hotel burns, but that's all. I've been wondering about this, though. It's another one of the unsolved mysteries of TPP. I don't think he would have included it for no reason, especially having the pictures AND the Ch. 7 description, but I don't see how it works into the whole story. It seems like it should be more than "demonstrating how continuity works", but I can't figure out what it would be. |
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Post by Skeleton Key on Nov 14, 2005 17:34:19 GMT -5
I remember another annoying song! The Snow Scout Pledge! What could be more obnoxious than someone claming to be Xylophone? I added it to my list.
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Post by Flaneur on Nov 22, 2005 19:06:00 GMT -5
Ah, I remember my idea that it was Mr. Poe's brother. Happy days of desperate rationalization in the face of the unknown!
I think, sadly, that we may never find out what was going on with this. tPP really opened up my eyes to the truth that while everything in this series is relevant to something, it's not all relevant to the plot immediately at hand. Especially forceful on the point that things will have to be left by the wayside was the beginning of chapter seven. So many peculiar things! It is a whole world in these books, and so many stories in it - each story had its story, and each story's story was unfathomable in the Baudelaire orphans' short journey, and many of the stories' stories are unfathomable to me.
In short, I mean to say that I am finally finding myself realizing that not all details are inperatively connected. I do not think we will ever find out about the story of the story in the triptych, or Arthur and Eleanora Poe's "You-Know-Who," or Arthur's top hat, or the doily-searching family or the four siblings at the beach or so many other things. V.F.D. is a large organization, and there are many mysteries in it. The depths of the goings-on of these books are unfathomable.
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