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Post by Hanae on Apr 24, 2006 20:20:55 GMT -5
Evileye please put this in the questions, complaints, and suggestions thread. Thank You.
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Post by Antenora on Apr 24, 2006 20:45:51 GMT -5
Christin, check the date a post was made before you reply to it--Evileye posted that several months ago, and his question was already answered by someone in Heimlich Hospital.
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Post by Hanae on May 1, 2006 7:48:42 GMT -5
Oh, so sorry.
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Post by dewey0denoument on Jul 30, 2006 17:19:06 GMT -5
that no life lives forever that dead men rise up never that even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea line 1= dewey died line 2= he will not come back to life lines3 ans 4= dewey is resting in peace with his life work  |
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Post by Antenora on Jul 30, 2006 17:40:49 GMT -5
Actually, those lines weren't used to refer to Dewey specifically(especially since they came up in TSS, before we even knew of the Denouements), but were quoted as a general connection to the deaths surrounding the Baudelaires. The last two lines don't really have much to do with someone resting in peace, either; in context, they were used to foreshadow TGG's ocean setting and how everyone was heading toward the last safe place. (Also, it wasn't really necessary to post just about exactly the same thing in two threads.)
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Post by descartes on Jul 30, 2006 19:01:08 GMT -5
I think those words were used to tell the readers which of the parents is alive and which is dead, if it had an specific purpose.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Aug 13, 2006 21:35:09 GMT -5
I point out that quote frequently. I think it may have been used for what Calamitas said and also to quash crazy theories that "OMGOSH JACQUES SURVIVED WE NEVER SAW HIS BODY IT WAS UNDER A SHEET, HE LIVES"- no.
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Post by Semesther, the Dolphin Vampire on Oct 29, 2006 13:24:12 GMT -5
He's probably dead(unfortunitly)...I think he just wanted to be close to his library when he passed on I agree And he is dead, is there anybody else thinks he is not dead? |
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Post by cyrus on Jun 19, 2007 3:49:59 GMT -5
Dewey's behaviour has always been a mystery for me. Why has he gone out of the hotel instead of waiting for medical help? And why hasn't he got the Baudlaires' help while sinking? I think this theory can be true at some points...
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Post by Spymaster E on Jun 19, 2007 14:47:34 GMT -5
Wow, I never thought this discussion would ever be brought up again, especially since Dante thinks the idea of Dewey being alive is ridiculous.
I thought Dewey might be alive up until August last year, and then decided that he was probably dead. There's no way you survive having a harpoon in your chest and being underwater so long.
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Post by thistledown on Jun 19, 2007 17:06:07 GMT -5
I agree with you, James. He´s dead. Sad, too, because I had hoped he was alive for a while. Even until the publication of TE, but after I finished that, I knew he was a goner.
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Post by cyrus on Jun 20, 2007 7:46:36 GMT -5
Well, I aalso think he couldn't save HIMSELF, but someone might help him (for example, that mysterious woman in the diving suit). Maybe he knew it, I can't find any other explanation for his dying actions.
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Post by Antenora on Jun 20, 2007 8:31:14 GMT -5
Well, I aalso think he couldn't save HIMSELF, but someone might help him (for example, that mysterious woman in the diving suit). Maybe he knew it, I can't find any other explanation for his dying actions. He was well aware that he was going to die, and realized that there was probably nothing anyone could do to help him-- as did the Baudelaires. So he decided to die nobly. Whatever the case, he couldn't have survived. |
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Post by cyrus on Jun 20, 2007 10:22:56 GMT -5
If Dewey still had the ability to walk and speak, I suppose his injury was not deadly. So the Baudlaires could call first-aid or something.
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Post by Dante on Jun 20, 2007 10:33:08 GMT -5
They tried to keep him from falling in, what else could they do? I'm pretty sure having a sturdy harpoon fired at high speed through one's chest would be sufficient to shred one's internal organs and knock one back sufficiently far for one to stumble down a flight of steps behind oneself and then into a dangerously-near pond; one would have a few seconds before the massive internal failure killed one outright, but only enough to choke out one last monosyllabic word. The woman in the diving suit was almost certainly already in the taxi by then, anyway, as there were only a few seconds when the taxi was out of sight and sufficiently out of earshot of the Baudelaires, and it's not enough for a woman in a diving suit to climb out of a pond and drag a massively-damaged body to the back seat of a taxi that's already occupied by an accordion, hide in the boot, and for the taxi to start driving away. Sorry, but I think Dewey's death was fairly straightforward.
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