Duncan's words on Lemony

[ChilledCucumber]

I personally think that Kit Snicket could be the Baud's mother. In THH they talk about Pg. 13 of the Snicket File, and there's a picture of The Baud's parents, Lemony and Jacques Skicket. It would make sense if the Baudelaire's mom was Lemony and Jacques' sister becuase it had a picture of the three siblings and then "Kit's" husband... it's just a theory, but then in TSS Lemony is writing a note to his sister, Kit. It's a recipe for a salad. 11 pages later, Sunny Baudelaire is making food for Olaf and his crew and she has a flashback to when her mom was cooking, the weird thing is, is that in both those times they're using the exact same ingrediants.
This all would make sense if it wasn't for the last page of TGG, where Kit Snicket is driving their taxi, because you think that the kid's would have recognized their own mother. However, a quote from that page is:
""Who are you?" Violet asked, finnaly. The woman blinked, and then gave the children her slight smile once more as if she had expected the Baudelaires to answer the question themselves. "I'm Kit Snicket," she said, and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time"

[CassieJo]

I do still like this theory, and it seems like it could still work. It would be just like our beloved author to leave something so big as a cliffhanger, starting the next book with comments on what's happened before returning to the taxi with the children asking their mother questions.
I think they would have know her name, at least by overhearing it at some point, but it would fit for she and her husband to go by aliases, or just their initials. If they went by their initials, the children could have believed their mother's name to be Kay. Snicket could easily be her maiden name, which she could have reverted to after the death of her husband.

[ChilledCucumber]

The Baud's did say something about remembering hearing the name 'Snicket' before, they could have overheard the name from their parents before, my theory is probably wrong though, I think that the kid's would have known their Mother's own maiden name, Violet was 13 when they left the mansion...

[Dante]

Actually, it's probably Lemony who the children have heard of.

Paraphrase: "Jacques Snicket," Violet said. "That name sounds familiar."

"It should," said Duncan. "Jacques Snicket is the brother of a man who-"

Implying that Jacques's brother, Lemony, did something which the Baudelaires should know all about.

Plus the list of names near the end of TGG where it talks about Widdershins being wrong names the Snicket siblings and the Baudelaire parents separately.

[Ennui]

I (and, as it happens, Dante) think that Lemony Snicket is accusedof burning down the Quagmire and Baudelaire mansions. The question is, do the Quagmires themselves believe this accusation?

Was Duncan about to say "a man who was accused of burning down our houses" or "a man who probably burnt down our houses?"

I'm shamelessly going off topic. We are now discussing the implication of Duncan's words. No one wants to read yet another K is the mother theory.

[PJ]

Nope. Kit=baudmom is dead. Deader than disko.
And it aint coming back.
Beatrice, on the other hand, might still.
I can only hope.

[Dante]

Gawaine said:

I (and, as it happens, Dante) think that Lemony Snicket is accusedof burning down the Quagmire and Baudelaire mansions. The question is, do the Quagmires themselves believe this accusation?

Was Duncan about to say "a man who was accused of burning down our houses" or "a man who probably burnt down our houses?"

I'm shamelessly going off topic. We are now discussing the implication of Duncan's words. No one wants to read yet another K is the mother theory.

I lean towards it being "a man who burnt down [something]". I think that Duncan and Isadora may still be in the dark about whether Lemony did what the Punctilio said he did, although I'm not quite sure why I think that.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

PJ said:

Nope. Kit=baudmom is dead. Deader than disko.
And it aint coming back.
Beatrice, on the other hand, might still.
I can only hope.

Indeed. People need to read:
"Inside was a woman the baudelaires had never seen before."

They've seen their mother before.

[PJ]

But why would Duncan be so intent on trying to save Jacques if he was the brother of their parent's murderer?
I think they know he's nice, and in VFD.
Praps they read somehting in Prufrock's libraries....

[Dante]

The said:

But why would Duncan be so intent on trying to save Jacques if he was the brother of their parent's murderer?
I think they know he's nice, and in VFD.
Praps they read somehting in Prufrock's libraries....

Just because one person is terrible, it doesn't mean their whole family is tainted. And the Snickets are famous for their noble deeds.

And I rather fancy that they have been reading something in Prufrock's libraries, and having long conversations with the oddly-dressed librarian.

[PJ]

Those libraries are another of the many loose ends that Handler has built in. I wish I knew more about the information that was contained in them. And the information that the bauds should have found in the plains in TGG. I wonder if Book the thirteenth will be just clearing up theories, or will Handler create and extra book for that?
The Scary Sequel
Or The Confusing Conclusion.

[Dante]

Lucafont said:

Those libraries are another of the many loose ends that Handler has built in. I wish I knew more about the information that was contained in them. And the information that the bauds should have found in the plains in TGG. I wonder if Book the thirteenth will be just clearing up theories, or will Handler create and extra book for that?
The Scary Sequel
Or The Confusing Conclusion.

He might do another U.A.-like tie-in to clear stuff like that up. We'd certainly like him too.

And yes, what could have been in Chapter Thirty-Nine of Mushroom Minutiae? How do Visitable Fungal Ditches tie in?

[PJ]

Anything else? I was gonna make a list, but I can't think of anything...
-Esme/Lemony/Beatrice triangle....
-Hector and VFD
-Ike and VFD
-Bears in Mortmain Mountains who walked away
meh

[Ennui]

A glaring gap-Fiona's father.

[Dante]

Lucafont said:

-Bears in Mortmain Mountains who walked away

Bears in the Mortmain Mountains? What have I forgotten?

And yes, Ennui, I too will be very disappointed if I don't get full closure on all the Fiona, Fernald and Widdershins issues. Actually, wait, I can just call it the Queequeg issue. That's much shorter.