Potato Man
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Post by Potato Man on Jul 26, 2006 11:38:43 GMT -5
If this is posted somewhere else just delete it but here it is!
HarperCollins has posted the letter that will appear on the back cover of "The End"!
Dear Reader,
You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.
This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.
It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
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Post by Dante on Jul 26, 2006 11:47:43 GMT -5
I beat you to it here, but I'm fine with people having another thread for it as well, like the cover did - it keeps the numerous things mentioned together in a rather organisable fashion. Here's my former speculation on it: - We already knew about the herd of sheep and the fearsome storm, so there's nothing to be achieved there.
- The enormous birdcage - probably not the birdcage apparently on the cover, which is not enormous - the first thing I can imagine that might be is perhaps some kind of trap Quigley has built for the eagles, and it would be a fitting one, though I don't know how he'd construct it; possibly otherwise it is some sort of parrot-keeping cage for the pirates.
- The suspicious beverage is unknowable, but I should say that somebody is trying to poison somebody else.
- The truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents is interesting - we already pretty much know about their murder of Olaf's parents, but is there more to it, yet worse to come? Are there further crimes? Were perhaps the Baudelaire parents secretly the worst villains of the lot, or particularly dreadful traitors (the sinister duo said that the parents were troublesome, but their wording can be interpreted as meaning that they were troublesome to the other side of V.F.D., or perhaps they harmed both sides of the organisation, or something)? There's clearly a lot to speculate about here.
Also, I really like all the punning on the title, which is rather like the Dear Reader letter of TPP. Oh, and note also how "at last I am finished" ties in to the final Shocking Secret. |
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Post by Brownie on Jul 26, 2006 11:57:41 GMT -5
Oh, and note also how "at last I am finished" ties in to the final Shocking Secret. That is rather interesting.... By he is finished I could never really tell what was going on... |
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Post by Potato Man on Jul 26, 2006 11:59:17 GMT -5
Could the Baudelaire parents possibly be on Olaf's side?
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Post by Antenora on Jul 26, 2006 12:18:00 GMT -5
Could the Baudelaire parents possibly be on Olaf's side? If they are, or ever were, they're clearly traitors-- killing Olaf's parents and all. I expect that the secret about them will fit in with all of the moral ambiguity in VFD; perhaps they've taken both sides at various times, and basically committed a lot of villainy in the name of "noble causes". |
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Post by Potato Man on Jul 26, 2006 12:29:35 GMT -5
I just can't wait till it comes out. I'm getting it at midnight like I did PP and GG.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 26, 2006 16:47:46 GMT -5
Could the Baudelaire parents possibly be on Olaf's side? That's what I'm thinking... I didn't know you could get them at midnight.... What store? |
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Post by Phoebonica on Jul 27, 2006 9:27:42 GMT -5
Maybe the parents will return as ghosts, if we take "truly haunting" literally.  I think it probably is some big act of villainy they've committed, either the murder of Olaf's parents or something else. They could be traitors to VFD as well, there's no real reason to assume that everyone who's an enemy of the volunteers is working together. |
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Post by Brownie on Jul 27, 2006 9:39:21 GMT -5
Maybe Olaf is Noble and doing all these things for noble causes...
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Post by TheManager on Jul 27, 2006 12:22:13 GMT -5
I doubt it.
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Post by Akbar Le Grey on Jul 27, 2006 12:30:16 GMT -5
OMFGWTF WOW.
Did we get this before anyone else?
Okay, maybe Mamma and Papa Baudelaire are still alive, and hiding or some such? One idea I've always had is that they could've survived the fire, and then disguised themselves as the sinister duo, though I don't know what purpose that would serve.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 27, 2006 14:54:02 GMT -5
Well... the story IS pretty one sided...
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 27, 2006 14:59:31 GMT -5
My new idea, posted on the thread to which Dante linked above, is this:
The Baud parents killed Olaf's parents in order to steal their family's fortune.
Opinions?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 16:42:03 GMT -5
how come i don't understand the first paragraph of the end of the end of the beginning of the end of the rope?
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Post by Eye Of The Count on Jul 27, 2006 17:59:27 GMT -5
If this is posted somewhere else just delete it but here it is! HarperCollins has posted the letter that will appear on the back cover of "The End"! Dear Reader,
You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.
This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.
It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you.
With all due respect,
Lemony SnicketI think that the suspicious drink is a Root Beer Float. In the Beatrice Letters it tells you some stuff about The End. Also in the book it says: What was Count Olaf like as a boy? What will happen in Book The 13th? What are the ingredients in a really good root beer float? Maybe that is what the suspicious drink is. |
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