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Post by Dale Thomas Luck on Jan 6, 2007 7:36:44 GMT -5
There should be a fan book:
Book the Fourteenth: The Excrutiating Epilogue
Based on perhaps Kit's daughters point of view in the part of her life where The Beatrice Letters are placed (the ones from her though, of course).
Long Live 667!
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Post by flameskullkid on Jan 11, 2007 21:20:51 GMT -5
In a July update from AuthorTracker, the book is said to include, "a note passed in class, a startling telegram, a coded sonnet, and a desperate plea for assistance between Snicket and Beatrice." It is also stated that the book "starts long before The Bad Beginning and extends far beyond The End." In fact the two correspondants are not writing back and forth. Lemony Snicket is obviously writing to the first Beatrice (the Baudelaire mother) and this takes place before the Bad Beginning. Actually, before Violet, Klaus and Sunny were even born. The letters from Beatrice, however, are written by the second Beatrice Baudelaire (Kit Snicket's daughter) and take place after "The End". When Lemony Snicket writes he mentions the Root Beer Floats that he and Beatrice share together, how much he loves her and hinted about what happened when he asked her hand in marriage. When Beatrice Baudelaire writes to Lemony Snicket she talks about how far away they are from each other and how they've never met. At the beginning of "The Beatrice Letters" Lemony Snicket mentions that he is eleven years old and the same age as Beatrice. Beatrice wouldn't have been a Baudelaire yet at the beginning of the book because she wasn't yet married to a Baudelaire. Alternatively, Snicket may just be disguised as an 11 year-old and may actually be a young adult. This may be the case as the language he uses in the first letter is not as complex as he writes in the books, yet some of the vocabulary he uses is far too advanced for an 11 year-old. Eg. "Your oral report on the history of the Sonnet." By the end of the book they both would have grown up and Beatrice would have been married to Bertrand Baudelaire, and become a Baudelaire herself. If at the beginning of the book Beatrice is already a Baudelaire then she must be the second Beatrice who was adopted by the Baudelaire orphans. At the end of the book Beatrice mentions that she is ten years old. Lemony Snicket is an adult at the end of the book so that would be another reason to assume that the letters are from another Beatrice.
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Post by Dante on Jan 12, 2007 11:07:34 GMT -5
We already know all this; you don't need to copy-paste huge paragraphs straight from Wikipedia.
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