Post by RockSunner on Oct 26, 2006 23:01:32 GMT -5
Trying to put the new pieces together, I discovered a puzzling new time gap.
1) In TBL, Lemony was surprised there was a new person named Beatrice Baudelaire when he got her letters.
2) Therefore, he didn't know what the baby on the island was named.
3) If he had gotten to the island in his researches, he would certainly have found the name (since they made new entries in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" book there).
4) Therefore Lemony didn't get to the island, and didn't have enough information to write books 13 and 14 until after he got the new Beatrice letters and met Beatrice II herself.
5) Beatrice II was ten years old when she wrote to Lemony. That's ten years after the events in TPP.
6) Lemony wrote TSS at a time when he knew Kit to be alive (or hoped that she might be), because he included a message to her.
This makes a huge time gap between when Lemony wrote the 11th and 13th books. In TGG/RE he seems to despair that he will ever complete the last book ("assuming I live to complete [Book the 13th]"). He may have lost track of the Baudelaires entirely after they went to sea.
Did Lemony write up to TPP very close to the time of the events and then hit a blank wall in his research for ten years? Or is even TSS written later, and the message to Kit about finding a room at the Hotel Denouement without ugly curtains actually a coded plea for his missing sister to communicate with him?
1) In TBL, Lemony was surprised there was a new person named Beatrice Baudelaire when he got her letters.
2) Therefore, he didn't know what the baby on the island was named.
3) If he had gotten to the island in his researches, he would certainly have found the name (since they made new entries in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" book there).
4) Therefore Lemony didn't get to the island, and didn't have enough information to write books 13 and 14 until after he got the new Beatrice letters and met Beatrice II herself.
5) Beatrice II was ten years old when she wrote to Lemony. That's ten years after the events in TPP.
6) Lemony wrote TSS at a time when he knew Kit to be alive (or hoped that she might be), because he included a message to her.
This makes a huge time gap between when Lemony wrote the 11th and 13th books. In TGG/RE he seems to despair that he will ever complete the last book ("assuming I live to complete [Book the 13th]"). He may have lost track of the Baudelaires entirely after they went to sea.
Did Lemony write up to TPP very close to the time of the events and then hit a blank wall in his research for ten years? Or is even TSS written later, and the message to Kit about finding a room at the Hotel Denouement without ugly curtains actually a coded plea for his missing sister to communicate with him?
