Post by lillian on Apr 8, 2010 10:42:25 GMT -5
I probably won't post again, or for a while at least...
But I wanted to give my take on this.
Firstly, there was a re-release special edition of The Bad Beginning that had some author remarks in it that said something along the lines of "Violent would visit Briny Beach a third time in her life", which leads me to believe she lived.
Also, the fact Sunny was on the radio should be a sure indication that they lived.
And, if I recall correctly, he said something along the lines of "I could continue to tell you more about their lives, but that would take an additional thirteen books" which obviously means they didn't just get into a submarine and die... even Lemony Snicket couldn't drag that out for thirteen books.
And my whole philosophy on The Great Unknown I derive from the book "Looking For Alaska" by John Green. Also, you probably shouldn't read this if you have any intention of reading the book because it has spoilers, and it's a very good book.
"Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there’s no sugar-coating it: she deserved better friends.
When she potatoed up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And I could have done that, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe it in spite of having lost her."
Well I see The Great Unknown much like The Great Perhaps, where it's Life. Undiluted existence. And death is in that existence, at the end, as it always will be... but that's not what The Great Unknown IS.
Olaf feared The Great Unknown, and many adults fear it too, for it symbolizes taking everything you can from life and living every moment to the fullest, which Olaf didn't do. He lived off spite and revenge and hatred for so long.
Anyway, the children in the books, as most proper children do, wish to see the world for what it is and move forward into the world at full speed, willing to take what comes toward them. And that's why Snicket stopped his story. He left the children at that point because they weren't children anymore and he didn't need to follow them to ensure they would be okay.
But hey, it's all interpretive...
As for physically, I haven't a clue what The Great Unknown is. I would prefer to deal with the symbolism.
-Lillian
But I wanted to give my take on this.
Firstly, there was a re-release special edition of The Bad Beginning that had some author remarks in it that said something along the lines of "Violent would visit Briny Beach a third time in her life", which leads me to believe she lived.
Also, the fact Sunny was on the radio should be a sure indication that they lived.
And, if I recall correctly, he said something along the lines of "I could continue to tell you more about their lives, but that would take an additional thirteen books" which obviously means they didn't just get into a submarine and die... even Lemony Snicket couldn't drag that out for thirteen books.
And my whole philosophy on The Great Unknown I derive from the book "Looking For Alaska" by John Green. Also, you probably shouldn't read this if you have any intention of reading the book because it has spoilers, and it's a very good book.
"Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there’s no sugar-coating it: she deserved better friends.
When she potatoed up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And I could have done that, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe it in spite of having lost her."
Well I see The Great Unknown much like The Great Perhaps, where it's Life. Undiluted existence. And death is in that existence, at the end, as it always will be... but that's not what The Great Unknown IS.
Olaf feared The Great Unknown, and many adults fear it too, for it symbolizes taking everything you can from life and living every moment to the fullest, which Olaf didn't do. He lived off spite and revenge and hatred for so long.
Anyway, the children in the books, as most proper children do, wish to see the world for what it is and move forward into the world at full speed, willing to take what comes toward them. And that's why Snicket stopped his story. He left the children at that point because they weren't children anymore and he didn't need to follow them to ensure they would be okay.
But hey, it's all interpretive...
As for physically, I haven't a clue what The Great Unknown is. I would prefer to deal with the symbolism.
-Lillian
