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Darkwolven_Warrior rolled 10 100-sided dice:
26, 89, 20, 81, 3, 77, 81, 8, 1, 22
Total: 408 (10-1000)
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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:04 am
Does anyone have information on the "extra stuff" in the special edition of The Bad Beginning?
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:38 am
It's a series of footnotes, introduced by Lemony Snicket. He mentions what happens in future books and what may happen in the thirteenth. He also hints at the possibility of the eyes all over Olaf's home being spy cameras, like the microscope lenses and mirrors at the Baudelaire house. There are interviews with people who attended The Marvelous Marriage as well as one with the person who sold the Baudelaires the olives they used in their puttanesca. (O_o)
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:58 pm
I think it also hints that Mr. Poe was hiding something in his hat when he first met up with the Baudelaires at Briney Beach. I think it said it was a camera, but I'm not sure. I think any of the footnotes should be taken seriously too. Prior to TGG being published, it metioned Violet returning to Briney Beach and picking up a stone. She does this in TGG. Very cool. Hey, we should compile all the hints from the rare edition onto a thread and try to figure out some of the events that could take place in 13. *Runs off to get copy of book* (By run off, I mean get to it after I'm done my homework stressed Stupid me and stupid procrastination)
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:19 pm
I don't remember if it specified, but I thought it said something about papers.
Did you notice the statement about people saying that during the moment in the play when Olaf turns off the lights and Violet crosses the stage, people said that she looked very much like a woman who is no longer alive? Could the wording in this suggest that their mother was the one to die in the fire and their father survived?
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:43 pm
WHERE can this special edition be purchased? Because I am not finding it on Amazon.
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Darkwolven_Warrior generated a random number between
1 and 10000 ...
8287!
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:26 am
Doesn't anyone have it who is willing to share the wealth? *begging* gonk gonk
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:14 am
I found my copy at Barnes & Noble....in 2004, I think....
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:24 am
Kipluck WHERE can this special edition be purchased? Because I am not finding it on Amazon. it's there n_n I had a hard time making sure i'd found the right one, but it's labled as the collectors edition, and if you click on the "search inside" you'll see a green cover that should have the word "Rare" underneath the title. I just ordered it for 7$
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 1:26 pm
Dante the Viking Did you notice the statement about people saying that during the moment in the play when Olaf turns off the lights and Violet crosses the stage, people said that she looked very much like a woman who is no longer alive? Could the wording in this suggest that their mother was the one to die in the fire and their father survived? Oooo, good call. I know a bunch of people who say that's an allusion to Beatrice and therefore the similarity 'proves' she's their mother. Again, red herring, I think. I mean, lot's of people are 'no longer alive' not just Beatrice. I deduce from this that Mrs. Baudelaire is definately dead. I don't know if that means that Mr. Baudelaire is alive though. I always assumed that the 'survivor of the fire' was Quigley...
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:21 pm
Well, I always assumed that Beatrice had died before the events in the book, so the first person I thought of was their mother. I don't think it necessarily means their father is definitely alive, just that their mother is definitely dead.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:27 am
Darkwolven_Warrior Doesn't anyone have it who is willing to share the wealth? *begging* gonk gonk ....how about now?
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:31 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:37 pm
Kipluck Dans des terrains cendreux, calcines, sans verdure, Comme je me plaignais un jour a la nature, Et que de ma pensee, en vaguant au hasard, J'aiguisais lentement sur mon coeur le poignard, Je vis en plein midi descendre sur ma tete Un nuage funebre et gros d'une tempete, Qui portait un troupeau de demons vicieux, Semblables a des nains cruels et curieux . . . -C Baudelaire I don't speak that language!!! gonk
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Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:33 pm
Darkwolven_Warrior Kipluck Dans des terrains cendreux, calcines, sans verdure, Comme je me plaignais un jour a la nature, Et que de ma pensee, en vaguant au hasard, J'aiguisais lentement sur mon coeur le poignard, Je vis en plein midi descendre sur ma tete Un nuage funebre et gros d'une tempete, Qui portait un troupeau de demons vicieux, Semblables a des nains cruels et curieux . . . -C Baudelaire I don't speak that language!!! gonk Nor do I, but Baudelaire did!
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:50 pm
Rough Translation (my French is ok, but this is poetry, so bear with me)
In the cinder-filled grounds, burnt to ashes, without greenery,
As I moaned one plain day,
And that of my thoughts, distantly random,
I sharpened slowly a dagger on my heart,
In full afternoon, I live, and coming down upon my head
A doleful cloud, heavy from a storm,
That carried a flock of vicious demons
Resembling cruel and curious dwarves...
This poem is by Charles Baudelaire, he's a famous French poet, so I'm sure if you searched it, you could find the real meaning of the poem. My interpretation: This guy lost something dear to him (in fire?), he got depressed and killed himself, then he went to Hell (suicide is often considered a mortal sin). But, like I said, I could have translated this all wrong, so don't quote me.
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