Post by Quigley Quagmire on Aug 21, 2007 17:35:43 GMT -5
On the subject of Beatrice:
Though there are many books in this world, they all seem to have a few things in common. For instance, they all have words. They all have a cover, and, in the beginning of most every book, there is a dedication.
This dedication is merely a place where an author can put someone�s name and say that they wrote the book "for him or her" (which they may have). Also, usually, when one author writes many books, he dedicates each of them to a different person.
Snicket�s dedications, however, seem to be written a bit differently. Each book has been dedicated to one person, known to us solely as Beatrice.
Throughout Snicket�s books he has shown many signs of affection for Beatrice, and has mentioned her, not only in his dedications, but also at random points in his books.
Here is a list of his dedications to Beatrice and other information on her:
Beatrice in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The Bad Beginning
to Beatrice--
Darling, dearest, dead.
(From the Rare Edition of the Bad Beginning)
p. 23 ...the stuffed head of a lion, which was nailed to the wall.
For more information about the abuse of lions, interested parties might turn to Book the Ninth. Professional lions are often named after their trainers, but I have been unable to determine if the lion on Count Olaf's wall was Beatrice or Bertrand.
"...In my room I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a blurry photograph taken a very long time ago, of a woman those name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me."
The Reptile Room
for Beatrice--
My love for you shall live forever. you, however, did not.
The Wide Window
for Beatrice--
I would much prefer it if you were alive and well
"I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling toward a small village. I have seen a a woman I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain nest."
The Miserable Mill
to Beatrice
My love flew like a butterfly
Until death swooped down like a bat
as the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:
"That's the end of that"
"For instance, I once loved a woman, who for various reasons could not marry me... she chose instead to write a two-hundred-page book, explaining every single detail... brought to me, by a flock of carrier pigeons."
"My beloved Beatrice, before her untimely death, asked it, although she asked it too late. The question is: Where is Count Olaf?"
The Austere Academy
for Beatrice--
You will always be in my heart,
in my mind,
and in your grave.
p. 55 "For instance, my friend, Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping."
p. 130-131"...like the man--and not, alas, me--who was lucky enough to marry my beloved Beatrice, and live with her in happiness over the course of her short life."
p. 167-168"I once attended a masked ball hosted by the Duchess of Winnipeg ans it was one of the most exciting and dangerous evnings of my life I was disguised as a bullfighter ans slipped into the party while being persued by the palace guards, who were disguised as scorpions the moment I entered the Grand Ballroom I felt like a different person, I dared to approach a woman I had been forbidden to approach for the rest of my life. She was alone on the veranda...and costumed as a dragonfly, with a glittering green mask and enormous silvery wings. As my pursuers scurried around the party, trying to guess which guest was me, I shipped out to the veranda and gave her the message I'd been trying to give her for fifteen long and lonely years."Beatrice" I cried,
just as the scorpiuns spotted me, "Count Olaf is"
I cannot go on. It makes me weep to think of that evening and of the dark and desperate times that fowllowed...any more then a woman disguised as a dragonfly can actually take wing and escape the disaster awaiting her."
The Ersatz Elevator
for Beatrice--
When we met, my life began.
Soon afterward, yours ended.
..."But I want to steal from you the way Beartice stole from me"
--Esme Squalor to the Baudelaires
"...and it was a word that still haunts me in my dreams as I toss and turn each night, images of Beatrice and her legacy filling my weary, grieving brain... this word, I'm sorry to say, was 'Olaf.'"
The Vile Village
for Beatrice--
When we met together I felt breathless.
Now, you are.
"... I myself fell in love with a intelligent woman who was so charming and intelligent that I trusted that she would be my bride, but there was no way of knowing for sure, and all to soon circumstances changed and she ended up marrying someone else, all because of something she read in the daily punctilio."
The Hostile Hospital
for Beatrice--
Summer without you is as cold as winter.
Winter without you is even colder.
"... and I would hop like nobody has ever hopped before if I could somehow go back to that terrible Thursday and stop Beatrice from attending that afternoon at tea where she met Esme Squalor for the first time"
"the word "Beatrice" reminds me of a volunteer organization that was swarming with corruption."
"Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esme Squalor?"
"You might read a book on how to have a successful marriage, when the only woman you will ever love has married someone else and then perished one terrible afternoon."
On the patients list in Heimlich Hospital Their is the name CARRIE E. ABELABUDITE a anagram for Beatrice Baudelaire their is also the name NED H. RIRGER a anagram for red herring. This seems to prove her (Beatrice) as being the Baudelaire's mother though with the appearence of a "Red Herring" it makes this unclear. Later in the series it is proven the she is indeed the Baudelaires mother.
The Carnivorous Carnival
for Beatrice--
Our love broke my heart,
and stopped yours
The Slippery Slope
for Beatrice--
When we met you were pretty, and I was lonely.
now, I am pretty lonely.
Esme Squalor's stolen bright red snowsuit had the letter B sewn into the back of it along with the eye insignia. Ths could have been stolen from the Baudelaire mantion, though this is unclear.
"...I can imagine Mr. Kornbluth, even though he and his pistachios are long gone, turning from the window, smiling at the Baudelaire inventer, and saying, "Beatrice come over here! look at what this girl is making!"
p.102 In a letter to Kit from Lemony "...I will head straight for the hotel Denouement. I should arrive by-well it wouldn't be wise to tybe the date, but it should me easy for you to remember Beatrice's brithday." In The End Kit dies so this would seem to mean that either Lemony did not learn of her death until he researched the events that take place in The End or he was still writing the books while the story was happening.
p. 157-158 "Once I said to a woman I loved very much 'Im sure that this trouble will end soon, and you and I will spend the rest or our lives together in happiness and bliss' when I actually suspected that things were about to get much worse"
The Grim Grotto
for Beatrice--
Dead women tell no tales.
sad men write them down.
"...And Captain Widdershins was wrong to insist, as he did so many years ago, that a story in the Daily Punctilio was completely true, and to show this article to so many volunteers, including the Baudelaire parents the Snicket siblings, and the woman I happened to love."
Beatrice is the woman that Lemony loved so Beatice and the Baudelaire parents are mentioned as two separate entities. This seems to be a glitch or gramatical errer because in The End Beatrice is revealed to be the Baudelaire's mother.
The Penultimate Peril
for Beatrice--
No one could extinguish my love,
or your house.
"'And you know' Esme said in a terrible voice, 'that it(the Sugar Bowl) is mine.'
'Not anymore' Said Dewey.
'Beatrice stole it from me!' Esme cried."
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
This was encrypted in Sebald code in a message to a Mr. Lemony Snicket from the Vineyard of Fragrant Drapes on page 84-85: Hello if you are alive do not come here the Count will burn you and Beatrice stay away.
Beatrice was a actress who played the leading role in the play the World is Quiet Here by the unknown playwrite Linda Rhaldeen, Which is a anagram for Daniel Handler. The name of the theater is Ned H. Rirger, a anagram for Red Herring. The play required the leading actress to whistle Mozart's Fourteenth Symphony. (Note in the Wide Window Klaus says that their mother could whistle Mozart's Fourteenth Symphony with crackers in her mouth.) (Another note in The Carnivorous Carnival Violet says that their mother was in a play) These to pieces of evidence would lend themselves to say that Beatrcie is the Baudelaires mother.
a quote from chapter two of the Unauthorized autobiography in a letter to Lemony Snicket from the Duchess of Winnipeg R. it says
"Beatrice, of course, if far from complaining about lost possessions-- the very reason, I am certain, that you have dedicated your life to researching the lives of those three poor children." (is she far from complaining because she has lost her home as well or because she is dead.)
Other information:
regarding Beatrice and the Baudelaires mother in 'The Ersatz Elevator, when Jerome Squalor says to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire,
"Ah! You're adventurous! I like that in a person. Your mother was adventurous, too. You know, she and I were very good friends a ways back. We hiked up Mount Fraught with some friends � gosh, it must have been twenty years ago. Mount Fraught was known for having dangerous animals on it, but your mother wasn't afraid. But then, swooping out of the sky�"
and in the Wide Window it says
"I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling toward a small village. I have seen a a woman I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain nest."
This may seem to mean that Beatrice is the Baudelaires mother.
Lmoney Snicket helped Beatrice commit a serious crime before her death. That was from Lemony Snicket.com (Perhaps stealing the Sugar Bowl?)
THE BEATRICE LETTERS(a series of unfortunate events):
From The Publisher:
On the cusp of the last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket offers an unprecedented compilation of evidence encoded in a collection of revealing correspondence.
Collected by Mr. Snicket himself and delivered to Harper Collins under cover of night, this exquisite collection of intriguing correspondence sheds light on many of the mysteries surrounding Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. Including:
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?
This groundbreaking interactive package contains letters between Lemony Snicket and Beatrice as well as letters of the alphabet hidden throughout the package; unscramble it all and you will uncover what the future holds.
Publish Date: September 5, 2006
From a intervew with Lemony snicket
Q:what do you do to prepare to write?
A: I look at the only photograph I have of my beloved Beatirce and I say to myself:If you do not write these books, her worngful death will go unpunished.
Q :Is there any truth to the general rumor that Beatrice is, in fact, the Baudelaire's mother?
A:some truth but not total truth
from the rare edition of the Bad Beginning:
L A B � A T R I C E
Dans des terrains cendreux, calcin�s, sans verdure,
Comme je me plaignais un jour a la nature,
Et que de ma pens�e, en vaguant au hasard,
J'aiguisais lentement sur mon coeur le poignard,
Je vis en plein midi descendre sur ma t�te
Un nuage funebre et gros d'une temp�te,
Qui portait un troupeau de d�mons vicieux,
Semblables a des nains cruels et curieux...
-C. [Charles] Baudelaire
translation
L WITH B E A T R I C E
In brittle grounds, calcined, without greenery,
As I complained one day with nature,
And that of my thought, while making waves randomly,
I slowly sharpened on my heart the dagger,
I live in full midday to descend on my head
a funeral and large cloud of a storm,
Who carried a herd of vicious demons,
Similar has cruel and curious dwarves�
- C. [Charles] Baudelaire
In The Beatrice letters Lemony writes in Ls to BB #5 Quote "Enclose please find a lock of your hair, which I return to you, as you return the item I slipped on your fingure that night..." later in the same letter he writes quote "My heart shattered at the sight of the ring. Are you aware that it belonged to R.'s(The Dushess of Winnipeg) dear departed mother? You should have recognized the 'R' emblazoned in the center"
Then in The End page 228 it says Quote "The Baudelaires saw that it was an ornate right emblazoned with the inital R. and stared at it quite puzzled. 'This ring' Ishmael said. 'belonged to the Duchess of Winnipeg, who gave it to her daughter, who also gave it to her daughter, who also gave it to her daughter, and so on and so on. Eventually, the last Duchess of Winnipeg joined V.F.D. and gave this ring to Kit Snicket's brother. He gave it yo your mother, or reasons I don't understand she gave it back to him..."
This proves that the Beatrice of Lemony's affection was indeed Beatrice Baudelaire mother of Violet Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and wife of Bertrand Baudeaire.
Though there are many books in this world, they all seem to have a few things in common. For instance, they all have words. They all have a cover, and, in the beginning of most every book, there is a dedication.
This dedication is merely a place where an author can put someone�s name and say that they wrote the book "for him or her" (which they may have). Also, usually, when one author writes many books, he dedicates each of them to a different person.
Snicket�s dedications, however, seem to be written a bit differently. Each book has been dedicated to one person, known to us solely as Beatrice.
Throughout Snicket�s books he has shown many signs of affection for Beatrice, and has mentioned her, not only in his dedications, but also at random points in his books.
Here is a list of his dedications to Beatrice and other information on her:
Beatrice in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The Bad Beginning
to Beatrice--
Darling, dearest, dead.
(From the Rare Edition of the Bad Beginning)
p. 23 ...the stuffed head of a lion, which was nailed to the wall.
For more information about the abuse of lions, interested parties might turn to Book the Ninth. Professional lions are often named after their trainers, but I have been unable to determine if the lion on Count Olaf's wall was Beatrice or Bertrand.
"...In my room I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a blurry photograph taken a very long time ago, of a woman those name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me."
The Reptile Room
for Beatrice--
My love for you shall live forever. you, however, did not.
The Wide Window
for Beatrice--
I would much prefer it if you were alive and well
"I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling toward a small village. I have seen a a woman I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain nest."
The Miserable Mill
to Beatrice
My love flew like a butterfly
Until death swooped down like a bat
as the poet Emma Montana McElroy said:
"That's the end of that"
"For instance, I once loved a woman, who for various reasons could not marry me... she chose instead to write a two-hundred-page book, explaining every single detail... brought to me, by a flock of carrier pigeons."
"My beloved Beatrice, before her untimely death, asked it, although she asked it too late. The question is: Where is Count Olaf?"
The Austere Academy
for Beatrice--
You will always be in my heart,
in my mind,
and in your grave.
p. 55 "For instance, my friend, Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third. The triptych is entitled What Happened to Beatrice and I cannot look upon it without weeping."
p. 130-131"...like the man--and not, alas, me--who was lucky enough to marry my beloved Beatrice, and live with her in happiness over the course of her short life."
p. 167-168"I once attended a masked ball hosted by the Duchess of Winnipeg ans it was one of the most exciting and dangerous evnings of my life I was disguised as a bullfighter ans slipped into the party while being persued by the palace guards, who were disguised as scorpions the moment I entered the Grand Ballroom I felt like a different person, I dared to approach a woman I had been forbidden to approach for the rest of my life. She was alone on the veranda...and costumed as a dragonfly, with a glittering green mask and enormous silvery wings. As my pursuers scurried around the party, trying to guess which guest was me, I shipped out to the veranda and gave her the message I'd been trying to give her for fifteen long and lonely years."Beatrice" I cried,
just as the scorpiuns spotted me, "Count Olaf is"
I cannot go on. It makes me weep to think of that evening and of the dark and desperate times that fowllowed...any more then a woman disguised as a dragonfly can actually take wing and escape the disaster awaiting her."
The Ersatz Elevator
for Beatrice--
When we met, my life began.
Soon afterward, yours ended.
..."But I want to steal from you the way Beartice stole from me"
--Esme Squalor to the Baudelaires
"...and it was a word that still haunts me in my dreams as I toss and turn each night, images of Beatrice and her legacy filling my weary, grieving brain... this word, I'm sorry to say, was 'Olaf.'"
The Vile Village
for Beatrice--
When we met together I felt breathless.
Now, you are.
"... I myself fell in love with a intelligent woman who was so charming and intelligent that I trusted that she would be my bride, but there was no way of knowing for sure, and all to soon circumstances changed and she ended up marrying someone else, all because of something she read in the daily punctilio."
The Hostile Hospital
for Beatrice--
Summer without you is as cold as winter.
Winter without you is even colder.
"... and I would hop like nobody has ever hopped before if I could somehow go back to that terrible Thursday and stop Beatrice from attending that afternoon at tea where she met Esme Squalor for the first time"
"the word "Beatrice" reminds me of a volunteer organization that was swarming with corruption."
"Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esme Squalor?"
"You might read a book on how to have a successful marriage, when the only woman you will ever love has married someone else and then perished one terrible afternoon."
On the patients list in Heimlich Hospital Their is the name CARRIE E. ABELABUDITE a anagram for Beatrice Baudelaire their is also the name NED H. RIRGER a anagram for red herring. This seems to prove her (Beatrice) as being the Baudelaire's mother though with the appearence of a "Red Herring" it makes this unclear. Later in the series it is proven the she is indeed the Baudelaires mother.
The Carnivorous Carnival
for Beatrice--
Our love broke my heart,
and stopped yours
The Slippery Slope
for Beatrice--
When we met you were pretty, and I was lonely.
now, I am pretty lonely.
Esme Squalor's stolen bright red snowsuit had the letter B sewn into the back of it along with the eye insignia. Ths could have been stolen from the Baudelaire mantion, though this is unclear.
"...I can imagine Mr. Kornbluth, even though he and his pistachios are long gone, turning from the window, smiling at the Baudelaire inventer, and saying, "Beatrice come over here! look at what this girl is making!"
p.102 In a letter to Kit from Lemony "...I will head straight for the hotel Denouement. I should arrive by-well it wouldn't be wise to tybe the date, but it should me easy for you to remember Beatrice's brithday." In The End Kit dies so this would seem to mean that either Lemony did not learn of her death until he researched the events that take place in The End or he was still writing the books while the story was happening.
p. 157-158 "Once I said to a woman I loved very much 'Im sure that this trouble will end soon, and you and I will spend the rest or our lives together in happiness and bliss' when I actually suspected that things were about to get much worse"
The Grim Grotto
for Beatrice--
Dead women tell no tales.
sad men write them down.
"...And Captain Widdershins was wrong to insist, as he did so many years ago, that a story in the Daily Punctilio was completely true, and to show this article to so many volunteers, including the Baudelaire parents the Snicket siblings, and the woman I happened to love."
Beatrice is the woman that Lemony loved so Beatice and the Baudelaire parents are mentioned as two separate entities. This seems to be a glitch or gramatical errer because in The End Beatrice is revealed to be the Baudelaire's mother.
The Penultimate Peril
for Beatrice--
No one could extinguish my love,
or your house.
"'And you know' Esme said in a terrible voice, 'that it(the Sugar Bowl) is mine.'
'Not anymore' Said Dewey.
'Beatrice stole it from me!' Esme cried."
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
This was encrypted in Sebald code in a message to a Mr. Lemony Snicket from the Vineyard of Fragrant Drapes on page 84-85: Hello if you are alive do not come here the Count will burn you and Beatrice stay away.
Beatrice was a actress who played the leading role in the play the World is Quiet Here by the unknown playwrite Linda Rhaldeen, Which is a anagram for Daniel Handler. The name of the theater is Ned H. Rirger, a anagram for Red Herring. The play required the leading actress to whistle Mozart's Fourteenth Symphony. (Note in the Wide Window Klaus says that their mother could whistle Mozart's Fourteenth Symphony with crackers in her mouth.) (Another note in The Carnivorous Carnival Violet says that their mother was in a play) These to pieces of evidence would lend themselves to say that Beatrcie is the Baudelaires mother.
a quote from chapter two of the Unauthorized autobiography in a letter to Lemony Snicket from the Duchess of Winnipeg R. it says
"Beatrice, of course, if far from complaining about lost possessions-- the very reason, I am certain, that you have dedicated your life to researching the lives of those three poor children." (is she far from complaining because she has lost her home as well or because she is dead.)
Other information:
regarding Beatrice and the Baudelaires mother in 'The Ersatz Elevator, when Jerome Squalor says to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire,
"Ah! You're adventurous! I like that in a person. Your mother was adventurous, too. You know, she and I were very good friends a ways back. We hiked up Mount Fraught with some friends � gosh, it must have been twenty years ago. Mount Fraught was known for having dangerous animals on it, but your mother wasn't afraid. But then, swooping out of the sky�"
and in the Wide Window it says
"I have seen many amazing things in my long and troubled life history. I have seen a series of corridors built entirely out of human skulls. I have seen a volcano erupt and send a wall of lava crawling toward a small village. I have seen a a woman I loved picked up by an enormous eagle and flown to its high mountain nest."
This may seem to mean that Beatrice is the Baudelaires mother.
Lmoney Snicket helped Beatrice commit a serious crime before her death. That was from Lemony Snicket.com (Perhaps stealing the Sugar Bowl?)
THE BEATRICE LETTERS(a series of unfortunate events):
From The Publisher:
On the cusp of the last book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket offers an unprecedented compilation of evidence encoded in a collection of revealing correspondence.
Collected by Mr. Snicket himself and delivered to Harper Collins under cover of night, this exquisite collection of intriguing correspondence sheds light on many of the mysteries surrounding Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events. Including:
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?
This groundbreaking interactive package contains letters between Lemony Snicket and Beatrice as well as letters of the alphabet hidden throughout the package; unscramble it all and you will uncover what the future holds.
Publish Date: September 5, 2006
From a intervew with Lemony snicket
Q:what do you do to prepare to write?
A: I look at the only photograph I have of my beloved Beatirce and I say to myself:If you do not write these books, her worngful death will go unpunished.
Q :Is there any truth to the general rumor that Beatrice is, in fact, the Baudelaire's mother?
A:some truth but not total truth
from the rare edition of the Bad Beginning:
L A B � A T R I C E
Dans des terrains cendreux, calcin�s, sans verdure,
Comme je me plaignais un jour a la nature,
Et que de ma pens�e, en vaguant au hasard,
J'aiguisais lentement sur mon coeur le poignard,
Je vis en plein midi descendre sur ma t�te
Un nuage funebre et gros d'une temp�te,
Qui portait un troupeau de d�mons vicieux,
Semblables a des nains cruels et curieux...
-C. [Charles] Baudelaire
translation
L WITH B E A T R I C E
In brittle grounds, calcined, without greenery,
As I complained one day with nature,
And that of my thought, while making waves randomly,
I slowly sharpened on my heart the dagger,
I live in full midday to descend on my head
a funeral and large cloud of a storm,
Who carried a herd of vicious demons,
Similar has cruel and curious dwarves�
- C. [Charles] Baudelaire
In The Beatrice letters Lemony writes in Ls to BB #5 Quote "Enclose please find a lock of your hair, which I return to you, as you return the item I slipped on your fingure that night..." later in the same letter he writes quote "My heart shattered at the sight of the ring. Are you aware that it belonged to R.'s(The Dushess of Winnipeg) dear departed mother? You should have recognized the 'R' emblazoned in the center"
Then in The End page 228 it says Quote "The Baudelaires saw that it was an ornate right emblazoned with the inital R. and stared at it quite puzzled. 'This ring' Ishmael said. 'belonged to the Duchess of Winnipeg, who gave it to her daughter, who also gave it to her daughter, who also gave it to her daughter, and so on and so on. Eventually, the last Duchess of Winnipeg joined V.F.D. and gave this ring to Kit Snicket's brother. He gave it yo your mother, or reasons I don't understand she gave it back to him..."
This proves that the Beatrice of Lemony's affection was indeed Beatrice Baudelaire mother of Violet Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and wife of Bertrand Baudeaire.