![]() ![]() I did wonder if they were really there all the time - possibly sometimes Flan is with one of them when she thinks she is with Natasha. What has happened to Flan's' parents? She says at one point that they have 'disappeared'. I will hae to reread it soon - it is the sort of book that demands to be reread with great care.ฤก. On page 18 'Reader, note that she pronounces my nickname not as the first syllable of my name is regularly pronounced, but as "a pastry or tart."' So how do you pronounce the first syllable of 'Flannery'? I would say it the same as a pastry or tart anyway. In the acknowledgements, DH mentions 'Louis and 324 Handler'. It puts TBL in a new - and somewhat disturbing -light. ![]() His love grows and grows through the letters. We never read the letters she writes to him. 'Idea for a story: A man falls in love with a woman and writes her letter after letter. a character known only by an initial (V). (Yes, I know this is rather trivial, but the typewriter is very much Lemony's symbol, and I would have thought was already out of date when this was published.) I'm only about fifty pages in, and we have had Whereas with Adverbs I felt it was by a completely different writer, here I can sense Lemony Snicket struggling to be born. I've just got a second-hand copy of this and begun reading it. ![]()
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