#I reread The Beatrice Letters for research purposes

[overthestars-and-offtoneverland]

I'm sorry. I can't let it go.

The man writes you 4 pages about all of the intense ways he feels his love for you, waxing poetic about not only super dope idioms but also personal connections the two of you share.

And you cancel your engagement with a 200 page novella tearing this guy down?

That is 50x longer than his love confession!

The relationship was like 15 years long and you felt 200 pages was necessary?! Dear God, I know the situation is complicated but I also know he didn't do anything bad enough to warrant 200 pages of getting his heart broken!

WHAT ON EARTH TOOK 200 PAGES TO SAY?! HE PROBABLY GOT THE POINT IN THE FIRST 3!

[snicketstrange]

Rereading The End : Chapter 5

At the beginning of chapter 5 Lemony makes it clear that one of the Baudelaire orphans could be the reader of that book, which was published years after the events described in it. This is strong evidence that Lemony believes that the Baudelaires may still be alive ... So the idea that Lemony was running away from Beatrice Jr for fear of being forced to charge that the Baudelaires were actually dead is unsupported . Lemony knows that they may be alive (and he knows that they may be dead). In other words, Lemony has no hard evidence to convince him either way.

"If you are a braeman or brae-woman—a term for someone who lives all alone on a hill—then peer pressure is fairly easy to avoid, as you have no peers except for the occasional your cave and try to pressure you into growing a woolly coat."

This sentence is a clear reference to TBL, which indicates that Lemony is in fact a Braeman, which indicates that the two anagrams formed by the letters are correct.

In TE, in chapter 5 we have proof of the incredible Sunny memory. I believe that Daniel Handler had to find somewhere to prove that Sunny had an incredible memory. Sunny managed to remember details of when she was only a few weeks old. We already had proof of Klaus' memory, and also of Violet's incredible memory, when she managed to remember details of when she was 2 years old. Delivering this ability to the Baudelaires was important, as they had to write details of their own history in the island book which Lemony would then find some time later and would serve as the basis for all 13 books published by Lemony, even those that Lemony wrote on the security of his apartment (TBB, TRR and TWW)

In fact, I seriously believe that Lemony just wanted to confirm what he had already read. The questions used in TBBRE indicate precisely that he already had prior information and only confirmed things. These are questions like: "Do you confirm that on that day three children stopped by and bought this or that?" or "did you really see a walktalk in Olaf's hands?" When people denied seeing the walktalk he wrote that there was indeed the walktalk but no one seemed to notice it.

Lemony evidently promised to record the story as accurately as possible, and he certainly took into account the possibility that the Baudelaires might have been confused when reporting some details of the events in their own history. Lemony is fascinated by details that may seem insignificant to us.

But I must remind you that Lemony has information that exceeds his research findings, as in the case of the crash of the caravan where Violet and Klaus were staying, as well as what happened inside. It is evident that this information came from the Baudelaires themselves, who wrote about it at some point and such writings were found by Lemony.

Not only does the existence of this information give evidence of this, but also the absence of other indications also give evidence of this. Sunny didn't see what happened inside Olaf's tent at the top of the mountain, so Lemony doesn't know what happened inside, so Lemony doesn't write about it. Klaus cannot remember what happened while he was hypnotized, so Lemony did not write about these events from Klaus' point of view, because Lemony does not know what Klaus actually saw. This ends as soon as Klaus comes out of hypinosis and Lemony again has access to the boy's memories.

Regarding the differences between the information that Beatrice Jr has and that reported in Lemony's books, Dante solved this problem in a beautiful and logical way: The Baudelaires purposely lied to Beatrice Jr by verbally reporting some events that they were ashamed of having practiced. . It may seem contradictory for them to have lied to Beatrice Jr but to have written the truth in an abandoned book on the island, but I am sure it is easier to talk about your mistakes to a stranger than to someone you love. (I think this is the meaning of confectioners in some churches).

I want to point out that Klaus, Sunny and Violet's conversation about Sunny's first swim is one of the private conversations that Lemony would not have access to just by searching the place. He had to read about this conversation in something that the Baudelaires wrote.

In fact, TE as a whole is proof that Lemony did not write his books for chasing the Baudelaires by recording their every step. Lemony was not on that island.