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This is part 13 of the Strange Interpretation of Jean Lúcio from Brazil

To understand this text, it is necessary to read some of my previous texts.

The Snicket File Theory

The Beatrice Letters Theory

The Sugar Bowls Theory

Finally we come to my most bitter hypothesis. This hypothesis is really very controversial. But I like it anyway. I like this because this hypothesis is based on several aspects of my strange interpretation. But it's still a hypothesis. From time to time I wonder about this possibility, and until today I could not eliminate it completely. And every time I think about it more, but it seems real. This time, the hypothesis begins with the poem My Silence Knot that follows.

 My Silence Knot

  A poem about a story of two people who...

 Written by the person in the story (in the play in the poem) who…

 My silence knot is tied up in my hair,

 As if to keep my love out of my eyes.

 I cannot speak to one for whom I care.

 A hatpin serves as part of my disguise.

  In the play, my role is baticeer,

 A word which here means “person who trains bats.”

 The audience may fell a prick of fear,

 As if sharp pins are hidden in their hats.

 My co-star lives on what we call a brae.

 His solitude might not be just an act.

 A piece of mail fails to arrive one day.

 This poignant melodrama’s based on fact.

  The curtain falls just as the knot unties,

 The silence broken by the one who dies.

  If you read my theory about the anagrams My Silence Knot and Baticeer, you must remember that I defend the idea that these anagrams were created by Lemony in a code class. Beatrice, the mother of the Baudelaire siblings, used these anagrams to identify herself in letters, proving the authorship of the letter. Thus, for Beatrice to insert these anagrams into the poem, she was actually telling Lemony that this poem was a letter from Beatrice to Lemony. This is the oldest text produced by the mother of the Baudelaire siblings to which we have access. And this is the most important text of the whole work. In fact, some ASOUE theorists believe that this is a prophetic text. They believe that My Silence Knot somehow "miraculously" predicted events involving the complicated relationship between Lemony and Beatrice. However, I do not believe that in the universe of ASOUE there is any kind of true occultism, premunition or divine interference. That would be quite contrary to the ASOUE style. Also, note this passage in LS to BB # 2:

 “You and R. are probably learning how to convey coded messages in melodramatic dialogue as I write this.”

 Thus, Beatrice received specialized training in inserting encoded messages into plays. My Silence Knot is a poem used in a play, so it contains a secret message from Beatrice. If you exclude the possibility of this poem containing a prophetic message, you will understand that the poem can only be talking about four things: 1 - About events of the past; 2 - About events from the moment the play was being written; 3 - About things Beatrice planned to do; 4 - about things that Beatrice deduced would happen on the basis of events that had already taken place.

 For Beatrice, the Poem My Silence Knot was very important. She wanted very much that Lemony had understood the meaning of the poem from the first time he watched the play. But Lemony did not understand the importance of the poem, nor the secret message contained in it.

 The LS to BB # 5 letter contains some responses from Lemony to Beatrice that indicate this.

 “Question Four: No, I don’t think so. I remember the performance, of course, and I remember your splendid costume, and I remember the hatpin you dropped off the stage, and I remember the argument I had with Eleonora Poe the next morning, when I was more than an hour late in turning in my theatrical review, but I don’t remember anything about the theatrical program. If I held a program I don’t remember opening it. If I opened it I don’t remember seeing a poem. If I saw a poem I don’t remember Reading it, and if I read it I don’t remember rereading it, and if I reread it I don’t remember being puzzle or continuing to be puzzled. In short, I’m puzzled. “

Notice that in the 200-page letter in which Beatrice explained to Lemony why she could not marry him, Beatrice made a point of asking if Lemony remembered the poem My Silence Knot, and everything indicates that Lemony did not remember. Similarly, Beatrice asked Lemony if he remembered the meaning of Baticeer.

 Question seven: “A man or woman who trains bats”.

 I am sure that this was not the answer that Beatrice expected to receive. She wanted Lemony to write something like, "Baticeer is the anagram of your name." That's because Beatrice, just after asking something like "Do you remember what Baticeer means?" She asked something like "Do you remember what an anagram is ? "

 Question Eight: “The scrambling of letters in a word, name or phrase in order to make new word or phrase.”

She also asked Lemony something like this: "Do you understand what Brae-Man means?" Lemony should have answered something like: "I realized that in the play My Silence Knot the Brae-Man represented me." However, Lemony replied :

 Question six: “A man who lives in the hills.”

 At last Beatrice wanted to point out again that the play and the poem contained a secret message. So Beatrice asked something like, "Do you believe that a letter, a word, a play, and a sonnet can be written in code?" This question was to stimulate Lemony to reason about the poem My Silence Knot, and the play itself and anagrams. If he had thought of these points, Lemony would have realized Beatrice's true plan. Lemony replied:

Question Eleven: Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are time when it seems the entire world is in code…

 This lack of perception by Lemony explains why he did not use My Silence Knot and Baticeer in all the letters he sent to Beatrice. In the letter LS to BB # 4, Lemony used "My Silence Knot". Beatrice even emphasized that expression. The fact that she underlined makes me think of two possibilities: either she thought of using My Silence Knot as a means of identifying herself in letters (which I think is unlikely), or she believed that Lemony had inserted that expression as a form of himself in the letter, just as she herself would do. The risk of someone pretending to be someone else in a letter was more real, and she understood that she had to use this method to assure Lemony that she herself was the author of a letter. But apparently, Lemony was talking only about the play that had that name. In the letter LS to BB # 3, Lemony did not use any anagram, because he had not yet realized that it would be a good idea to use the anagrams he had created to identify himself in letters. It was probably only when he received the 200-page letter that he realized Beatrice's method of inserting anagrams of their names to identify themselves. So in LS to BB # 5, Lemony uses the phrase "My Silence Knot" in a somewhat artificial way. (Lemony: Lemony planned to use these anagrams somewhere in the text, but that was not possible.) Lemony did not realize that the poem that My Silence Knot had secret message to him, since he forgot the contents of the poem, and even the title of the poem.

Anyway, the LS to BB # 5 letter does not seem to have reached Beatrice's hands. Lemony could answer 12 of Beatrice's 13 questions. And he did it. But when she tried to talk to Lemony many years later, Beatrice wrote in BB to LS # 4: "Why did not you answer? Why will not you answer any of my questions? I must have at least twelve. "For me, the reason for this letter not having arrived was another mistake caused by bats. Beatrice knew that sending a message for bats was unreliable, so she sent her 200-page letter through pigeons. This is very significant when you think that Beatrice is a bat trainer. Why would not a baticeer send his own bats to deliver a message? Well, she said it was very difficult to make a bat obey her orders.

 But the right question is: What is the secret message that is hidden in My Silence Knot? And why did Beatrice want Lemony to remember this poem, even when she was canceling her marriage? Let's look at the poem part by part.

Title: My Silence Knot. [This title indicates that this poem is a letter to Lemony].

 A poem about a story of two people who...[The two people must be Beatrice and Lemony.]

  Written by the person in the story (in the play in the poem) who ... [This poem was written by Beatrice.]

  "My silence knot is tied up in my hair,

As if to keep my love out of my eyes. "

  Explanation: The expression My Silence Knot, besides being an anagram of Lemony Snicket, is also a symbol of a secret that bothers a lot. Beatrice had to keep this secret in her mind. This secret kept her love from her eyes. That is, this secret was the cause that drove Beatrice away from Lemony.

  I can not speak to one for whom I care.

A hatpin serves as part of my disguise.

  Beatrice was barred from talking to Lemony in public. Lemony was working undercover in the Daily Punctilio. Probably Lemony had to pretend to be a member of the incendiary side of Schism. Lemony explained in the letter LS to BB # 3: "We will have to be more careful during our evenings together. We should stay away from open widows, even if we are outdoors, and check carefully under the bed even if no one is sleeping in it ... When you take your bows after Friday's performance, I will be sitting in the front row, but do not acknowledge me. As you take your bow, drop one of your hatpins off the stage. That will be your signal to me that is safe to meet at the usual place for our midnight root beer floats. "

The romantic relationship between Beatrice and Lemony was secret. Beatrice realized that they could not marry under these circumstances, especially when this secret was discovered.

  In the play, my role is baticeer,

A word which here means "person who trains bats."

The audience may fell a prick of fear,

The sharp pins are hidden in their hats.

  The play My Silence Knot had two main characters. One of them was a Baticeer. Beatrice represented himself through this Baticeer. What was the other character?

  "My co-star lives on what we call a brae.

His solitude might not just be an act.

 Lemony explained in LS to BB # 4:

“Reports are coming everywhere from Tedia to Paltryville that the performances of My Silence Knot are splendid, and that your performance as the Baticeer is the highlight of the show, even surpassing the performance of the Brae-man.”

 So the other main character in the play was Brae-Man. As the letter BB to LS # 3 indicates, Lemony Snicket himself lived in a cave in the mountains, turning him into a Brae-Man. Beatrice already knew the existence of this cave, and that Lemony had a hiding place there. In the letter LS to BB # 2, Lemony wrote:

“I hope you might join me for a few hours of cave exploration.”

Then, Beatrice wrote the character Brae-Man to represent Lemony. But it is important to note that she said: "His solitude might not be just an act." That phrase is very significant. This indicates that Beatrice believed that her separation from Lemony was in part only acting. This conclusion is reinforced by another passage from the same poem:

 The curtain falls just as the knot unties,

 A falling curtain is the symbol of the end of a play. Beatrice said that the secret that bothers her would stop bothering when the play came to an end. But what play was she talking about? For me the answer is her separation from Lemony. The separation would be only temporary. They would stand apart acting in their roles for many years to one day rejoin. But the loneliness that Lemony would feel during his years alone would not be just acting. Lemony would feel lonely for real. Beatrice wrote the 200-page letter a few years after she wrote this poem. By the time of the 200-page letter, she had probably realized she would need to marry Bertrand. But, through the questions she asked Lemony, she basically said, "My plan to stay with you is still standing, Lemony. One day we will still be together. Keep believing that my marriage to Bertrand as part of a play that separates us. But it will be a play that will end."

 Lemony should understand this, and accept loneliness, which would not be just acting on his part. But what caused this situation so difficult from one moment to another?

 A piece of mail fails to arrive one day.

This poignant melodrama's based on fact.

  Beatrice could not be talking about a letter in the future that would fail to arrive. She could only be speaking of a letter in the past that failed to arrive. A letter that contained crucial information but fell into the wrong hands. This letter may only have been LS To BB # 4. When Lemony wrote this letter, Beatrice had already begun acting in the play My Silence Knot. However she had not written the poem My Silence Knot yet. It is important to note one detail: LS to BB # 4 was written before LS to BB # 3. When Lemony wrote LS to BB # 4, R was still working on the Daily Punctilio, and Lemony talks about her as if she was going to continue working it for a while. Already when Lemony wrote LS to BB # 3, R's mother had already passed away, and she was about to leave Daily Punctilio to become the Duchess of Winnipeg. (It is interesting to view the TBL file as a large anagram, where the sequence of the letters is not necessarily in chronological order). The letter LS to BB # 4 fell into someone else's hands. This person pretended to be R. But it was not R. First, that person did not use the calligraphy of R. (We know the calligraphy of R through The UA.). In addition, this person put some cup or drink on the letter without using a drink coaster, and left the mark of a moist ring on the letter. I'm sure neither R nor Beatrice would be able to do that. This is the hallmark of people who are not noble. This indicates that this letter fell into the hands of Lemony Snicket's enemies before being sent to Bearice. The person who sent it pretended to be R, but it was not R. This letter revealed to the enemies of Lemony the secret relationship between Beatrice and Lemony. I do not know what happened next, but I can imagine threats and blackmail against Beatrice. Maybe her work in theater also involved being a double agent. Besides, Lemony could start receiving messages from some enemy pretending to be Beatrice. And so the use of anagrams in the letters became necessary. But anyway, I believe that because of the disclosure of information about the relationship between Lemony and Beatrice, Beatrice was in a very complicated situation. When she received Lemony's instruction to use the pin as a disguise, she created the poem My Silence Knot and inserted that information on the pin in the poem (this helps us to position the poem's creation on the timeline). And in this poem, she indicated the secret plan that she elaborated.

And of course, this plan involved what Beatrice knew best: acting.

  The curtain falls just as the knot unties,

The silence broken by the one who dies.

  One day someone who would die would break the silence. At that moment the play would end. Does that mean that Beatrice predicted her own death? Predicting that you're going to die one day is not hard at all. But Beatrice was claiming that someone's death would end the awkward secret. At that moment, the play would come to an end. If you've read my whole theory, you know that Beatrice survived the burning of her house. So, in other words, Beatrice was trying to tell Lemony that she would fake her own death, and then end all the motives that kept her apart from Lemony. She would finally be able to talk to Lemony, and live with Lemony, as she always wanted. That's why this poem was so important to Beatrice. Why should Lemony wait for her. He should wait until the day she would fake her own death. When Beatrice wrote this poem, she did not know that putting her plan into practice would cost such a high price.

When Beatrice wrote this poem, she did not know that putting her plan into practice would cost such a high price. Beatrice asked something very important to Lemony in the 200-page letter. It was question number 9. Lemony gave a very good answer to that question. The question went something like this: "Will you still love me no matter what?" When we understand Beatrice's plan, we understand why she included a question from her in a letter that she was canceling the marriage. She wanted to know if Lemony would continue to love her, and wait for her. But it was more than that. "Will you continue to love me, no matter what, or what I do?"

On the day Beatrice faked her own death, Bertrand really died. His body was charred. But Beatrice fled unscathed. There was a tape recorder in Beatrice's house, inside a sugar bowl. This sugar bowl was not found by her when she left the tunnel. Someone took him from there, and sent him to the Secret Library at the Denouement Hotel by means of ravens. This sugar bowl stayed there for many years until Lemony, while writing TPP, found it. And Lemony discovered the truth. Bearice had killed Bertrand. Beatrice had intensely abandoned her children at the hands of an unrepentant banker. And Beatrice planned this for many years. It's Beatrice's fault. She loved Lemony so much, loving him above the love she had for her husband, or for her children. And this unconditional love led her to act cruelly in the name of love. She deceived Bertrand by saying that he needed to deal with private matters alone with him. Then they sent their children to Binny Beach. Then she killed him. She sent a telegram to Mr. Poe pretending to be someone else. And then she set fire to the house, protecting herself in the tunnel.

How did Lemony react when she discovered the truth? I can only imagine how disappointed he felt. Lemony created an aversion for Beatrice. He stopped writing ASOUE for many years, initiating a large gap between the TPP and TE books. Beatrice, the mother of the Baudelaire siblings tried to meet Lemony.

 In BB to LS # 4 Beatrice wrote: "That was me, knocking on your office door yesterday evening. I know you were inside, becouse I followed you from the library, you were standing for an hour staring into the glass case containg old documents on display for "Staged Petry: Sonnets by Actors & Actresses" exhibit ... By the time I managed to pick the lock on the front door, you were around sevral floors ahead of me on the stairs, but I could hear you wheezing from the climb bt the time I got your door.Why did not you answer? .. Please do not hesitate to contact me at your earliest conveinence.Just one letter can change everything.The three Baudelaires may be long gone, but there is to fouth Baudelaire here, waiting for you to untie "My Silence Knot" and help me find the end of a story that beagan with you - in the very room where I sit now ... "

 Beatrice went to Lemony's apartment, and he purposely did not respond. I honestly believe Lemony knew she was Beatrice and did not want to talk to her. That's because he knew what she had done. In fact, Lemony had fought for many years against all kinds of evil. And he did it using lethal force when he believed that it was necessary. Imagine finding out that the woman he had loved for so long, and even helped commit a crime for hiding her from justice, had herself murdered a VFD volunteer with whom she had been married for over 14 years. Besides, she had abandoned her own children! R had spoken about Beatrice in the letter found in chapter 2 of The UA, that Beatrice was not about claiming lost possessions. R was talking about Beatrice's own children, whom she had abandoned. Thinking of all this, Lemony did not want to speak to Beatrice. It is interesting that Lemony had decided to find the poem My Silence Knot. When he discovered the contents of the recording, he must have realized that Beatrice not only killed Bertrand, but he had also planned it for a long time. Lemony must have reread the 200-page letter, and the questions Beatrice asked. And finally he must have realized the importance of the poem. And that he could mean that Beatrice had planned to kill Bertrand since before marrying him. So I believe that this search for Lemony by the poem My Silence Knot took place between the publication of TPP and TE. Be that as it may, Beatrice did not give up.

 The letter BB to LS # 5 indicates that Beatrice rented an apartment just above Lemony's apartment. She said:

"Please, sir, I beg of you, simply walk out the staircase, walk up one flight of stars, head down the corridor, and knot on the door of the office, dricetly above yours, and untie" My Silence Knot. "

 But Lemony did not follow these instructions. Finally, Beatrice made her last attempt. She was still staying in the apartment just above Lemony's when she wrote the letter BB to LS # 6. She made a point of writing the word Baticeer on the card, to identify herself as the real first Beatrice.

 "I am sorry I embarrassed you in front of yours friends." I just wanted to talk to you to talk to you. "The waiter agreed to bring this cart with you," If you do not want to meet me, rip it in half When you are done with your root beer float, and I will leave and never try to contact you again.But if you want to meet me, I'm the ten-year-old girl at the corner table B. "

 Apparently Lemony agreed to talk Beatrice, because the card is intact. Besides, Beatrice must have taken all the letters Lemony had sent her, which she had access to. And that's why Lemony managed to gather in the TBL file the letters that he himself had sent to Beatrice. Beatrice claims to be 10 years old. Of course, Beatrice wanted Lemony to think of her as the little girl from years ago when they met for the first time. Maybe she even disguised herself as a 10 year old girl. This indicates that Lemony had a long talk with Beatrice.

 What happened to both? Did they spend a couple of years together? Did they secretly marry and live happily for many years? Well ... We're talking about ASOUE. Happiness for many years is simply not an option. As I explained in The Beatrice Letters Theory, Beatrice died before the publication of the book TE. When Lemony wrote the letter to the editor at the end of TBL, Beatrice was already dead. Notice what this phrase that Lemony wrote:

"Because I loved her so much, for instance, it never occurred to me that there could be more than one Beatrice Baudelaire."

 Is Lemony referring to the fact that there were literally two Beatrices, one being the mother of the Baudelaire siblings and another the daughter of Kit? No. Of course, there were these two Beatrice. But Lemony's love would not in any way impede him from recognizing their existence as two humans of the same name. However, Lemony's love would hinder him from recognizing that there was more than one Beatrice Baudelaire in the sense that Beatrice, the mother of the Baudelaire Siblings, was both a good person and a bad person.

He also wrote:

"This file is finished - just when I thought it might finis me.I can not stare at these papers any longer, or run my hands along ink, my eyes filled with tears and my fingers are sained and paper-cut. here are like all secrets - dangerous to those who discover them and harmless to those who fail to notice them. "

 These words seem to describe a disappointed man. Lemony also said that collecting the letters was killing him. And you know what else? I believe that the situation that Lemony realized was driving him to utter despair. He had to finish writing the book The End. But before Lemony wrote to his editor, "The End is near."

 If you search for the word "End" in a dictionary you will find a very interesting definition:

 2a: cessation of a course of action, pursuit, or activity

b: DEATH, DESTRUCTION

 So, when Lemony wrote "The End is Near," Lemony might be saying "Death is near."

 Soon after the dedication in chapter 14 of The End book, Lemony wrote the penultimate stanza of the poem Le Voyage of Charles Baudelaire.

 Ô Mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! levons l'ancre!

Ce pays nous ennuie, ô Mort! Appareillons!

If you ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l'encre,

We coeurs that connais sont remplis de rayons!

 Translated it looks like this:

Death, old captain, it's time! let's weigh anchor!

This country wearies us, O Death! Let us set sail!

Though the sea and the sky are black as ink,

Our hearts that you know well are filled with rays of light

 This is a clear quote from someone who wants death, or someone who is about to commit suicide. Neither Beatrice nor her children ever came to any situation where they wished to die. The only one who could be in this situation due to the problems already mentioned was Lemony himself. It's interesting how everything closes with Lemony's death. Notice how the last stanza of Charles Baudelaire's poem is:

 Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous réconforte!

Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau,

Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer or Ciel, qu'importe?

Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau!

 Translating looks something like this:

 Pour on your poison to refresh us!

Oh, this fire so burns our brains, we would

Dive to the depths of the gulf, Heaven or Hell, what matter?

If only to find in the depths of the Unknown the New.

 The poet asks for death to kill him, and so he would find something new within the Unknown. My hypothesis is that Lemony used the whistle that controlled the Great Unknown, and ordered the Marine Beast to devour him. Of course, he sent the original from The End to the publisher before that.

It is important to note that Lemony ended the story earlier than he expected. Lemony hoped to recount what happened the third time Violet was at Brinny Beach according to a note in TBB the Rare edition. But he closed the story before that, because he died.

 Lemony is finished. This was the last secret found in the pamphlet 13 Shocking Secrets. But the first secret was: Lemony Sincket is not who you think you are. That means that by the time the original book The End had arrived in the publisher's hands, the real Lemony had already killed himself. Someone else replaced him. Who would that person be? Like I said, this is just a hypothesis. But, you should know that Daniel Handler besides being a real person in our universe, also the name of a character in the universe of Lemony Sincket. Similar to Brett Helquist, who is also a character in the Lemony universe and is the name of a real person in our universe. We know this thanks to The UA. Daniel Handler introduces himself as the official representative of Lemony Snicket. In addition, he apparently participated in the meeting transcribed in Chapter 3 of The UA using the letter D to represent his name. He also wrote the play The World is Quiet Here with the fake name Linda Rhaldeen (anagram of Daniel Handler). All this makes me believe that Daniel Handler, the character, assumed the identity of Lemony Snicket in the universe of Lemony Snicket. So there was a great change of style in the writing of the books that were chronologically written after the end of The End because it is "another person" who is writing in Lemony's universe. It's a bit complex ... But today, Daniel Handler of our universe, is writing books pretending to be Daniel Handler of Lemony's universe, who in turn is pretending to be Lemony Snicket who in turn is dead.

But the right question is: What made Lemony so sure that Beatrice was dead when he wrote the letter to the editor at the end of TBL? Lemony may have witnessed her death. He would not believe the news about Beatrice's death. But nothing indicates that Beatrice was ill. In fact, in the BB to LS # 5 letter, Beatrice says she would try to find her children again. She said:

"I owe my life to them, and now that we have been separated, I will not rest until I find them again."

So Beatrice was full of life when she met Lemony. But after that meeting, she was filled with death. After this meeting, Lemony started a path that led to his suicide. Now think of Lemony. Lemony initiated a Schism believing that the evil must be fought with all the forces. In fact, in the site of Lemony Snicket we find a phrase written by him:

"Crimminals should be punished not fed pastries."

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The Beatrice letters.

i don't think i count because omg i haven't read or thought about keroro gunso in like ten years and I remember almost nothing but: yes

Oh you definitely count, it's been like... five years, for me.