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(Above: excerpt from Daniel Handler and Jon Klassen’s performance/reading of ‘The Dark’)
Silly and scary moments with the man who is not Lemony Snicket
(L.A. Times—April 21, 2013)[Daniel Handler] announced to the audience that all those waiting to see Lemony Snicket had been lied to. “I don’t know why anyone would lie to children,” he droned. “Although it is fun.”
Adults and children alike laughed as [Handler], best known as [the official representative of] the author and narrator of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” began to torment Klassen about everything from his casual attire to his artistic talent. As the event moved onto a slide show prepared by the men, [Handler] belittled the illustrator’s work while glowingly praising [Snicket’s].
The only moment Klassen seemed to have an upper hand was when one of his slides about his book “This Is Not My Hat” showed a picture of a crab, which made [Handler] shout out in surprise. “Mr. Snicket is terrified of crabs,” [Handler] explained, still denying he was Snicket.
[Handler] then announced he would read “The Dark” out loud while Klassen was tasked with re-creating all the drawings from the book on a white board on the stage. [Handler] insisted that Klassen had the easier task, even blindfolding Klassen so he could experience “the dark.”
By this point, the children in the audience were on Klassen’s side and tried to warn him that [Handler] was tricking him (as well as stealing his snacks). Klassen continued to draw blindfolded, seemingly unaware of everything, but soon the audience could see that the illustrator was no longer drawing scenes from the book.
When [Handler] finally noticed what Klassen had drawn, he screamed and ran off the stage, and kept running away toward the surrounding booths without looking back. Why? Klassen had drawn a giant crab.
This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things where we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too. Sometimes we walk away from the forest and abandon a person there and never see them again. This happens every day. Every day this happens and scarcely anybody cares.
— Adverbs, Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket
04.20.13
USC Festival of Books
Love is candy from a stranger, but it’s candy you’ve had before and it probably won’t kill you.
— Daniel Handler, Adverbs
Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
FOR THE LOVE OF BEATRICE, PLEASE REBLOG TO LET THE GENERAL PUBLIC KNOW ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THE LEMONY SNICKET FANDOM DOES, IN FACT, EXIST.
A Series of Unfortunate Illustrations
In other note: Lemony Snicket is still at large, but his books are brilliant.
Olaf’s tattoo is on the wrong ankle forgive me
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