Memento Mori

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Tue, 07 May 2013 13:28:55 -0400

thesnicketfile: (Above: excerpt from Daniel Handler and Jon...

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:42:50 -0400

(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..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:30:24 -0400

“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

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:39:21 -0400

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..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:57:05 -0400

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it’s candy you’ve had before and it probably won’t kill you.”

- Daniel Handler, Adverbs

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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:11:40 -0400

Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:53:47 -0400

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.

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:03:24 -0400

false-spring-queen:

kforkoala: A Series of Unfortunate Illustrations In other...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:40:59 -0400

the orphans

Fiona, who broke Klaus' heart

Sunny & Ink

'the in-est auctioneer in town'

kforkoala:

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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And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may,...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:10:02 -0400

And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey.

-A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

false-spring-queen: Rebloggable by request

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:54:48 -0500

false-spring-queen:

Rebloggable by request

thesnicketfile: Can You Be Trusted? Dear Alleged...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:35:47 -0500

thesnicketfile:

Can You Be Trusted?

Dear Alleged Associate,

Please immediately listen to THIS which contains a top secret recorded conversation between Daniel Handler and myself, and see the attachment above, which depicts an undisclosed book cover.

The more people who are made aware of this classified information the better chance we have of keeping our secret.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

"My friend David and I, in our homeroom where we were taking the test, got everyone to fill in the..."

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:59:38 -0500

“

My friend David and I, in our homeroom where we were taking the test, got everyone to fill in the bubble marked “other” … and then we all wrote in “pirate,” because we thought that was funny—and it was funny. The principal looked at these oddball results of the test because it looked like [students] wanted to be different things, and then [students] took a career test and suddenly everyone wanted to be a pirate in a particular homeroom. The principal knew immediately that it was me, just from looking.

He called me in [to his office] and he said, “I know it’s you. Don’t deny it. You made everybody be a pirate.” And I said, “I want to be a pirate. I can’t help it if everyone else in my homeroom wants to be a pirate. That’s life.’

”

- Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler

Read the full story on Bookish

(via bookish)

false-spring-queen: ASOUE Couplets: “When Violet ties up her...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:15:11 -0500

false-spring-queen:

ASOUE Couplets:

“When Violet ties up her hair, / She pulls miracles out of thin air.”

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:20:06 -0500

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”

- Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via crysantha)

thesnicketfile: Daniel Handler, photographed by Martin...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:09:41 -0500

thesnicketfile:

Daniel Handler, photographed by Martin Godwin/The Guardian (2012)

"For one thing, I’m always mystified by discussions of likable characters. Characters are in books;..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:59:26 -0500

“

For one thing, I’m always mystified by discussions of likable characters. Characters are in books; you’re not going to have lunch with them. Moreover, the best books are full of trouble, so the characters are either in trouble or causing it. Most people aren’t likable in such situations.

Even if by “likable” we just mean “characters we enjoy reading about,” rather than “characters who seem like people we’d like,” then we’re not really talking about characters at all. Otherwise, the characters would be fully portable, and readers would find Lady Macbeth equally compelling in a Harlequin novel and in Macbeth. (I suppose there are people who consider Han Solo to be an equally compelling character in Star Wars novels #12 and #43, by separate authors, but, um, give me a break.) It’s like saying that the great thing about Kind Of Blue isn’t Miles Davis, but the trumpet itself. Such a compelling instrument!

Thus, character is bunk. There is plot, and there is voice, and they conspire to create an illusion we call “literature.” It is a glorious illusion and a compelling one. When a writer tells me they’re worried about a character they usually mean there’s a flaw in the plot, or the prose just isn’t pulling things together.

”

- Daniel Handler (via daniel-handler)

false-spring-queen: ASOUE Valentines - Part 5

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:24:44 -0500

false-spring-queen:

ASOUE Valentines - Part 5