This morning she was thinking about how toconstruct a device that could retrieve a rock after you had skipped itinto the ocean.
First sign of Violet's intelligence, as well as the beginning of the introduction to the three Baudelaire orphans' minds.
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On gray and cloudy days, the Baudelaires had thebeach to themselves to do what they liked.
And so it is that this book series promotes introversion and encourages a love of learning. Also, all of the Baudelaires are introverts which is great.
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I’m sorry to tell youthis, but that is how the story goes.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, but this is the advertising of the book and I very much would like you to read this, thank you very much".
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Briny
The earliest usage of the word "Briny" in children's literature that I can find is in Lewis Carrol's The Walrus and the Carpenter, the full text of which can be found here.
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ot very many happy thingshappened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.
Not strictly true. Plenty of happy things happen throughout the lives of the Baudelaire orphans. This series shows us that it's the little things that count. the grim nature of the series is part of the charm of it.
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There was a town, and there was a girl, and there was a theft.
This first line is purposely misleading - it makes you think something is going on and then something else is.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping—rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more."
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Their misfortune began one day at Briny Beach.
The name of the beach is presumably taken from "The Walrus and The Carpenter" by Lewis Carrol, *According to Project Gutenberg's full-text search, the aforementioned poem is the only usage of the word "briny" when describing the word "beach".
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