Reader Series: 'The Slippery Slope,' Lemony Snicket
This is the tenth post in a series leading up to the premiere of Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' on January 13, 2017. The series will cover each of the 13 books and 'Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.' Be warned: there are spoilers ahead.
With Sunny held hostage by Olaf and Esme, Klaus and Violet must make their way up Mortmain Mountain, surviving the cold and the rather odd group of Snow Scouts. This makes the return of Carmelita Spats and the introduction of someone working with VFD. Olaf's troupe grows as two unknown villains, whom Olaf seems afraid of, arrive and begin dispensing advice and "in" cigarettes. A story of fire and ice, The Slippery Slope leads the way to deeper, darker secrets.
This time the disguise is worn by Quigley Quagmire, the missing and presumed dead Quagmire triplet. The codes, usually abbreviating to VFD, are used by nearly everyone from each direction. Through the Vertical Flame Diversion of the Snow Scout cave, Quigley intends to lead the Baudelaires to VFD. However, the suspiciously scary new villains, who burned down the VFD headquarters, give Olaf and Esme a Verdant Flammable Device, a type of cigarette that burns green smoke. Sunny uses one to signal her siblings, who have discovered the ashy remains of the VFD just below the cliff where Sunny is forced to cook Olaf's food. With Violet's cleverness, she and Quigley make it up the ice-covered cliff, and Klaus finds clues pointing to a mysterious sugar bowl (mentioned before in The Hostile Hospital).
With Sunny held hostage by Olaf and Esme, Klaus and Violet must make their way up Mortmain Mountain, surviving the cold and the rather odd group of Snow Scouts. This makes the return of Carmelita Spats and the introduction of someone working with VFD. Olaf's troupe grows as two unknown villains, whom Olaf seems afraid of, arrive and begin dispensing advice and "in" cigarettes. A story of fire and ice, The Slippery Slope leads the way to deeper, darker secrets.
This time the disguise is worn by Quigley Quagmire, the missing and presumed dead Quagmire triplet. The codes, usually abbreviating to VFD, are used by nearly everyone from each direction. Through the Vertical Flame Diversion of the Snow Scout cave, Quigley intends to lead the Baudelaires to VFD. However, the suspiciously scary new villains, who burned down the VFD headquarters, give Olaf and Esme a Verdant Flammable Device, a type of cigarette that burns green smoke. Sunny uses one to signal her siblings, who have discovered the ashy remains of the VFD just below the cliff where Sunny is forced to cook Olaf's food. With Violet's cleverness, she and Quigley make it up the ice-covered cliff, and Klaus finds clues pointing to a mysterious sugar bowl (mentioned before in The Hostile Hospital).
Despite all of this, the wealthy Snow Scout children are kidnapped, Carmelita Spats is adopted/kidnapped by Olaf and Esme, and the Baudelaires are forced to escape down the slippery slope with Quigley. Unfortunately, as is the case many times, the Baudelaires don't get to stay with their friend; the slippery slope dissolves into a flood, separating them from Quigley and rudely interrupting where he wants to meet them. The VFD appear to be losing in this curious schism but the indescript sugar bowl persists, somehow the epicenter in this entire unfortunate web.
Well-read people are less likely to be evil.
It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean that it's nonsense.
It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.
But he was not looking at the view beneath him. He was looking beside him, where Violet Baudelaire was sitting.
"The World is Quiet Here" is a phrase the Baudelaires find on an arch still standing among the charred remains of the VFD headquarters. And, for those moments, it is quiet. Snicket refers the phrase back to the feeling of entering a library, and libraries definitely seem the core strength of the VFD. Although we don't know about the missing Baudelaire parent, if they exist, or the real contents of the sugar bowl, we do know that the Baudelaires again survive, aboard a strange submarine.
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