![]() I am sad that more movies never got made in that series. It was wonderfully stylish and fun, and I did not hate Jim Carrey in it. I really liked that movie, and I would have watched more of it. (Side note: The Series of Unfortunate Events movie was underrated. and less about the tragic fate of each successive guardian, though of course it was fun to watch Violet and Klaus and Sunny figure out ways to get out of their awful situations. Daniel Handler (the author’s real name) is a wonderfully inventive author - my favorite idea of his being the hotel that sorts guests by their professions and puts them in rooms with numbers based on the Dewey decimal system - but the milieux were always vastly more interesting than the characters and plot. The problem, I felt, with the books about the Baudelaires was that they didn’t leave you much place to go. ![]() Who Could That Be at This Hour? is sort of fantastic. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea. ![]() It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. ![]()
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