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violet baudelaire

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A very festive day.

Most seem to be talking about Thanksgiving. There are other holidays coming up as well. Hanukkah less than a month away, too. You see, last year was enjoyable. Everyone seemed to get into the spirit. Celebrating holidays, any holiday, seem to go over well here. I was just wondering this year if there are any plans?

I'd like to biuld a manorah this year. Perhaps invite some over to light it.

Just an idea.

ooc: the code isn't actually bolded. it flows with the rest of the message, but every thirteenth word reveals a question to a certain someone.

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And very finely discussed. Even in a place as strange, unpredictable, haphazard, bothersome, and diverse as this, I am glad to see that there are a myriad of holidays being discussed. Have you recieved much of a response from any other residents of the castle, the denominations of their faith notwithstanding? I must admit, I do not quite expect most to be Jewish, Hassadic, Unorthodox or otherwise, but it would still be a welcome and wonderful surprise to be proven even slightly wrong, within any sort of rhyme or reason. Even if that is not the case, I am still glad for someone to discuss the season with.

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Most care little for denomination, religion, or sect. A culturally diverse group. I celebrated last year with some who have never even heard of it. Look at my own family. We were not the most religious, but fortunately, forward thinking, tolerant, open individuals reside here. I even celebrated a Japanese festival to remember ancestral spirits.

You will find the castle does this quite often, seeing as it vastly varies in its fickle furnishings, the world and all you know in it. We went to Paris once.

[okay, that surprises him right out of code-writing mode. he stares at the page for a moment]

Paris? Truly?

Truly. It was quite beautiful. I thought of my mother often.

[there she goes again, bringing up Beatrice. yet again, he keeps a lid on his grief as best he can]

Did you celebrate the holiday while you were in the City of Lights, then? It seems it would have been appropriate.

It was. And quite beautiful.

If I may.... What other places have you been while here, Violet?

Oh, I've lost count. It happens quite often. There was the camp for demi gods and the last change, Asiatic I believe. I'm not entirely certain though. Plus all the expeditions. I worked on a train once.

About once a month, so I've heard from several people. ... [he frowns and takes out a small blank notebook he was lucky enough to find in the library. it isn't a true commonplace notebook, not by VFD standards, but it will do in a pinch, a phrase which here means When The Castle Has Taken Away Your Most Important Resource And Research Tool In One Fell Blow]

A camp for demi-gods? ... That's intriguing. [pardon him while he writes this all down] Which pantheon?