Whoa! This is a lot of excellent deductive work. If I’m missing any text references, fellow Snowflakes, please please tell me!Īnd – can you tell us? What are Baz, Penelope, and Agatha’s birthdays? (Then again, maybe it did happen between Sept-Dec, and no one paid any attention.
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So, I’ll guess sometime between January and August 1997. So I’m guessing sometime between late December/January and August 1st/12th, 1997.įor Agatha we don’t know anything more specific, I don’t think, than “between September 1st 1996 and August 31st 1997.” (Again, unless she started school a year early, or a year late, for some reason.)īut the same goes for Agatha – surely if her birthday were between September 1st and Christmas, we would’ve heard SOMETHING about it, because it would’ve happened during the story. Though I suppose it’s possible that Simon just isn’t very good with dates.) I-mention-Baz-literally-773-times, thank you for your work collating those numbers. (In fact, I would venture that it is CERTAIN, Mr. So – sometime between September 1996 and August 12th 1997.Īlso, it seems logical that if Baz’s birthday were at the beginning of school/pre-Christmas (especially while he was missing) that Simon would’ve mentioned it. Seems like something a five year old might remember.) (Probably, I would guess, not in the week or two before, or he might have said something like, it was just after my birthday. So he was born sometimes before August 12th, 1997. He was five when the Watford tragedy happened, on August 12, 2002. So her birthday is sometime between June 21st and the middle or end of August, in 1997. But I was only 11.)” ch 23, p 131) Which was in August of 2008. (“Most magicians can remember exactly where they were that day. And she says she was 11 when Simon first went off. Penelope is younger than Simon – she says her mom was pregnant with her when the first dead spot appeared (ch 46, p 251) – so her birthday is some time between June and September of 1997. If the cutoff for starting school is “birthday before September first” (and assuming that none of them started school a year early or late) then that means they would have been born between September 1996 and August 1997. (Did I look this up specifically for the year? Ahem.
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“Bicho raro” also means a weird person like you said, but in various Latinx countries that meaning is almost always a bad thing. So in fact, she is appropriating Latinx culture with this new book and her weird Spanish translated words that to be honest, seems like she just passed them through Google Translator and clapped her hands and that’s it. She is writing a magical realism book when magical realism has been written by many Latinx authors and it is from Latinx culture. (I believe the book’s characters’ culture is Mexican). We cannot take Portuguese in consideration because this book is about Latinx representation and Latinx culture in Hispanic countries. “Bicho Raro” doesn’t mean “Strange bird” in any way of how Spanish works.