Mr. Poe takes the Baudelaire orphans to their new home on 667 Dark Avenue. The street is dark, as light is "out", or unpopular. The elevators in the apartment building are not working, as elevators are "out", leaving the Baudelaires to walk up several dozen flights of stairs to the penthouse where the Squalors live. Jerome Squalor welcomes the children to their new home.
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He is first seen in "The Austere Academy" where he frees Larry from the walk-in refrigerator that Count Olaf trapped him in. In "The Ersatz Elevator," Jacquelyn enlists Jacques Snicket to bring Olivia Caliban into their organization. While Esmé is kept busy by Larry at Café Salmonella, Jacques and Olivia sneak into the Squalors' building to find Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. When Count Olaf in the form of Gunther holds an auction, Jacques and Olivia attend it.
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In the fourth book, The Miserable Mill, Dr. Georgina Orwell is a reference to British author George Orwell. Orwell finished his famous book 1984 in 1948, and in the sixth book, The Ersatz Elevator, it is not clear if the skyscraper in which Esmé and Jerome Squalor live has 48 or 84 stories. The Squalors' names reference Jerome David "J. D." Salinger and his short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor, while in an auction on which the plot hinges, Lot 49 is skipped, i.e.
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She often wears ridiculous outfits that she considers stylish. Lemony Snicket mentions that Esmé and Beatrice Baudelaire met for the first time at a Thursday tea party. While the Baudelaires are living with the Squalors in The Ersatz Elevator, Esmé conspires with Count Olaf while he is still in disguise as the auctioneer Gunther. After the "In Auction", during which Olaf in the disguise of Gunther completes a complicated scheme to "launder" the kidnapping of the remaining Quagmire triplets, he drives away with her in his truck.
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Her role is expanded where she first appears as a school librarian at Prufrock Preporatory School that is often disliked by Vice-Principal Nero. After the Hook-Handed Man makes off with Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, Olivia walks off with the book on secret organizations. After Olivia visits Mr. Poe and attempts to show him the book in "The Ersatz Elevator" while also mentioning that Vice-Principal Nero put her on an unpaid leave, Jacquelyn enlists Jacques Snicket to bring Olivia into the organization. While Larry keeps Esmé busy at Café Salmonella, Olivia accompanies Jacques into searching the Squalors' building for Duncan and Isadora.
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"And so the record proceeds, horror after horror, unalleviated by any of the splendors which other painters have been able to discover in war; for, significantly, Goya never illustrates an engagement, never shows us impressive masses of troops marching in column or deployed in the order of battle .... All he shows us is war's disasters and squalors, without any of the glory or even picturesqueness."Huxley, 12–13 The Disasters of War is the second of Goya's four major print series, which constitute almost all of his most important work in the medium. He also created 35 prints early in his career—many of which are reproductions of his portraits and other works—and about 16 lithographs while living in France.Wilson-Bareau, Chapter 2. See also the listings of Harris catalogue numbers for all the prints on 100–106 His first series, the 80-plate Caprichos, were completed between 1797 and 1799 to document "the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and ... the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual."Hughes (2004), 181. Wilson- Bareau, 23–26 for dates. Caprichos was put on sale in 1799, but was almost immediately withdrawn after threats from the Inquisition.
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Whitecross Street Market, looking northwest Whitecross Street Market, having been in existence for over 150 years, is one of London's oldest markets. The market was formerly one of London's great Sunday markets, and dates to the 17th century; although today, trading is largely limited to lunch times.London Sunday Trading in Social Investigation/Journalism - Curiosities of London Life, or Phases, Physiological and Social of the Great Metropolis, Charles Manby Smith (1853); accessed 13 April 2009 During the mid-19th century, the street vendors and costermongers operating out of an informal street market in Whitecross Street came to public attention following the publication of a series of articles written by journalist, James Greenwood, and published in the Pall Mall Gazette. Greenwood's articles presented a brutal picture of the lives of London's poorest classes and caused a public sensation. Koven, S., Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp 31-36; Jones, P.T.A., "Redressing Reform Narratives: Victorian London's Street Markets and the Informal Supply Lines of Urban Modernity," The London Journal, Vol 41, No. 1, 2006, pp 64–65 By the end of the 19th century, the area had become a by-word for poverty and alcohol, and it became known as Squalors' Market.
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