5. Lemony Snicket refuses to offer
anything less than the
unvarnished truth about the
troubles, disappointments, and
irritations that will befall
everybody.
6. Chicken soup may be
soothing, but sometimes
only the bitter truth will
do.
8. It is always sad when someone leaves
home, unless they are simply going
around the corner and will return in a
few minutes with ice-cream
sandwiches.
12. Most schools have a system
of loud bells, which startle
the students and teachers at
regular intervals and remind
them that time is passing even
more slowly than it seems.
14. Fetching objects for people
who are too lazy to fetch
them for themselves is never
a pleasant task, particularly
when the people
are insulting you.
18. A library is like an island in
the middle of a vast sea
of ignorance, particularly
if the library is very tall
and the surrounding
area has been flooded.
22. Horseradish
Bitter Truths You Can’t
Avoid
by Lemony Snicket
Digital book trailer by
Kathryn Whitehouse
Prepared for SJSU LIBR 264
Fall, 2010
Taught By Dr. Doug Achterman
Images sourced at Karen’s Whimsy free
Victorian clip art and
http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com
Piano roll “Frogs Legs Rag” 1906 from
www.archive.org.