Poison for Breakfast

[a:Patrick Warburton 20146450 Patrick Warburton https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] was an excellent narrator. At one point where Warburton read a passage that had the word poison multiple times I couldn't help but think of Kronk in this scene:I love Lemony Snicket and appreciated the repetition of the breakfast: tea with honey, toast with cheese, a sliced pear, and an egg, perfectly prepared. I adored the conversation with the translator and the author and of course the reverence for librarians, libraries, and literature.At one point he says, “It is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think.” Which made me think of the concept of koans, and made me smile.I already knew that the stranger come to town and the hero setting out on a journey were different sides of the same tale, but I thought it was clever to put together the rules of being mysterious and leaving things out. It made sense and was clever. To test my memory, although I would enjoy reading or listening to this again, here is a summary:After finding a note "poison for breakfast" Snicket goes to investigates the tea shop, but they are closed (around the world). This is okay since he decides that he trusts the tea shop. Next he goes to his honey supplier, who points him to the ocean, the source of the water that he used to brew his tea. He swims in the ocean. Next he visits the goats (who produced his cheese), they seem fine, and then the bakery. I recall a discussion of low hanging fruit, which must be about the pear and he talks about the 'paradox' of the egg or the chicken coming first. He ends up at the library and then finds his answer.