As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can´t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school´s motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die."
This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket´s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.