Subject: Fwd: Re: Watermark Question
From: Rob Riss (sdrelist@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 11:31:58 GMT
>Rob: Did you hear anything back about this? I've looked at several
>copies I have, in old and new paperbacks and hardcovers, and have no
>idea of what you're talking about. I've seen nothing like what you
>describe, so I'm extremely curious about what you're talking about.
>Any explication you or other subscribers can offer would be greatly
>appreciated here, at least, if not elsewhere, as well!
>
Tim,
Here's the response that I got from the guy about the watermark. I'm really
not too sure what to think. The text that is supposedly watermarked doesn't
seem too "salinger-esque" to me...I'm not sure though, i'm still very
confused. Why would it only be in his copy? I don't doubt that he thinks
its real, but he did say it was his girlfriend's copy; maybe she wrote it in
there with some kind of pencil. pretty interesting though! I'll see what
else i can find out.
-rob
>>Hello Stephen and Rob,
>>
>>Thank you both for your responses to my inquiry regarding the watermark in
>>my "Catcher in the Rye" book. This is something that has irked me ever
>>since I discovered it while reading the book late one night at a friend's
>>cottage in the English countryside. However, my girlfriend purchased the
>>book at store somewhere in the Midwestern US about seven years ago.
>>Anyways, it is interesting that neither of you have heard of this before,
>>so perhaps it is something that not everyone has noticed.... So,
>>realizing that both of your resources will allow you to do much better
>>detective work than I could offer, I'll give you the information about the
>>book and see what you guys find out. Just please be sure to let me know!
>>
>>The edition was published by Little, Brown and Company, and I believe this
>>was in 1991. This is the version with the white tabula rasa cover with a
>>little rainbow streaking across the upper left corner. To get to the more
>>interesting part, the watermark appears on what I've found to be the only
>>blank page in the book after the last bit of text which reads: "Don't ever
>>tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." After
>>that is the blank page with the "watermark" at the bottom of the page. It
>>reads (and the syntax is exactly as I have it here): "sometimes. What I
>>think is, you're supposed leave" and then the next page is the back
>>cover. I have to say that I was dwelling on this late page, thinking
>>about the end of the book, and at first this statement struck me in just
>>that way...asking me to leave the book...I wasn't meant to ponder it
>>anymore--just leave it. And then, if you read the last part of the book
>>and remember that Holden decides to stick around rather than going West or
>>whatever, it kind of seems like him speaking from a later, perhaps
>>retrospective viewpoint, saying that it might have been better for him to
>>have taken off after all (which would make sense if Salinger only included
>>this little blurb in later editions, having changed his mind about some
>>things...).
>>
>>Anyways, please do see what you can find out and let me know what you both
>>think or hear from others. I don't know if it's anything, but it was
>>certainly exciting to find!
>>
>>Regards,
>>Michael Berg
>>
>>
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