Subject: Watermark Question Answered! Again!
From: Jive Monkey (monkey_jive@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 23:56:38 GMT
Page 25, at the bottom of the page:
"'goddam shoulders and all,' I said. We were practically"
Old Holden is telling Old Stradlater not to stretch out his hound's tooth
jacket, the one S. wore when he (later) gave Old Jane Gallagher the time in
the back of Ed Banky's car.
I found another watermark in my book, too. It says "How did these monkeys
get like this?"
andy
From: lray <lray@centenary.edu>
Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: RE: FWD: RE: Watermark Question
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:07:21 -0500
I just looked in my Little, Brown Books version of CITR and found something
that looks sort of like a watermark. However, it appears on the very first
page of the book directly after the cover of the book. All that is on the
page is the title of the book, CITR, and at the bottom one faint line that I
am still trying to make out but it is definitely a line of prose and not
copyright info or anything.---------ok so i just went and looked at the page
in a really bright light and what i can make out is:
"g_____ a__________s and all," I said we were practically"
if anyone has any clue as to possible what line this is from CITR that would
be great. I need to reread it anyway so I will be looking as well. I am
also
now looking in the rest of my Salinger books for other watermarkesque things
as I have all 4 in the LBB edition. =)
-Levi
>
>
>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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