Subject: RE: FWD: RE: Watermark Question
From: lray (lray@centenary.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 20:07:21 GMT
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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