I notice also that the penmanship is scraggled - almost as though the editor has been shot with a bullet in his good shoulder and must write with his wrong hand.
The writing is also almost wraith-like, eerie.
Dunno.
Does every copy of IJ come like this?
With mysterous scrawl?
I feel special.
Maybe it's just your/my copy. I'll check my other copy (which, strangely, I found at the side of the road one day) when I get back to my place later today.
ReplyDeleteYou found IJ at the side of the road? Very cool. The book is like so many of Ennet House and dare I say Enfield Tennis Academy - rejects?
ReplyDeletePerhaps the Wraith left it for you? A sign?
Not a mark in the book - except for two letters - "SP" - where a period should be.
The person who left/lost the book was attentive enough to correct it for spelling/grammar but not caring enough, moved enough, to inscribe their name in it (should it get lost (or borrowed for too long)).
Hmm - lost book or rejected book?
Hmm2 - Enfield academists (Hal?) - dumped-off, unloved, parentless, alone (crying), learning to supposedly master one game, take their talent to the optimal level; making their talent shine?
Alone?