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Posted by: Anonymous User (---.trentn01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: February 26, 2004 01:24AM
In my US hardcover copy of WOLP, I noticed that there's a colour plate of Jack Spratt and the Text Sea: the caption reads, "'Damn and blast!' yelled Jack. 'The Text Sea!'"
I was rather wondering if this was in all of the copies or if this was one of those giveaways. Thank you!
In the US editions of both WOLP and LIAGB there is a color plate at the beginning of each book (except the grammasite in LIAGB looks like a dilapadated crow).
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There are color plates in the front of my US book club paperback copy of LIAGB (which is essentially the same as the hardback, but with soft covers -- Jasper admired it at the book signing as it's the only edition of his books he hasn't got a copy of yet) and the US hardcover edition of WOLP. My TEA (also a book club edition) doesn't have a plate.
Glad all you guys have noticed my contributions to Jaspers fab books! Sorry you weren't madly impressed by the grammarsite though. The one I was intending to draw flew away and I was left with that damned dilapadated crow as reference instead.
Maggy
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.trentn01.nj.comcast.net)
Date: March 05, 2004 09:25PM
You've done a great job with it!! :) I'll admit, I'm not the biggest fan of the grammasite, but I *really* like Jack Spratt and the Text Sea! Great job ::applause::
^_^ I've started saying "Damn and blast!" whenever something goes awry because of that illustration! Thanks for putting it in; one always wonders what the author intended for a character's appearance anyway, and it helps.
...Well, at least, I do. Maybe my imaginotransference receptors are messed up or something. ^_^
As a calligrapher, I am always impressed when anyone can take letters and words, and combine them well with perspective illustration. So I will be studying your work carefully. Good job!
The UK hardcover edition of TWoLP has a black and white picture of the denizens of the bar down in the sub-basement with all the criminals--no color photo of Jack Spratt and the Text Sea.
I don't suppose anyone could type up the extra chapter somewhere onto the fforum, or their website, for those of us who have only got the British copy?
Actually, that's probably in infringement of copyright or something. And it would take you a while, and you'd get nothing out of it except my thanks and a lawsuit from Jasper.
But, still...(looks hopeful)
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Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment, I've always called it the Going-Under-The-Water-Safely-Device.
I read it yesterday, it's quite interesting and is indeed about the weather!
Shan't be posting it though, too long, and unfair for people who haven't read it.
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