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masquerade // 2002-06-11

when i was little, one of my favorite books was masquerade, by kit williams. i was obsessed with this book. the drawings were engrossing and i spent way too much time looking through the book over and over again. my mom gave me this book and told me that it was actually a riddle, and that if i solved the riddle i could find a jeweled hare, made by kit williams and buried somewhere in england. i was way too young to solve the riddle, but i think i didn't really care.

so, today i was on the bus coming to work, and i glanced in the window of a second hand shop and noticed a children's book, animalia in the window. ok, so animalia has nothing to do with masquerade, but i got these books around the same time, and so they're linked in my head. and when i saw animalia i immediately thought of masquerade and realized i that i never found out the solution to the riddle. i knew it was solved and that the hare had been found, but i just didn't know how and what the clues really were.

so, today at work i looked up the story and read all about it and am sad to know now that the guy who found it did so not by solving the riddle of the book, but by digging around kit williams' past for information about him that would point him to the treasure. and that makes me terribly, terribly sad. now i know why there are still people out there who are convinced that they can still find the hare and that they have the real solution to the riddle.

i just ordered a copy of masquerade for myself because a few years ago i gave my copy to a boyfriend's daughter. i hope she loves the book like i did, but i kind of doubt it.

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