AS IF IT WERE PAGE 99
Saloon dedicates a section to books that we have read during this suspended period, held close with the intention of reading to divert our gaze and imagination from chats, webinars and conference calls that have flooded the computer screen and our lives with words and faces.
Why page 99? There is a widely held theory in publishing that page 99 (or 69) mirrors the quality of a book, more so than the cover, designed to be deliberately eye-catching.
We strictly adhere to the rule to avoid what happened to André Gide, who used the random method by opening the manuscript Du côté de chez Swann by Proust to pages 62 and 64, understood nothing and advised Gallimard not to publish the Recherche.
Here are Saloon’s pages 99 (or 69), with just one liberty "as if it were page 99" in case the number of pages are insufficient.