THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (CARSON MCCULLERS) AND INVISIBLE INK

 It is known that if a message is written with lemon juice on a clean sheet of paper there will be no sign of it. But if the paper is held for a moment to the fire then the letters turn brown and the meaning becomes clear. Imagine that the whisky is the fire and that the message is that which is known only in the soul of a man — then the worth of Miss Amelia’s liquor can be understood

This is already the second formula for invisible ink we post in this blog. The first one was made by Poe in The Gold Bug. In this text, we are also told about the role of alcohol over human souls through a good image. Somenthing, by the way, that we have been able to feel last Christmas