Seen and not seen

I’ve been reading your magazine since issue eight (I couldn’t afford to before then) and for as long as I can remember there has been a message buried deep in the text, found below the names of the people who produce your magazine.

In parallel to this I’ve written a few times to Dispatches, and had a few of my letters printed. But the pleasure of seeing my name in your pages paled into insignificance compared to one day, out of the blue a good few months ago, when Edge acknowledged that a persistent few actually read the small text usually found on page six. How great too that the message was in the small text!

The message alluded to the fact that if you wrote in, referencing the fact that you read it, ‘something’ would happen.

I did, but nothing happened. Well not that I noticed anyway. It’s been bugging me ever since. I’ve been scouring the pages each month (sort of, I do read other stuff).

It’s like the path to an Easter egg in Ernest Cline’s book, Ready Player One, where Wade Watts collects a gold coin but nothing seems to happen. In fact I’ve always considered your monthly hidden message an Easter egg in its own right. Hmm.

I suppose my point or question is, did anything happen and I missed it? Even on the subscriber issue covers I couldn’t see anything. I even took a risk, of sorts, by writing in. What if something did happen and I’ll never be privy to it? Or worse, it was so obvious that I’m an utter smeghead for not seeing it? Perhaps I’m overthinking this... Anyway, I’ll let you crack on with your fantastic magazine. David Wallwork David, as you well know, the first rule of the secret club is you do not talk about the secret club. (The second rule is that there are no tangible benefits to membership of it.) Still, if it’s Easter eggs you’re after, this issue has you covered, and then some.