Consider this excerpt...
"But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written "Fuck you" on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them - all cockeyed, naturally, what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till he was good and goddam dead and bloody. But I knew, too, I wouldn't have the guts to do it."
Censored copies were widely distributed that only had "YOU" instead of "FUCK YOU" in there and the whole thing took a completely different meaning to me because the first time I read it, I read a copy (Published by Pengiun I think) that didn't have the "FUCK YOU" only a "YOU" in the book. I was a bit confused but made up some sort of explanation. |
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