In consideration of current trends that aim to sanitise all potentially offensive or unorthodox content, A.B.C. Editions recognises that its title Loogie transgresses the limits of what religious and conservative fundamentalists can in good conscience consider admissible.
With a wish to nevertheless permit the novel to reach a larger audience, we are therefore making available this expurgated edition.
As noted in the book's preface, it is the author's belief that a majority of readers will find within these pages no earnest reason to bin the book - and we are therefore hopeful that oogie will be considered acceptable to individuals and potentially interested public libraries who wish to only dip a toe in hazardous waters, without running the risk of being swept away by unacceptable content.
Reader advisory: This expurgated edition of Loogie has been sanitized of its sexual explicitness and iconoclastic candidness by the simple means of erasure. As such, the text is riddled with gaps, and a few pages are nearly blank altogether. Readers are invited to take pen or pencil in hand and fill in the blanks with their own choice of words...]