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  • Harsher in Hindsight: In his 1947 novel The Scarf the protagonist fantasizes about going up onto a rooftop with a high-powered rifle and shooting at anyone and everyone he can. Editors originally removed this as too nasty and outrageous, but it was put back in the 1966 and subsequent reissues after Charles Whitman's shooting spree.