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Graylick Dramblegumper refused to quit on his book. Despite his toxicity, Graylick wasn’t a man kept easily down and was known for finishing things that he started, and so he edited. His second and subsequent edits were slightly more successful, if one considers a minor decline in lethality a success. After a bit of a skim, a careless reader could put the book down and survive, but would certainly live an horrible existence fraught with unexplained fits of psychotic wailing. This he thought was an improvement, but would later admit, was terribly difficult to market.

By the time Graylick Dramblegumper had edited enough of 'himself' out of the book to make it mostly non-deadly to all but the old and frail - it should be noted that in it's least hazardous form the book caused violent gastro intestinal difficulties, headaches, and vertigo, not unlike the effects of inhaling gasoline fumes from a plastic bag on an empty stomach in a gyroscope in the hot august sun near a rubbish tip - everyone who would had ever heard of the author had read the book and had either died, gone insane, or vanished*. Poor Mr. Dramblegumper went from an obscure, competent writer of some esteem, to a murdering, man-vanisher, who made everyone sick. Let this be a lesson to you next time you hear yourself saying, "Just be yourself" you may have killed someone you care about! If not for the love of a lovely woman, he would have had no reason to live and as you know, while Graylick edited his book, his lovely wife Alice dashed unnoticed out the back door with as much as she could carry strapped to a bicycle.

* The fourth edition, third pressing is known as the "Bermuda Graylick" edit.