At 11:25 AM 06/05/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>The sad thing about the overuse of fuck and similar
terms
>is that they lose their force. A good writer or
speaker
>doesn't want to squander or debilitate
words.
But the good thing is that the word begins to take on a life
of its own well beyond the original meaning, strictly because
of attempts to suppress it.
I live in a home that backs onto a small, well-treed public
park. Each summer's eve a small group of teens gathers around
a park bench about dusk to smoke, drink and shout their angst
in sentences constructed chiefly from the word "fuck" and its
derivations. Been going on for nearly 30 years now, clearly
not the same squad of kids, and I have every faith that the
tradition will endure the park's lifetime. It is hilarious.
The best of it develops a rhythm and rhyme that I've come to
think of as summer poetry, the equivalent of birdsong. And it
has resulted in rather a decent short story, if I do say so
myself.
I am convinced that "fuck" is the most expressive word in the
English language, though somewhat discouraged that its power
is evaporated by its appearance in my local newspaper.
Best Kerry
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