Re Sexual descriptions

[Skip Wolfe]

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:17:46 -0500 " Paul Mackin" <mackin at allware.com>
writes:

>Earlier ('47??) in _The Naked and the Dead_, Mailer had resorted to
>"fug" to render that essential WW II epithet.

And interestingly, I think this worked to the book's benefit, reducing
the word from a shocking (and therefore distracting), never-seen-in-print
obscenity to the innocuous, meaningless, ubiquitous sound that it is
among GIs everywhere (I know, I was one -- the often joked-about, and
sometimes realized, fear being that one would go home on leave and say,
"Pass the fucking peas," in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner).
	Skip