hedgehog
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Tue Nov-21-06 12:43 PM
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Some questions about Norman Mailer: |
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Why did he have to use the word "fug"?
If he was so insistent on imitating real speech, why did he settle for "fug"? Why not a simple damn or hell?
How silly must he feel today about using the word "fug"?
Will he ever issue a revised version of the Naked and the Dead using the word fig (as in Oh, fig!)?
Has he gotten into so many fights over the years because any one who uses the word "fug" has to prove his manhood?
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Tue Nov-21-06 12:49 PM
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It is a word, and I have to ask why you put it in quotes as if it wasn't?
And for any that don't know what it means it is A heavy, stale atmosphere, especially the musty air of an overcrowded or poorly ventilated room
the word actually describes that event rather well...
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Tue Nov-21-06 01:54 PM
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2. If you mean "The Naked and the Dead," it was published in 1948--he had to |
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Edited on Tue Nov-21-06 01:54 PM by lulu in NC
find a substitute that was acceptable but immediately comprehensible.
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Tue Nov-21-06 02:38 PM
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3. I am just amused by the notion of someone so macho that he had |
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to prove he knew what word was really used rather than observe the convention of substituting a milder explicative.
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Tue Nov-21-06 09:08 PM
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4. I think he was trying to be more realistic than conventional (conventional c.1948). nt |
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