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11/29/2005: "4-letter words"
No, I don't mean love or anything like that. I mean swear words. Before I continue, I'd like to state loudly and clearly that I am not a prude. My poetry features the familiar f-word in about 1 poem out of 10. And I'm only learning to say ffffffflower because of my 3-year old daughter (who once said to me, in all seriousness: "We don't say 'duck', Mummy, we say 'damn it'").
But I digress. The point I'm trying to make is, why is modern crime literature so full of vulgar words? Agatha had no need for them, so why do we? And it is "we". I'm busy finalising a story for the CWA anthology, and I just can't help myself. Bloody and arse are all there, mingling comfortably with the familiar f-word.
Is it just a phase?
Yvonne Eve Walus on Tuesday, November 29th 2005 @ 02:32 AM GMT [link]