Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge
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Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge
These are my ideas, affirmations, dreams, visions, and opinions. I am detailing how you can begin to change yourself. The process of changing self is a journey I have been on for a long time and one worth continuing. I am asking that you join me.
The F-Word
Author: Jesse Sheidlower
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2009-09-04
We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the same impact as what was really said. Sheidlower cites this and other notorious examples throughout history, from the satiric sixteenth-century poetry of James Cranstoun to the bawdy parodies of Lord Rochester in the seventeenth century, to more recent uses by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Ann Sexton, Norman Mailer, Liz Phair, Anthony Bourdain, Junot Diaz, Jenna Jameson, Amy Winehouse, Jon Stewart, and Bono (whose use of the word at the Grammys nearly got him fined by the FCC). Collectively, these references and the more than one hundred new entries they illustrate double the size of The F-Word since its previous edition. Thousands of added quotations come from newly available electronic databases and the resources of the OED, expanding the range of quotations to cover British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and South African uses in addition to American ones. Thus we learn why a fugly must hone his or her sense of humor, why Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau muttered "fuddle duddle" in the Commons, and why Fanny Adams is so sweet. A fascinating introductory essay explores the word's history, reputation, and changing popularity over time. and a new Foreword by comedian, actor, and author Lewis Black offers readers a smart and entertaining take on the book and its subject matter. Oxford dictionaries have won renown for their expansive, historical approach to words and their etymologies. The F-Word offers all that and more in an entertaining and informative look at a word that, while now largely accepted as an integral part of the English language, still confounds, provokes, and scandalizes.
23 Odd Articles: the Best of Triond
I have been trying to get published for fifteen years. Many years ago Dorrance sent me a contract which was very enticing but very expensive. Everything including vanity press has become affordable, so I decided to go with IUniverse. But Triond and Glimmer Train took place in the evolution before IUniverse. The painting is my daughters; she is an aspiring artist. This is my first attempt at having a book. It was hard for me to concentrate. Call it attention deficit for having a wife and two kids. I thank Glimmer Train for not publishing my work. Between them and Taco Bell I almost gave up. But after browsing online publishing for about eight hours one Saturday I found Triond. They may have taken the place of the old school, black and white marble composition books from the nineteen seventies. With their permission I present twenty three articles published by them and presented by IUniverse hopefully in some coherent fashion. I look forward to providing my readers something a bit more risqu in the future, something I call anti PORN. Keep your eyes peeled.