The Invention of a Curse Word
by Jerry Ratch
I saw his face. The word “fuck” began in an isolated village on a plain in Mongolia, somewhere where they made films about a dying dog lying on its side. Or the weather-beaten face of an old plainsman after sucking on a lemon for the first time. And that word began forming on his face first, then came to his lips. “Phh…phhhu…” and then it just flew out of his mouth into the wide open world. “Fuck! Ffffuuuuckckck! Fuck!”
Then onward from Outer Mongolia into the brain of mankind everywhere. And now we just can't get rid of or forget it no matter how hard we try, or even want to. Because it has become so useful. We need it more than oil. More than coal. More than religion or snow. We need it more than ever.
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Ha! Because it has become so useful!
"because if has become so useful." Indeed.
But the easy having of it has driven out the primal, private, pre-existing power of the word itself.
It's been so devalued it'll soon be used in laundry detergent ads.
On Saturday morning.
But you're right. Humanity has ALWAYS needed that word, and used to have the commonsense to hold it it in sacred, private trust, only to be used in times of actual necessity.
It's completely lost its power through over-use, and I consider that an irreplaceable loss to our very humanity, and this coming at a time when, as you say, "We need it more than ever."
Great idea. I know sometimes I use it like a spoken punctuation mark.*
Another good 'n Jerry.
F***ing brilliant.
Thank y'all!
"We need it more than oil. More than coal. More than religion or snow."
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Thanks Bill! Appreciated!