Ye’ know, when I started doing this I had a lengthy internal dispute with myself over the narrative voice. Not about whether it should be first or third person, or even omniscient, (how good would that be), but as to whether the narrative voice should be modified from my own rather angry invective. And I have tried, I really have tried to censor the more powerful aspects of my language, but it’s hard.
And then I found out that swearing is actually an evolutionary trait that can help reduce pain, I admit the article refers to physical pain, but I’m sure my daily mental anguish, wrought by Bowtie Tsang and his cohorts, qualifies:
People used to say to me when I was younger that swearing indicated nothing more than a lack of adequate vocabulary, but that’s bullshit. I have an expansive ideolect, but subscribe to the “Billy Connelly” school with regards to expletives:
“Show me a non swearing phrase as equally powerful as ‘fuck off’, and I’ll gladly use it.”
If my swearing offends you, please don’t stop reading, that’s like blinkering yourself to the wonderful variety of the english language; just put it down to my fucking tourettes, after all, in this world today there’s a reason or excuse for everyones behaviour.