Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses Learn How to Spell Profanity
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Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses Learn How to Spell Profanity
the very quality that Baldassare Castiglione named sprezzatura , the aesthetic power of a gentleman, of an artist, in this case an artist in colorful and technically daring profanity.
A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives
A bit of well-placed profanity never goes awry if you pick your spot with care. Stephen King novels taught me that.
Mike Bockoven • FantasticLand: A Novel
Why do I, a fairly educated sort of a swine, take such unseemly pleasure in the guttural utterances of my largely uneducated, foul-mouthed crews? Why, over the years, have my own language skills become so crude and offensive that at family Christmas I have to struggle to not say, 'Pass the fuckin' turkey, cocksucker'? I dunno. But I do love it.