Welcome to Lust and the Use of the F Word We authors are strange birds. Especially if we publish via the Internet. We can never be certain who is our readership, nor who will be reading our output in the future . . . this is especially true when potentially most of our audience arrives to our literature via search engines and Net listings, typically Yahoo, Google, Alta Vista, Lycos, and whatever the future brings in terms of helping your work being located. And everything you circulate via the Web becomes a permanent fixture in our post-modern world, forever accessible by a wide public. So we tread a thin line regarding a) "political correctness" which I prefer to disregard, and b) the use of widely acceptable language -- G rated. So while I encourage my readers to communicate with me, especially to express disagreement with my points of view, and I like to put up exactly what they write, unedited, I was a bit worried when Ezra wrote regarding his view of meat consumption . . . Because . . . yes he did -- he used the F word! This may get me into hot water.
Here's what he wrote [with my comments suitably displayed]: I do understand you, I mean my sister-in-law is a vegan (wasn't that an alien race in Star Trek? [Could be -- I never was a Trekkie, but I believe Vargas was a monthly feature in Playboy, and Vogon poetry will kill you if you haphazard to listen to it while hitchhiking the galaxy -- it has been described as "the third worst poetry in the Universe"]). And we do her fairly reasonably whenever she graces our shores (she lives in LA-LA Land these days).
For those who didn't pick it, Ez's F word has three letters, so it is OK for general audiences after all. The letters are F - A - T. Yes, this fortunate man is one of my readers, and my diatribes on rotund people sent him running to his physician who promptly put him on a medically supervised crash diet and his girth is now but a fraction of his height -- and not equal to it as previously. Really -- I am a witness.
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