Friday, 12 February 2016

A very, very bad word

A very, very bad word

I said a very, very bad word on the radio. It was a career first. I may have a reputation for being loose in public, but I have crossed the line regularly enough to know, with micrometer accuracy, exactly where the line is drawn. You have to cross the line to know where it is: you have to be a gymnast to perform pratfalls. The newspaper had printed “f**k”, too timid to quote Philip Larkin’s ‘This Be the Verse’, his lament for the damage done by well-meaning parents.
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