I feel compelled to scribble a few notes in the back wash from the recent brouhaha over at Mr Bynkii's site (I wont link to it, I am sure you have all seen it)
Others can and will comment on the whether the sentiments expressed have value or not and I am not joining that particular debate, however having read Mr Bynkii's missive I am left with a feeling of dissatisfaction at the style and particulary poor use of expletive gymnastics he and his fellow travellers used in this post .... where has creative profanity gone?
Now as my more astute readers will be aware I do like a string of well formed, creative profanity. You may argue that profanity of any sort is not big and is not clever and yes that argument does hold some water in polite society. However an expletive in the hands of an artist can be used to create word pictures that clean and sturdy metaphor or muscular but inoffensive similie can never hope to achieve.
Profanity, like salt improving a under seasoned soup, improves the flow of the text. The Bard himself, old Billy Shakespeare was not above slipping in the odd expletive into his plays, although he did it with style and finesse. His audience's picked up on these at once and no doubt tittered and guffawed in equal measure. For example Malvolio slipped this line into one of his speeches
"These be her very c's, her u's, and her t's, and thus she makes her great p"
or when Hamlet makes reference to "Country matters" as he pointedly lays his head in Ophelia's lap it is fairly obvious what he is getting at and on what syllables the emphasis should be laid!
Mr Bynkii has his fellow travellers have fallen into the trap of believing that simply sprinkling "fuck" into a sentence shifts the energy of the sentiment they are expressing to level where we gasp at his prowess. But no! He lacks the panache and verve of one who is truly profane. Alas, his writing style appears to be driven by a pair of shite encrusted underpants lurking in the linen basket of his imagination. What makes matters worse it appears they were worn by a doubly incontinent syphilitic fuck wit who has all the inventive skills of a scatological sybarite licking the puckered arsehole of mediocrity .... and his goatee makes his face look like a baboon's arse.
