I read a Vonnegut essay years ago about this, and about how Slaughterhouse-5, one of the first if not the first mass printed novels to use the term got banned and burned over it. If I recall correctly, he pointed out that no one could really believe he was suggesting the practice of what Adam called "mother[lov]ing" with the line, "Get out of the road you dumb motherfucker." Thought it would get a mention in the article.
So be nice to your mother, now and then have a chat/buy her candy or some roses or a brand new hat/buuuuuuut maybe you had better let it go at that/or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex, hey, you may end up like Oedipus/I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus that/End us like Oedipus Rex!
I read a Vonnegut essay years ago about this, and about how Slaughterhouse-5, one of the first if not the first mass printed novels to use the term got banned and burned over it. If I recall correctly, he pointed out that no one could really believe he was suggesting the practice of what Adam called "mother[lov]ing" with the line, "Get out of the road you dumb motherfucker." Thought it would get a mention in the article.
ReplyDeleteSo be nice to your mother, now and then have a chat/buy her candy or some roses or a brand new hat/buuuuuuut maybe you had better let it go at that/or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex, hey, you may end up like Oedipus/I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus that/End us like Oedipus Rex!
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