Vulgar words in Tono Bungay (Page 1)
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We fought much, not sound formal fighting, but "scrapping" of a sincere and murderous kind, into which one might bring one's boots-it made us tough at any rate-and several of us were the sons of London publicans, who distinguished "scraps" where one meant to hurt from ordered pugilism, practising both arts, and having, moreover, precocious linguistic gifts.
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He was, I know now the bastard of that great improvident artist, Rickmann Ewart; he brought the light of a lax world that at least had not turned its back upon beauty, into the growing fermentation of my mind.
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"No," I said, with a sudden confidence, "damn me if you're coward enough....
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"Damn them!" said he.
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Well, that's what I do for a living-when I'm not thinking, or drinking, or prowling, or making love, or pretending I'm trying to be a sculptor without either the money or the morals for a model.
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Because the follicles are fagged.
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He delivered the last words in a shout, with his hairy hand flourished in the air.... "Damn clever fellow," said my uncle, after he had one.
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Grundy, damn him!
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damn it!" he remarked, "Walham Green!
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Damn!"
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"That chalice, damn it!
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"Damn it.
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"Going about making love indeed,-in abdominal belts!-at his time of life!"
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You can go through contemporary life fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred, your highest moment a mere sentimental orgasm, and your first real contact with primary and elemental necessities, the sweat of your death-bed.
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As for me, I was filled with a new outrageous idea, begotten I scarcely know how from this incident, with its instant contacts and swift emotions, and that was that I must make love to and possess Beatrice.
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"Damn these bandages!"
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"Oh, DAMN your social position!" she cried.
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He wants everything, damn him!
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"Damn Boom!" he said, and his eyes over his glasses met mine defiantly.
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For nearly a fortnight we two met and made love together.
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We made love.
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They go about making love.
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Everybody's making love.
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When we are making love we're lovers-but think of the gulf between us in habits and ways of thought, in will and training, when we are not making love.
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I can make love.
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I can make love and be loved, prettily.
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But I won't damn you.