RE: RARA-AVIS: A Few GM Books

From: Mark Sullivan ( DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 05 Aug 2002


miker noted:

"I gotta laugh at that. "Mother-raper" was a commonly used phrase in Himes's _Cotton Comes To Harlem_."

That phrase is used throughout the Harlem Cycle. Mother-raper actually sounds worse to me than what it replaces. Due to the ubiquity of motherfucker now, it often seems more punctuation than a curse. Because it's non-standard, I stop to think about the literal meaning of mother-raper.

I wonder which would get you beat up quicker in a bar.

Mark

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