My opinion on this is that whatever comes naturally to the
writer and his characters is OK. Evidently you can write
ultrahardboiled and noir fiction without profanity or even
without stressing the colloquial (examples: Kafka, Hammett,
Thompson, Willeford) . Just as evidently, you can work the
colloquial, including profanity, so perfectly into a work
that it is unimaginable without it
(examples: Leonard, Higgins, Constantine).
When I want to think of the perfect middle way, the name of
Joe Gores comes up. This great artist uses everything -- in
the right place and in the right amounts.
Best,
MrT
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