Whats with the dashes whenever anyone says the F-word?
Back in the fifties, it was a common convention to dash some of the profanities, but especially the ‘F-word.’ In Goldfinger, for example, Bond tells Goldfinger to go —- himself: without even including the ‘F’ in it! I elected to do this for f— and s–t, but not the others, since I believe they might confuse the reader (You bloody w—–r! would baffle most people). Since the book takes place in the fifties, I thought it best to write it as if it were the fifties–it seemed quite jarring to me to read the actual word ‘fuck’ in the historical context of the fifties, when it was, thankfully, not as widely spoken or written as it is now.
