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Sukumar Ranganathan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:02:00 GMT

Under Cult Fiction

Sure, this newspaper has a rule that guides the usage of the f-word, and it allows the whole think to be spelt out (what else can fxxk be? Fork? Flak?) if it is part of a quote or the name of a book. Well, Fuck is what Martin Rowson's amazing comic book (which is largely built around one word) is called. The book is simply the history of the world told through wonderful illustrations and one word -- and I think it's brilliant because no other word sums up things quite as fittingly.
Rowson deals with everything from the Big Bang and the invention of printing to the end of the world.
One of the most amazing word plays involving the f-word is the title of the book Fup. Written by Jim Dodge, this is a book about a duck called Fup (say Fup Duck aloud a few times and you'll understand the word play I'm referring to).
Fup isn't a serious let-me-show-you-the-way book the way, another book about a bird, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is.
It is a fun book, and, arguably, the best I have read on life and dying.

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