OME PEOPLE WERE AMUSED by the piece I did on the Bishop of the Assembly of Yahowah, and the curses in Deuteronomy 28. There was reference in that patch of the Bible to things like the scab, the itch, emerods and the botch of Egypt, all of which were recommended to me by the good bish. But even as | as writing that stuff, | knew there was a lot of other good material available and for further genius in the art of bad words, you may turn to Maledicta, the International Journal of Verbal Aggres- sion. Or to Maledicta 1982, the latest edition of the book of that name. Be warned that this stuff is not for fainthearts. There is nothing clean about it. [n the main, we are talking about scatology and kakalogia in their highest forms. Reinhold Aman, the editor of Maledicta 1982, has devoted himself to keeping abreast of curse and insults worldwide. He has culled his fruit trom 200 languages, and was inspired in part by the dullness of North America swearing. So Maledicita — literally, bad words — 1s the yournal the world swears by, and Aman calls himself a ver- bal proctologist Cook it up). HONEST MAN It the toenails of Vour soul get this by — Doug Collins contain no soil, you think there ts perverted about Aman’s work You would be mistaken. He is simply an mighfs something honest man who chooses to limn human expression as it is, rather than as some would want it to be. The greatest writer of them all put it this way in Henry IV. Part 2: ‘Tis needful that the most immodest word, » Be looked upon and learned."’ Shakespeare could spit out imprecations every bit as well as the fellow who wrote Deuteronomy. In an inter- view with the Los Angeles Times, Aman pointed admir- ingly to this passage, which | believe was thrown at Falstaff in the Boar’s Head Tavern: “Why, ve fat-kidneved rascal! Huge All of flesh! Swain parcel of dropsies! You muddy, beetle-headed, flap-eared knave! You green sickness carrion! Thou fool hunchback’s toad! Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins!"’ That says more, you have to admit, than the lifeless four-letter-word stuff you hear in our pubs. Aman, born in Austria, 1s a reformed chemist. He taught German and medieval literature at the University ot Wisconsin, took up research in cursing, and was fired, whereupon he called his department chairman a “'bor- ing ass," which was hardly i mailbox DX Civil rights denied? 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