tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post4681864330289825974..comments2024-02-18T03:51:09.477-08:00Comments on TRUE PULP FICTION: THE PULP CALENDAR: May 8Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-89492261368100027112016-05-08T19:54:40.548-07:002016-05-08T19:54:40.548-07:00I appreciate the insight, Walker. I notice that he...I appreciate the insight, Walker. I notice that hells and damns started showing up in Adventure after Hoffman was gone, but the magazine may well have shed readers for that reason. Does anyone know whether Adventure under Hoffman was exceptional in its language policy? I see hells and damns and the like in Argosy all the time, but I've only read that magazine from the Thirties forward, so I don't know if was more refined in the Twenties.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-37053475464717308632016-05-08T05:20:55.835-07:002016-05-08T05:20:55.835-07:00I don't think that Hoffman was something of a ...I don't think that Hoffman was something of a prude because he wouldn't allow hell and damn into the pages of ADVENTURE. He explained his stand in letter column and it was mainly because so many readers complained about the use of such language. It was a different time back then and he once had a letter from a woman who complained about the use of the word "whore" in a Gordon Young story.<br /><br />So he developed the habit of using dashes for curse words. Frankly I believe readers used far stronger curses in place of the dashes. I know I did and I'm not talking about hell and damn! Remember the fuss over Clark Gable using the word damn in GONE WITH THE WIND? And that was in 1939.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com