Larger	The Insult & Curse Book Author: Michelle Lovric
	Book Information Publisher: Chicago Review Press Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 0 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9781556525148 - ISBN-10: 1556525141 Publication Date: 9/1/2003 Pages: 80

A celebration of the creative language of abuse, insinuation, defamation, and damnation, this book includes colorful and complicated insults and curses from around the world and through many ages. These "scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts," as William Shakespeare put it, come from such luminaries as Mark Twain, John Donne, Napoleon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lord Byron, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Ovid, and Shakespeare. Some of the gems include: "You mean those clothes of hers are intentional?" (Dorothy Parker); "You're enough to try the patience of an oyster" (Lewis Carroll); "Hit your head on a corner of tofu and die!" (Japanese curse); "You have a head, and so has a pin" (Jonathan Swift); "Carnality and concupiscence, out of control and wild as mares on heat, shall carouse about your fevered organs" (Horace); and "I had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it" (Groucho Marx). The perfect gift in a classy package, this riotous collection also includes 20 peelable insult and curse stickers.