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Originally Posted by chlorine
A question to those who have read For whom the bell tolls: my copy has the word 'obscenity' used whenever a character uses a swear word (for instance: "I obscenity in the milk of thy mother"). Is that a feature of the original text, or do I have a prude edition?
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The copy I just checked does the same thing. From what I saw when I skimmed the text surrounding the occurrences of this substitution, it appears to be a deliberate style choice by the author, but I could be mistaken in that interpretation.