Donald Trump's emphatic assertion of his right to freedom of screech, particularly with regard to his use of what in euphemistic anglophone parlance is referred to as the 'F word', would have made little sense or censorability to Norman Mailer.
In his 1948 debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, published when the writer was 25 years old, to convey the blood-and-guts viscerality of warfare, Mailer's gritty dialogue was loaded with the explosive impact of the F word. However, his publishers felt that discretion was the better part of vulgarity, and amended the spelling of the 4-letter word to the 3-letter 'fug', with the unintended consequence that the young author's characters seemed to be enveloped in what the dictionary describes as a mental or physical miasma of a dense and oppressive atmosphere, rather than being in a state of mortal stress which compelled the release of verbal ejaculation.
