premise: It is many years since my contemporaries and I got a kick out of seeing even the bowdlerized f**k in print ( in Partridge 's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 1935 ) , and fug in Mailer 's The Naked and the Dead allowed prudery to mock itself and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true .
hypothesis: Many years have passed since my contemporaries ...