“Well, to tell you the truth the dolly wasn’t beautiful at all; she was filthy dirty, she’d lost all her hair, and she was made of old rags. What’s more, this dolly used the most terrible bad swear words and the little girl learned every word and repeated them. ‘Who on earth taught you those dreadful words?’ her Mummy asked her. ‘My dolly’, replied the little girl” (Rame and Fo 1991:55).
Who teaches you new words, Writer?
Rame, Franca and Dario Fo 1991. ‘The Same Old Story’ in A Woman Alone & Other Plays. Trans. Gillian Hanna. London: Methuen Drama pp. 49-60
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