Well i don't have any definitive statement, or dictionary terminology to announce, but I can talk about a funny conversation i had with my grandma. This weekend she visited my aunt here in Austin and i asked her if she had ever read TC, and she had. She said she read it when she was about 15 and then Tropic of Capricorn. She said at the time it was banned everywhere but her brother brought it back from South America where he was stationed during the war. She said it was racy and crude, but when i asked her about the terms she said that they were common then. She was raised very conservative catholic and so it wasn't regularly that she heard them but said that they were known of ,and she felt they had the same meaning. I sort of feel they still do. I mean, if prick means penis and instead of calling someone mean a jerk i call him a dick, which is a regular thing for someone (especially college aged) to say then isn't it all the same? ...I don't know. Oh but back to grandma one time we were watching boxing and she called Lenox Lewis a pussy and i was shocked...i didn't know she knew what that meant. Her and Miller would have been BFFs.
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