Literary exercise

Indulge me in a little literary exercise. It involves a four-letter word that starts with ‘f’, ends with ‘k’, and is not ‘fork’.
The idea is to insert the word in every three-syllable word you use, for a day. Of course, you can, and will probably have to use the word in its verb or adverbial form. So, for ex-f***ing-ample, you need to be in-f***ing-volved with the language to know enough words with three syl-a-f***ing-bbles for this to work. After about half a day you almost expect Guy Ritchie to come out from somewhere and shout cut!

Literary legends

Some are writers and some, storytellers. Have I said this before? It sounds a bit déjà vu-ic. I probably will harp on this everytime I come across one or the other. You see, very few are both. Those that are, are the true literary legends. Nobel Prize winners for literature should be judged by this yardstick, not by body of work. Rushdie - great writer, awful storyteller. Jeffery Archer - great storyteller, decent writer; as is Khaled Hosseini. I am struggling to think of one who is both – Shakespeare, Joyce, Naipaul? Maybe I haven’t read enough. Any suggestions?