/lit/ - Literature

Why?

>>6362303
plz don't, its the sign that you think you're a literary masterperson cuz u read col49 and think that pynchon is the greatest ever. its the "hipster" symbol of literature

>>6362303
>Do you have any tattoos?
Yes.
>Or tattoos that relate to literature?
Yes, a huge cock all across my back. It is there to represent Hegel.

>>6362307
I like the book. Also, it is relatively small, so it will cheaper and will not hurt so much (or at least, I hope so)

My favorite literary quote on tattoos:

>You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28

>>6362324
>>6362324
Holy shit ain't you a faggot

>>6362315
That's absolutely beautiful

>>6362324
Let's be honest, you want it so hipster chicks will notice you read a book.

>>6362303
Friend (he's the guy in the posted pic on the current lit critique thread) has on his right forearm that thing from Infinite Jest: '...'

I've got it as a tramp stamp

>>6362332
Please. Cheap ass faggot

>>6362315
kek

>>6362336
Also yes

>>6362346
Do you take it in the butt?

>>6362344
ahem, the upper arm, not the forearm

>>6362344
>>6362357
Is he aware that '...' doesn't originally come from IJ?

>>6362303
It looks like two fags rubbing their dicks together after one accidentally sat on his nuts.

>>6362394
But then so where does it come from?

>>6362352
>Also yes

No, only yes.

>>6362399
I don't actually remember, but Wallace himself stated that he 'borrowed' it from some hipster pomo writer he's been reading during uni years or so

Think we can google it up

Anyone else have quotes tattooed?

>>6362395
I don't see it

>>6362413
French is my main language and this quote doesn't mean anything buddy.
I'm sorry

>>6362425
and I felt stupid for not being able to understand it despite having studied french for 2 years

>>6362418
this help?

>>6362408
http://infinitesummer.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=233#

explains it, and has someone say it's "pure DFW". Unhelpful.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/d-f-w-week-did-infinite-jest-start-out-as-an-autobiography

here we go! Argentine novelist Manuel Puig.

yeah, though, that being the case, I don't think it really detracts from the tattoo and it still has the significance as drawn from Infinite Jest and so on.

>>6362326
So I take it you also do not trim your bear or the hair on the sides of your head, you don't allow your hair to become unkempt, and you don't eat shellfish or any land animal without cloven hooves?

>>6362425
Its a quote by Camus translated to french:
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

:^)

>>6362395
please elaborate

i've spent the last 10 minutes trying to visualize this without any success

>>6362441
that didn't help at all

>>6362449
*beard
ha

>>6362455
then apparently i must descend into a deep homosexual panic if only i'm seeing that....

>>6362441
Not really. I somehow had an intuition that the balls you were referring to weren't going to be triangular, so this doesn't clarify much. It's the rest of the interpretation I have trouble identifying

>>6362440
Don't. It's an automatic translation (the dumb fuck) and really doesn't mean anything

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Not yet but I want to get one based on this from Hesse's novel Demian:

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.

>>6362450
But Camus wrote in french, no? Why not just use the original french quote?

My body is a temple

>>6362483
Oh and I also want to get one that is partially inspired by Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and partially by the Rhino Sutra (and partially an experience with salvia

>>6362526
See
>>6362449
>>6362460

>>6362407
Yeah, I know. But I was quoting Krieger from Archer

>>6362554
The other post only strengthens The Ecstasy of St Sebastian's point. If his body is his temple, then he's going to trim his beard and hair so his temple is clean and good-looking. Getting tattoos is like intentionally getting ugly scars or stretch marks.

Tattoos are merely vanity.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

>>6362643
> muh old testament

>>6362449
The dietary restrictions are explicitly lifted in the New Testament. No, I don't get undercuts. I think they look retarded, but less retarded than sidelocks, and yes I wear a beard.

>>6362413
Text tattoos are hideous. If you are getting one, make it 3 words at most.

>>6362413
never ever set foot in france/10
This doesn't mean anything

>>6362303
do it op
very unique

>>6362326
Holy shit that would make a badass tattoo.

>>6362691
>no tattoos
>dietary restriction

>>6362824

>>6362840
Okay, not as good as I thought. Maybe it should just be "Lev. 19:28".

>>6362777
>"crying of lot 49 tattoo"
And yet it still knows that "So it goes" is just as shitty a tattoo

>>6362303
The design of a temporary tattoo I had on the shoulder

>>6362843
the line break just after "I" is particularly atrocious

>>6362450
Why didn't you just take the original quote dude ?
I'm a native french speaker as well and you fucked that up, it's too bad because it is a beautiful quote wich carries immense meaning.

>>6362860
Oh that's priceless

Shit/10 reminds me of my dumbass friend who ended up with the word like tattooed twice in a row on his back

>>6362862
That pic is an old funny around these parts

>>6362892
How does the tattoo artist even fuck up this hard ?

>>6362896
Oh, okay

>>6362899
Ended a line with it and started the next line with it. This is what happens when you base yout tattoo purchases on who is brochill enough to talk about muh vidya games with.

>>6362584
Except all those rules I mentioned are found within Leviticus like the one against tattoos though.

>>6362838
>you can read

>>6362303
Fag

>>6362691
I honestly don't have too great a knowledge of biblical scripture, can you cite evidence for your claim as to the dietary restrictions? In reaearching it, I am finding many sources which contradict it, such as
http://www.giveshare.org/Health/dietarylaws.html

>>6362691
Also I didn't ask if you have a beard, but whether you trim it. Leviticus commands you not to do that either.

>>6362324
Pynchon is c list m8. youll regret it in 5 years when youre swagging it up with boccacio, chretien de troyes and anon

>>6362326
Oooooh i am shaking in fear.

Someone post the "so it goes" pic.

>>6363174
i have a "so it goes' tat, dont ruin it for me

>>6363185
>i have a "so it goes' tat
handsomemantippingfedora.jpeg

>>6363185

oh boy

>>6362840
so edgy.

>>6363197
>>6363193
I didn't know about the concept of cringe back then . I didn't even know it was a common thing, only one other person in my group of friends knew about the book.

>>6363185
post it.

>>6363174
>>6363266

>>6363266
POST A PICTURE of THIS TATTOO.

I feel like getting a two-headed cat representing the character(s) of Oscar Amalfitano and Oscar Fate in 2666

>>6363266
Oh man
Other persons have done a thing you've done
How embarassing

>>6363266
>>6363300
>>6363185
though seriously, if you find 'so it goes' personally and heavily meaningful as a phrase philosophically or whatever, you find a sort of grand emotional catharsis to it, and being reminded of it everyday is something you find enjoyable, fuck all else that connects it to plebs or so on. what matters is that you enjoy it being on your skin. what matters is you enjoy the book. what matters is you enjoy yourself.

etc., etc., it's only really cringe if you wince/cringe at it yourself, when you regret it because some other people associate it wrongly with stupid ideas (like >>6363277, fedoras and shit. it doesn't have to be like that. it's not pretentious if you're not pretentious).

>>6363315
Hey man, no need for your logic. Fuck hipsters! Amirite, guys?

Im thinking of getting this tat >>6362303

It would go good with my Vonnegut ink

>>6363185
>>6363328

chip-posting is ruining /lit/