Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Literary Tattoos are Cool!

I'm going to get a literary tattoo. Only problem is, I can't decide exactly what should grace the ample contours of body. And then there's the questions of location, font, etc.  Here are some possibilities. Feel free to pony up some suggestions of your own. Get out the books. 

The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Certain things they should just stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway. 

- J.D.S.

Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with ah kmnife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is. 

- Joseph Heller

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. 

- Joseph Heller

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Frank,
How about this one?
For I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.

-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot

Frank Santos said...

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?

***

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

***

I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Salty Miss Jill said...

I wish I were clever enough to come up with a suggestion. How's this:

'I should have been
a fish in a bottle of booze'
-'A Fragment'
Orhan Veli (Turkish Poet)

(I was thinking of getting a tattoo of one of the drawings from 'Harriet the Spy', myself.)