Comments | literarytattoos: Douglas Adams , Audrey Niffenegger, placement?

dontx_xpanic in literarytattoos

Douglas Adams , Audrey Niffenegger, placement?

Oct 20, 2009 16:19

Hey all! This is my first official post, but I've been watching with community religiously for ages! Currently I only have one tattoo: the word "forty-two" on the inside of my left wrist, inspired by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This has been my favorite book since I was about 9 years old and my mother would read it aloud to me, and it ( Read more... )

placement help, douglas adams, audrey niffenegger

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dontx_xpanic October 20 2009, 20:51:46 UTC

!! That's awesome, I was starting to think I was the only one who found Niffenegger's book tattoo-worthy! What are you planning for the DA tattoo?

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dontx_xpanic October 21 2009, 02:07:47 UTC

I thought about "world enough and time" for quiiite awhile after studying Marvell in Freshman English haha. Fantastic quote, made even better by Niffenegger's use of it :)

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marycatherine October 20 2009, 21:02:38 UTC

I've thought about here and now, but for Jonathan Livingston Seagull:

If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"

dontx_xpanic October 20 2009, 21:08:24 UTC

I haven't read Seagull, but I'm definitely going to soon...that quote is beautiful! Ever since I started thinking about "here and now" as a tattoo it seems like it pops up everywhere :)

marycatherine October 20 2009, 21:12:58 UTC

it's a great book. my mom gave it to me before I left on a 5 week long hiking trip and it was the only book that came back home with me.

kissedbyarose21 October 21 2009, 00:01:29 UTC

That is 100% my favorite quote from JLS. Great choice.

spooky_xphile October 20 2009, 22:55:57 UTC

I'm planning on getting "Time is nothing" somewhere. I love that book!

For "Here and Now" I would say opposite wrist of your Douglas Adams. It could work on your foot especially if you want to add.

That's all I have for right now.

appleinacastle October 22 2009, 06:45:43 UTC

"Time is nothing" is my favourite line from this book!

opti_missed October 20 2009, 23:13:27 UTC

I have a Douglas Adams tattoo! It's on this community somewhere, but it's script on my ribs that says "mostly harmless"... I'd eventually like to get "don't panic" and a Babel Fish, as well, but one tattoo at a time, right?

queenofissues October 20 2009, 23:54:11 UTC

I love your idea! I think it'd be cool to get "Here and Now" in a script near the hip bones, but that's just me.

And this book has gorgeous quotes. I've been considering getting "Nothing can mar our perfection" or "Love the world and yourself in it".