Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Y-Gens' commitment to literature

Click here: Literary tattoos - fashion or a whim?

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laught and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”
from Love me, love my fool: Thoughts from a psychoanalyst’s notebook by Theodore Isaac Rubin.

Dat's a lotta shit to have to laser away later. How about using henna?

Here're a couple more they might want to sear into their flesh: "2X2 equals 5 also has its charm" or "suffering is the root of all consciousness" The Underground Man-----Dostoyesky

Baudelaire's "Always be drunk" monologue

Two from Lear: "I am a man more sinned against than sinning" and "That way madness lies"

And the beginning of Moby Fish: "Call me Fishmeal."