/lit/ - Literature

get these lines from Lord Byron's The Destruction of Sennacherib (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Destruction_of_Sennacherib):

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed:
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

be sure to come back and post pics!

assuming that's an allusion to Poe's The Raven, why is it in flight? the damn bird perched upon a bust of Pallas (i.e. Athena) the whole time, which is how you're gonna want that tattoo drawn if you want people to get your reference. otherwise they'll just assume you're into native american spirituality or whatever.

or are you referencing something else

>>1942622

>filename
>harper_lee

Just the silhouette on To Kill a Mockingbird. Sentimental book, etc.

Though lines from "Cannibal Lee" was a close second

i'd so get the cover of gatsby tattooed on me somewhere if i was into getting tattoos but i'm not

>>1942625
filename is hidden, at least on my end.

I love TKAM, though. I don't really like tattoos, but if you're gonna get one, that's pretty cool I guess.

"Cannibal Lee?"

>>1942625
filename is hidden, at least on my end.

I love TKAM, though. I don't really like tattoos, but if you're gonna get one, that's pretty cool I guess.

"Cannibal Lee?"

Anyone with half a brain will see engraving your skin for decorative purposes as unforgivably tasteless, and the exploitation of the good art as a travesty.

Just letting you know how it is.

>>1942651
Lol ugh. I don't see why people have to hate on others for getting tattoos. If you don't want one, nobody's forcing you to. Some people like them.

>>1942651
Hey Handsome, how's it going?

>>1942654

some people are culturally degenerate.

>>1942656
hi tommo, not too bad.

i'll be in the club tonight.

>>1942657
Well don't dwell on it, just get on with your own life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI

>>1942611

Get a more interesting, colour tattoo.

>>1942661

Of course I will, but thinking tattoos are anything more than a primitive, egocentric expression of insecurity at the expense of genuine art is indicative of a specific, retarded, mindset.

Nobody with an ounce of intellectual weight would get a tattoo.

It's something of aesthetic suicide and used only for attention. For example, this thread.

You should get this pic of Dean Moriarty tattooed on your chest.

>>1942669
Did anybody in this thread say that it was?

>>1942669
I've always though of tattooing as taking possession of your body, altering it from it's natural state in order to state "I am more than the sum of my genes"
also, Truman Capote liked guys with tattoos...he had a massive boner for those guys in In Cold Blood...don't even try to say he didn't

>>1942669
> a primitive, egocentric expression of insecurity

souns like what you're doing right now

>>1942688
>>1942669
also
>at the expense of genuine art

what are you even talking about?

>>1942686

The innate creativity of the universe is far more beautiful.

>"I am more than the sum of my genes"

Sounds like teenage angst.

>>1942692
>The innate creativity of the universe is far more beautiful.

to you and me but not to everyone. jeez

>>1942686

This is what cultural degeneration does. Another consequence of the hyper-sexualised attention centric culture that spawns people who believe that staining you skin with ink is the only way for people to see you as a creative individual than another deterministic husk.

The irony is that everyone outside of your social universe will see you as exactly that.

>>1942688

NO U xD

>>1942689

By tattooing your body with words from books you cheapen the value of the literature into a pretentions adolescent display, a shallow mechanism for getting attention and subverting your social insecurities.

>>1942692
Not a teenager, not an Emo. I have two tat's, each one from a different city I've lived in. Making a collection so when I'm an old man I can say "I got this one in London, this one in Berlin..." etc. I see them as a visual history of my life. Also, although the phrase "Innate creativity of the universe" sounds clever, it doesn't actually mean anything, as creativity requires some degree of conciousness. The universe can't be innately creative because it isn't concious...it's just space and the matter within it. Nice try though. 4/10

>>1942700
it takes almost as much effort to link words in an entirely vacuous fashion as a meaningful one, so you've gone to some effort I guess

>>1942700
I agree with everything you are saying.

>>1942700

OP here

I am getting this post tattooed as well

>>1942700
>you cheapen the value of the literature

Lol oh wow.

>>1942710
hurrr lol u must be gay 2 lyk literature lol who reads!?!?!

>>1942706

>Not a teenager, not an Emo

The fact that you mentioned this tells a lot about who you are.

>as creativity requires some degree of consciousness

Oh god, please be a troll

>>1942712
lol what
I don't have a tattoo and am not interested in getting one but some of you are seriously being aspies about this.

>>1942706

why didn't you learn or buy something meaningful?

At least then you'll have something substancial to talk about when you are showing off where you've been.

The only /lit/ related tattoo I would consider is getting Bruno Schultz's Auschwitz number on my forearm.

>>1942706
>an Emo
You don't have the slightest fucking clue what you're talking about

>>1942717

>meaningful
>substantial
>[everyone else will see you as a tool] paraphrasing
>pretentions adolescent display
> shallow etc. etc. etc. etc.

i'm seeing a lot of opinion here. A lot of hilariously overreactive opinion.

>>1942700
Loving the presumptions you're making about me! My tattoos are not in view 99% of the time. Most people wouldn't guess I even had them.
I think talking about people being 'creative' is bullshit, plumbers and businessmen are all creative within their field (they create something that wasn't previously in existence, be it a U bend or a multi national corporation) but to use your own parlance for the sake of this argument... People see me as a creative individual because of the things I create, the articles and stories I've had published, the design work I do professionally...I've never seen a guy with a tattoo and made any kind of presumptions about them, and I certainly don't think of myself as cool or whatever for having them. You need to take the stick out of your arse.

>>1942715
Creativity inherently implies intent, a creator. Please explain why this is wrong.

>>1942745
actually, it doesn't imply intent, as things can be created by accident. Other than that you're right

>>1942749
hahaha because creation is the same as creativity hahahahahahaha

Gonna get Kafka's face tattooed over mine, I think.

CONTENT THAT I CAN BREATHE

>>1942750
sorry D and E, too clever for me...please tell me in your inimitable style why I am wrong and you are a genius

>>1942752
honestly dude try to think of one instance of unintentional creativity that doesn't make someone in the audience wat

Hello my fellow e/lit/ists,
I am an aspirant poet and writer currently travelling accross Middle East.
I come to you with a humble request.
May thee link me free audiobooks preferably on the matter of philosophy, psychology, fiction or detailed lectures upon these. Thank you very much for this good attention of yours, know that I had done my research with the few internet connection I could find in such a destructed and less advanced landscape, and due to the lack of electricity.
Salam Alaykoum, a sheperd.

>>1942758
faggot