/lit/ - Literature

Why ask? Anyone with a lit based tattoo is only going to get shat on.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I have Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias from my shoulders to my pelvis with the metrical lines preserved.

>>2685881

Phony

>>2685892
That's actually pretty cool.
Doesn't seem very discreet, though.

sup

>>2685917
>not having the following spiraling around your leg

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex: for it is with this drive that all its beauty is bound up. More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling or receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please. This comes from the fact that they are incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything whatever, and the reason for this is, I think, as follows. Man strives in everything for a direct domination over things, either by comprehending or by subduing them. But woman is everywhere and always relegated to a merely indirect domination, which is achieved by means of man, who is consequently the only thing she has to dominate directly. Thus it lies in the nature of women to regard everything simply as a means of capturing a man, and their interest in anything else is only simulated, is no more than a detour, i.e. amounts to coquetry and mimicry.

>>2685920

Who wrote that?

An ant on my left foot, but it's from a painting.
I've been thinking for a long time about maybe getting a quote, but they change so much...

>>2685926
Schopenhauer

>>2685920
God, I love him, but Schopenhauer was so hopelessly out of touch with women. For all of his talk about empathy and the necessity of compassion, he was amazingly intolerant of women. I mean, I agree with many of his perceptions - I know plenty of women who fit his descriptions damn-near-perfectly . . so was he just limited in his exposure to women? Has modern retrospection dragged all of these intellectual and artistic women out of the wood-work?

Tens and twenties what's so funny fucking twenty ten

>>2685953
No that's just what women were like back then. Modern society has feminized men and masculinized women.

>>2685953
The guy had a bad relationship with his moms and never found love (despite trying). Bitter.

>>2685953
>>2685985
Everyone who has a negative opinion of women is just biased. That's the only way a bad opinion of women can be held, is through error, because
"Women Rock!" is the first precept of all thought.

>Without the higher powers of the imagination and reason, no eminent success can be gained in many subjects. These latter faculties, as well as the former, will have been developed in man, partly through sexual selection,- that is, through the contest of rival males, and partly through natural selection,- from success in the general struggle for life; and as in both cases the struggle will have been during maturity, the characters gained will have been transmitted more fully to the male than to the female offspring. It accords in a striking manner with this view of the modification and re-inforcement of many of our mental faculties by sexual selection, that, firstly, they notoriously undergo a considerable change at puberty, and, secondly, that eunuchs remain throughout life inferior in these same qualities. Thus man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters to both sexes prevails with mammals; otherwise it is probable that man would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the peahen.

The owner of this one will know the feel of regret in a few years.

>>2686132
Brave New World isn't nearly that thick.
Dropped.

>>2685899
>>2685871
Can't help but read these in Baby Cakes' voice.
ALSO: no ink, but for a pretty long time I thought it'd be a good idea to get my name tattooed on my forearm just in case I get hit by a truck and they have to ID my body and I didn't have my wallet on me. Also it would say I'm allergic to penicillin.

not me, but here's my friend's

There's a couple quotes I've considered but only in an idle-reverie kind of way. Maybe some Robinson Jeffers or something, idk.

I have a small marlin tattoo because I really like dreaming about lions and beaches.
I don't like people seeing it, though.

>>2686186
That's kind of nice.
Too lazy to look up the picture of the chick with "So It Goes" on her shoulder.

>>2686210
If I were you I would have gotten a rod.

>>2685917

I bet you're a real party pooper.

'Hey Anon, pretty good party isn't it'

'No it isn't. In fact we'd all be better of if we weren't ever born into this world.'

'Okay, that's cool I guess... Speak to you later, bro'

>>2686305
>talking to people
lel

>>2686305

>implying anyone on /lit/ isn't exactly like this at parties.

>>2686309
>implying I ever say anything other than "it's awfully loud, isn't it?"

>>2686305

>>2686320

This hit far too close to home. Oh god what am I doing with my youth...

>>2686334
Just because you don't have the same interests as the archetypal American teenager does not mean you're wasting your youth.

>>2686336

I ain't a teenager no more, and it's not necessarily the stuff happening in the image that's hit me; just my life (or lack thereof) in general.

>>2686341
What do you do with your free time? Do you have a job?

>>2686186

Reminds me of mine.

the joys of being 18 and obsessed with Vonnegut.

>>2686426

A guy with that on him makes frequent troll posts about the (awesome) Game of Thrones books?

NEVER CHANGE, /LIT/!

>>2686453

I never make troll posts about GOT. What are you talking about? I think I've made a post on exactly one ASOIAF thread, and that was over a month ago, and I apologized.

I saw fnord someone with a pentagon and 23 and the apple of discord each arm.