More Literary Tattoos
We’ve blogged about literary tattoos/book tattoos before, but this yuppiepunk.org post on them is great – comprehensive, with explanation of the tattoos, rather than just pictures. I’d never seen many of these.
I really thought some of them were excellent and well done, while others left me a bit cold. It’s interesting to see what books meant the most to so many people, and what trends keep popping up.
Some of the references I see on people’s skin again and again are to Where the Wild Things Are, Kurt Vonnegut (usually Slaughterhouse Five, but others as well), Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), anything Winnie the Pooh, and Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. Lots of others are popular too, but those are the ones I see the absolute most often.
I know the girl with the “2+2=5″ tattoo. Her other wrist says “freedom is slavery.”
I have always wanted my own Petit Prince tattoo.
Kat – me too! But I find it worrisome how many terrible ones (specifically Petit Prince ones, not sure why) I’ve seen.