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05-18-2004, 01:38 PM | #1 |
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5/18/2004: Story in tattoos
Thanks to axlrosen for sending this along. Author Shelley Jackson wrote a 2,095-word short story and recruited people to have one word from the story tattooed on their bodies. The story is published only on human hide. full news story Jackson's website |
05-18-2004, 02:16 PM | #2 |
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She should have written a story from preexisting tattoos. I'm always up for a good book about how Lynyrd Skynyrd Rules! or about Bad Dawgs.
I'd hate to be one of the 200 people running around with "the" on their forearms now. |
05-18-2004, 02:22 PM | #3 |
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I think being a preposition person would be cool.
I wonder if each person got to choose their own font. The picture suggests that they didn't. I also wonder if any attempt will be made to replace words as they, um... stop existing on live people. I'd hate to get to the end of the story and not know how it ends because the last 25 people were buried. |
05-18-2004, 02:25 PM | #4 |
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Also, it would be cool to be the end of a sentence.
"phonebook!" is much cooler than just "phonebook". |
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05-18-2004, 03:02 PM | #6 |
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If it is a story about chemistry, it might have a word such as 1,1-diethyl-3-thiobenzoylthiourea. That might be cool. But it's still one big gimmick.
Didn't somebody do this already but on sheep rather than people? |
05-18-2004, 05:22 PM | #7 |
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They better hope some rabid book collector doesn't get a list of the people involved.
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05-18-2004, 05:24 PM | #8 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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05-20-2004, 03:05 PM | #9 |
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Good Thing Shakespeare did not thought about this.
ex. Oh, Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore ... thou Romeo. (where do you want it, literally) "Art" died 5 days before publishing.
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