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	<title>Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos</title>
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		<title>run with the hunted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Ed Casey&#8217;s Bukowski tattoo:
I&#8217;ve been a Bukowski fan ever since my pop got me started on his writing (at what was probably too early an age for such booze filled tales of debauchery). I used to have this poem printed out and stuck to my fridge to remind me that, all things considered, things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/08/run-with-the-hunted/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Burton&#8217;s Alice in Wonderland comes out in theatres today!
This is Slithy Toves&#8217; Jabberwocky tattoo:
I’ve been an Alice fan since my grandmother bought me the complete works of Carroll when I was 11. Something from Alice seemed like a natural choice for my tat, and being a voracious reader, I loved the idea of using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/05/alice-week-day-7/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Kerry&#8217;s tattoo:
This quote specifically holds a place in my heart because I think it represents the constant struggle to find yourself, and to hold on to it when you do. I&#8217;ve been asking myself this question my whole life and I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll ever have a full answer.

&#8220;Dear, dear! How queer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/04/alice-week-day-6/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 5</title>
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you&#8217;re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a teatray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat!
How I wonder what you&#8217;re at!
- &#8220;Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat&#8221; as recited by the Mad Hatter in Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland.
This is Katie&#8217;s tattoo:
Why did I pick that line?  I knew I wanted some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/03/alice-week-day-5/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 4</title>
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This is Eva&#8217;s Alice in Wonderland tattoo.




If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.  Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn&#8217;t.  And contrariwise; what it is it wouldn&#8217;t be, and what it wouldn&#8217;t be, it would. You see?




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Alice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/02/alice-week-day-4/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Tim&#8217;s tattoo:
My tattoo is of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carol&#8217;s Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland (original art by John Tenniel 1865). The Cheshire Cat is the only creature in Wonderland who uses logic. Though his words often seem mocking and bizarre, his process is always logical. To me the Cheshire Cat symbolizes the fragility [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/03/01/alice-week-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

&#8220;The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.&#8221;
- From &#8220;Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland&#8221; by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel.
This is Jennifer C.&#8217;s tattoo:
When I was young, I would lose myself in &#8220;Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland&#8221;. It was the most imaginative story I had ever heard. This illustration comes from the amazing John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/28/alice-week-day-2-3/</link>
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		<title>Alice Week, Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alice&#8217;s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll are 2 of my favourite books of all time.  Tim Burton&#8217;s Alice in Wonderland film comes out on March 5th, so it&#8217;s a perfect time for an Alice theme week!

&#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to go among mad people,&#8221; Alice remarked.
&#8220;Oh, you can&#8217;t help that,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/27/alice-week-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Fight Club Tattoo</title>
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This is Morgan&#8217;s tattoo:
The idea for this tattoo came from a quote out of Chuck Palahniuk’s book, Fight Club. The quote says, “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we are free to do anything.”
I was faced with the decision of whether or not to use you’ve/you or we’ve/we. I came to the conclusion that I wanted this tattoo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/26/fight-club-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>&#8230; and that way i&#8217;ll go content</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted Hannah&#8217;s Peter, Paul &#38; Mary tattoo a long time ago.  This is her new(er) tattoo.

&#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;ll drop my final anchor with the wind howling in my ears above and the swish of bilge below me,&#8217;  he declared, &#8216;and that way I&#8217;ll go content.&#8217; And when the time came, I&#8217;m sure he went content.&#8221;
- From Cradle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/24/and-that-way-ill-go-content/</link>
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		<title>This is what you shall do&#8230;</title>
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This is Benjamin&#8217;s tattoo:
My tattoo is from Walt Whitman.  The first printing of Leaves of Grass (and none of the subsequent printings) had a preface with the following quote:
&#8220;This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/22/this-is-what-you-shall-do/</link>
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		<title>Live forever!</title>
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This is April Steele&#8217;s tattoo:

The story goes that this phrase was shouted at young Ray Bradbury by a magician named Mr. Electrico at a carnival in 1932. Each night at the end of his show this magician would be &#8220;electrocuted&#8221; in front of the crowd and, using a sword, would knight all the children on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/19/live-forever/</link>
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		<title>let love write on you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Anna&#8217;s tattoo:
It&#8217;s basically a reminder to live life and to experience it and spend time with those I love, and to spend time doing what I love.


&#8220;Hershel did not possess a family of his own. He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/17/let-love-write-on-you/</link>
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		<title>we start and end with family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Family Day to certain Canadians.  This is Emily&#8217;s tattoo.
&#8220;I decided that I wanted to make a very clear statement about my love and dedication to my family&#8230;specifically my mother, my father and my brother. For the first 25 years of my life it was just the four of us and this tattoo is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/15/we-start-and-end-with-family/</link>
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		<title>see hear feel</title>
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This is Sarah&#8217;s tattoo:
I fell in love with Ulysses by James Joyce when I was in college studying literature, identifying with the bumbling, conflicted Leopold Bloom.
When my life was recently turned upside down by heartache, I was reminded of this line from the &#8220;Hades&#8221; chapter, spoken by Bloom: &#8220;Plenty to see and hear and feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/12/see-hear-feel/</link>
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		<title>VFD from the Carnivorous Carnival</title>
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This is Nick&#8217;s tattoo:
Attached is a photograph of my own V.F.D. tattoo, located on the inside of my left ankle, from Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It&#8217;s different from most you&#8217;ll see in that it&#8217;s based on Bret Helquist&#8217;s drawing in the ninth book, The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/10/vfd-from-the-carnivorous-carnival/</link>
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		<title>Answer the first one first.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Ren&#8217;s tattoo.


Any new idea, Mahound, is asked two questions.
The first is asked when it’s weak:
WHAT KIND OF AN IDEA ARE YOU?
Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;
or are you the cursed, bloody-minded ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/08/answer-the-first-one-first/</link>
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		<title>Fig Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Katie C.&#8217;s tattoo:
The reason I got it was because I can really relate to having many paths in my life I might take, and I want to remind myself that if I wait around for the perfect, right one, eventually all my choices will be gone.

&#8220;…I saw my life branching out before me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/03/fig-tree/</link>
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		<title>know thyself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is Emily&#8217;s tattoo of the Ancient Greek aphorism &#8220;Know Thyself&#8221; (nosce te ipsum):
It means that to know and understand yourself if to be able to understand others. It also can be very literal in that it is just important to know who you are inside and out. I learned about this in my political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/01/know-thyself/</link>
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		<title>Three Person&#8217;d God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Sammuel&#8217;s tattoo:
i love the poem &#8211; the sentiment (ie- the contradiction that is love or that is ecstatic love).  the voice here can only be chaste when ravished.  and what does it mean to be ravished by god?  this picture was taken the night i had it done.

BATTER my heart, three person&#8217;d God; for, you
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/01/29/three-persond-god/</link>
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