Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » Cat’s Cradle http://www.contrariwise.org Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 busy busy busy http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/09/25/busy-busy-busy/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/09/25/busy-busy-busy/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:00:57 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1048 busy2

Katherine explains her tattoo:

From Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

“Busy, busy, busy is what a Bokononist whispers ‘whenever [he] thinks about how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.’”

It is placed on the foot in reference to boko-maru.

“The boko-maru is a Bokononist ritual for ‘the mingling of awarenesses’. It consists in two people extending their legs, thrusting their arms behind them for support, and putting their bare feet together.”

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“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”

- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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