Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » Salman Rushdie 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 Answer the first one first. http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/08/answer-the-first-one-first/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/02/08/answer-the-first-one-first/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:27 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1252 This is Ren‘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 sway with the breeze?
- the kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, be smashed to bits;
but the hundredth time, will change the world?

What’s the second question? Gibreel asked.

Answer the first one first.

- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

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