Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » Thomas Wolfe 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 hill-haunted http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/06/12/hill-haunted/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/06/12/hill-haunted/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:00:58 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=815 This tattoo’s owner says:

Look Homeward, Angel is my favorite book of all time and a book in which I consider life-changing- the language and the rich linguistic elegance in which the book was written struck me so, so hard. Before this, I just didn’t know anything could be so beautifully written. Aside from the language, the simple story of Eugene Gant and his family was enchanting. I always considered myself an extremely nature-inspired person, at least on the inside, and I thought ‘hill-haunted’ was a great way to describe that.

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“Hill-haunted, whose vision of the earth was mountainwalled, he saw the golden cities sicken in his eye, the opulent dark splendors turn to dingy gray. His brain was sick with the million books, his eyes with the million pictures, his body sickened on a hundred princely wines.”

- Excerpt from Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

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