I'm all for literary quotes in most formats, but in the long-lost days of the Cheech &

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OK, one more time... My favorite lit-quote is from Stephen King's "The Shining": "Tough old world, baby-if you're not tightly bolted together you're giong to shake, rattle, and roll by the time you're 30." Having said that, my personal Taliban-like attitude toward tats as an artform (especially chick tats!) dates from a close encounter in the 70's with one that was misspelled while I was attempting to reenter Earth orbit after a massive accidental dose of Green Monster microdot... Longwinded digression, but it was the kind of thing that makes a lasting impression, eh, what?

I've got one! Picture me, starry-eyed in university, hairdyed daughter of a librarian & aspiring writer... & I stumble upon Nabokov's masterpiece - Pale Fire. Give it a year, & in honor of the poet-cum-lepidopterist I boast a moth tatooed on each wrist! Impulsive, & much warned-against, but it's a choice I've never regretted, & I savor it on every reread...

Kevin A. Lewis, THE HORROR! THE HORROR! A misspelled tat? Worse than any flashback. Erzsebet, I want a photo! Send to thereadingwriter at aol dot com. Your moths sound rather cool...

I want to get "Timshel" from Steinbeck's book East of Eden. It captures my entire life philosophy in one word (which means less pain for me while GETTING the tattoo!). In Hebrew it is actually spelled "Timshol" but I prefer to see it on myself as Steinbeck chose to write it, because that is how it originally became so much to me. It means Thou Mayest and in the book it is used to get across the point that you chose what kind of person you are, and how you react to the world around you. It makes me pause to think before I act, and anything that makes me do that deserves a permanent place on my body.