if you were gonna get one of these quotes as a tattoo, which would yo pick? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Strange Famous · 06-14-2008, 02:36 PM

"if a body meet a body coming through the rye"

"if a body catch a body coming through the rye"

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Willravel · 06-14-2008, 02:42 PM

#2 keeps brining "Catcher in the Rye" to mind. I like that subtext, so I'd go with 2, comrade.

sapiens · 06-14-2008, 03:06 PM

What are you trying to convey with your tattoo? I do think that the choice (#1 vs.#2) is significant. In catcher in the rye Holden gets the lyric wrong. If you're referencing the book, isn't "meet" versus "catch", knowledge of sex versus protection from knowledge of sex?

Seaver · 06-16-2008, 05:34 PM

While you're at it get a second tattoo explaining the first... prepare to get LOTS of questions regarding WTF it means.

levite · 06-17-2008, 01:07 AM

I think you should dispense with both quotes, and just get the entirety of Robert Burns' "Address to a Haggis" tattooed over your chest and stomach.

evilbeefchan · 06-18-2008, 05:50 PM

yea, it depends on what you want to directly reference, the poet robert burns or the phony holden caulfield. (looove that book, btw)

xepherys · 06-18-2008, 08:13 PM

I vote for Holden's version!

Redlemon · 06-19-2008, 06:29 AM

I find it odd that you would ask us. If you don't feel strongly about it either way, why would you want in permanently marked on your skin?

Strange Famous · 06-21-2008, 11:05 AM

Well, I was pretty drunk at the time I wrote the above

allaboutmusic · 06-21-2008, 11:32 AM

"i am drunk!"

Strange Famous · 06-21-2008, 01:40 PM

I think this would make a good one:

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

06-14-2008, 02:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	if you were gonna get one of these quotes as a tattoo, which would yo pick? "if a body meet a body coming through the rye" "if a body catch a body coming through the rye" ?? __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas

06-16-2008, 05:34 PM	#4 (permalink)
Seaver Junkie Location: Fort Worth, TX	While you're at it get a second tattoo explaining the first... prepare to get LOTS of questions regarding WTF it means. __________________ "Smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge, and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." - Ashbel Smith as he laid the first cornerstone of the University of Texas

06-17-2008, 01:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
levite Minion of Joss Location: The Windy City	I think you should dispense with both quotes, and just get the entirety of Robert Burns' "Address to a Haggis" tattooed over your chest and stomach. __________________ Dull sublunary lovers love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove That thing which elemented it. (From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)

06-18-2008, 08:13 PM	#7 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	I vote for Holden's version! __________________ The prospect of achieving a peace agreement with the extremist group of MILF is almost impossible... -- Emmanuel Pinol, Governor of Cotobato My Homepage

06-19-2008, 06:29 AM	#8 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	I find it odd that you would ask us. If you don't feel strongly about it either way, why would you want in permanently marked on your skin? __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

06-14-2008, 02:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	#2 keeps brining "Catcher in the Rye" to mind. I like that subtext, so I'd go with 2, comrade.

06-14-2008, 03:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
sapiens Junkie Location: Some place windy	What are you trying to convey with your tattoo? I do think that the choice (#1 vs.#2) is significant. In catcher in the rye Holden gets the lyric wrong. If you're referencing the book, isn't "meet" versus "catch", knowledge of sex versus protection from knowledge of sex?

06-18-2008, 05:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
evilbeefchan Addict Location: Alhambra, CA	yea, it depends on what you want to directly reference, the poet robert burns or the phony holden caulfield. (looove that book, btw)

06-21-2008, 11:05 AM	#9 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	Well, I was pretty drunk at the time I wrote the above __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas

06-21-2008, 11:32 AM	#10 (permalink)
allaboutmusic Aurally Fixated	"i am drunk!"

06-21-2008, 01:40 PM	#11 (permalink)
Strange Famous follower of the child's crusade?	I think this would make a good one: "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." __________________ "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain without being uncovered." The Gospel of Thomas