Calantha
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Post by Calantha on Nov 8, 2003 11:58:26 GMT -5
Maybe she'd give each person a number as well and your number would be the key to where your letter would go... It would be sort blah if you only found someone else with a "the"...or words like that, but I'm sure you'd be bound to find someone with a better word eventually. Someone would probably start a website and then the people with the words would look up a website for it and then there'd you go... Maybe if she didn't give numbers out the people would arrange themselves to make their own story. I'd imagine though she'd have some sort of idea of how to make sure that the words go in order. Hmm...
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Post by MagPie on Nov 8, 2003 20:07:50 GMT -5
I'm with KoNeko, I don't think I'd do it. A word seems pretty boring, even if it is part of a whole book. I do want a tatto though. 2 hearts, one red, the other pink I guess b/c white never shows up well, but just like an outline, not filled all the way in. They'd be interlocking. Yes, I'm a hopeless romantic. The other heart wouldn't be attached to a particular person, just a reminder that I do believe in love. My mother has kept me from getting one because she said she wouldn't pay my college tuition and once I graduated she said she wouldn't pay for my wedding. However, when I broke up with my last bf she felt bad and said if I still wanted one when I was 25 (7 months!) I can get one with no repercussions I'm not too into the piercings though. I'd just like to do my belly button.
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Post by En on Nov 9, 2003 14:46:28 GMT -5
I don't know that it would be boring exactly; I mean, yeah, it would be a bit if you got "the," but imagine how much fun you could have with "a" -- people would think it stood for something, like your significant other's name or some religious thing or other. And it would definitely be more fun if you got to know the other words -- like, it would be hilarious to throw a party, invite all the words you know, and line up and take a picture of your words in a different order than the author intended.
But then, maybe the author doesn't care what order the words put themselves in, as long as she has the pictures in order for herself and knows that the story is complete out there, and evolving.
Anyway, I couldn't do it because I have this thing with words. My whole, I don't know, self-concept is completely bound up in words -- I'm a writer, I read metric tons, I want to teach literature, and I'm often far more moved by words about an experience than the experience itself -- so for me to take on a word would alter my whole selfhood, which is why I think it would be really annoying to get a word without knowing what it is. I mean, you guys know my thing about wanting to stay gender-free -- what if I got "man" or "woman"?
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 10, 2003 8:31:43 GMT -5
But what if you got "White-oak"?
Hmmm, another downside, as I think was mentioned before, but what if there's sexually explicit content in the story, or you end up getting a swear word tattooed on your leg or something?
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Post by En on Nov 10, 2003 16:53:07 GMT -5
Or, Koko, what if I got "Cerulean-Blue"?
It's not-knowing the word that's bothering me. I could commit to "the," or "cerulean" for kicks, or "oak" or "tragedy" or "mitochondria" or something... but not knowing... that I can't do.
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Post by Nie on Nov 10, 2003 17:35:42 GMT -5
Hey, wouldn't it be fun if you could choose which language the word getting tattooed on you was in? I mean, technically it wouldn't make any difference to the story, because it would mean the same thing, but it would make it more interesting for the tattooed.
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Post by En on Nov 10, 2003 17:54:14 GMT -5
Mm, but does it make a difference? I mean, if I got "girl" and chose to put "domina" instead of "puella," that might change how people understood what was going on in the story, right? I mean "domina" implies a power relationship, while "puella" implies youth... would the author be cool with one of the words choosing to bend its own meaning by translational choice?
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Ceridwen
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 11, 2003 9:28:07 GMT -5
Pfff. Put it all into Irish. It's the language of the gods anyway. ( ;D) Imagine if you got a word like 'hate'? Or 'war?' or 'Blood?' My whole being is words, too, and I know 'bad' words need to exist in order for balance to be maintained (yeah, just like people) - but I couldn't deal with having a negatively charged word forever inscribed on me. I'd go crazy. However, if the word I got was something like 'groovy', I might reconsider...
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Post by En on Nov 11, 2003 12:14:57 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, no kidding... I couldn't handle it if I got "bomb" or... oh dear lord, what if I got "Republican"? I'd die. Even if I could force myself to go through with the tattoo, that part of my body would atrophy and die just because I'd hate to even think that the word was there. It would be the first recorded case of psychosomatic auto-amputation
But haha... I'd take "groovy" too... or "liberal" or "lachrymose" or "pulchritude"...
Meh, I'm back to where I was before. If the other people involved and I had written the story and each chosen our words, I'd do it. I understand why the author doesn't want to let people choose words, because all the nouns would go right off and she'd have trouble selling the necessary hundreds of other people on getting conjunctions and articles, but... yeah, I believe very strongly in vocation, and I don't think I can accept a calling from a total stranger
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Post by MagPie on Nov 12, 2003 20:26:33 GMT -5
So am I a totally lame and cheesy girl because I just want 2 hearts???
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 13, 2003 6:55:27 GMT -5
Naw, Mag (can I call you that?)- I mean, if that's what does it for you, then I don't see why you should worry about us (of all people!) thinking it was lame and cheesy. I mean, I'm sort of jealous that you are romantic enough to get that, but that's just me. That said, if I wanted to get two concentric stars, does that mean I'm egocentric?
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 13, 2003 7:30:16 GMT -5
Hey, no, MagPie, that sounds nice. If it's meaningful to you, then that's all that matters. I don't think I'd get a tattoo, or, at least, if I did, it would be something very small and inconspicuous. It'd probably be something like an Old English runic letter, because I love them. When I was younger I used to daydream about getting Jimi Hendrix's face tattooed on my back, but then I decided that the freckles would lessen the effect somewhat. My friend has a great tattoo - she was born and grew up in Trinidad, and she's also great with graphic design. She designed her own tattoo, based on an image of the island of Trinidad, and had it tattooed on the small of her back. Painful, she says, but worth it. She also has had everywhere pierced. *significant look* and I mean everywhere. Scary - but if it works for you...
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Post by KoNeko on Nov 13, 2003 7:41:58 GMT -5
Hmmm, about getting everything pierced:
British woman Elaine Davidson holds the World Record for piercing, with 720 piercings all over her body. She has 56 piercings on her stomach, breasts and hands.
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Post by En on Nov 13, 2003 13:01:14 GMT -5
Hey, MagPie, try being a Jew with a Celtic cross on your left shoulder... that's really hard to explain Whatever means the most to you, go for it. Though, just something to think about -- a committed relationship seems really important to you -- do you think your significant other would want a say in the tattoo? I don't know whether that's something that would matter to you, or to the kind of other you're looking for, but *shrug* as much as my ex fixated on my tattoo, I guess I got to wondering how much designs on my skin affected our relationship... but that's way old news, anyway.
Heh, Ceri, my Uncle Snake has a life-size face of Janis Joplin on his chest.
*glances at the picture* *shudders* Um... whatever floats your boat... but I got freaked out when I was wearing an earring for the first time and it froze to my ear during one particularly charming Iowa winter day...
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Post by MagPie on Nov 13, 2003 16:52:48 GMT -5
Well, I could answer your question from a few different perspectives, En. There is not currently a significant other to worry about, so there's one way to answer. But I could imagine that a future significant other might freak out a little at such a "committed relationship" oriented tatoo, so that is something to consider, which I have not before. But here's me being a hopeless romantic again. The past significant other with whom I still think I'm going to spend my life (as does he, and as do most of our friends) would not freak out about it. He might think it was a bit cheesy, but you know, I can be kinda cheesy sometimes so it's ok Um, and that picture made me gasp as I was scrolling down the page. And even more so after En's freezing earring story...
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