Wednesday, May 26, 2004

A Skin Story

"In the movie Fahrenheit 451, books have been burned, so a group of people volunteer to each memorize a book in order to keep it alive. Now author Shelley Jackson is using volunteers to create a story called 'Skin.' Each of them will have one word of the story tattooed on their body. The story will not be published anywhere else, making it necessary to get most of the volunteers together (and arrange them in the correct order) to be able to read it."

Brilliant! And you can even take part by writing to shelley*drizzle.com.




Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka.


I have no tattoos. But I've thought about it. Franz Kafka inked several mesmerizing stick-figures in various angst-ridden postures and I've considered having them emblazoned on my arm. Well, one of them anyway.

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