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5th September 2010 / 352 notes

5th September 2010

lastdragonlord asked: What is the meaning of your tattoo?

VI (the Roman numeral for 6) represents all the beautiful and all the sad things that have happened in my life and how I survived, with the help of my friends and the people who love me. VI’s meaning is quite possibly the longest story I have.

“ I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.

— Kurt Vonnegut “Physicist, Purge Thyself” in the Chicago Tribune Magazine (22 June 1969)

(Source: neonspandex)