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Howl's Moving Castle/Fire & Hemlock tattoo
Bad photo, sorry. Very grainy and distorted, but it's the best one I could do on my own.
But the tattoo work was brilliant! Will take a better photo soon =)
Inked by Kosta, at Zoo Body Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10/11/2010).
“This time she thought for an instant before she acted.”
- Howl’s Moving Castle, Chapter 21: In which a contract is concluded before witnesses.
“The music broadened and deepened, put on majesty and passion, and moved onward in some way, fuller and fuller. All four players were putting their entire selves into it. Polly knew they were not trying to prove anything – or not really. She let the music take her, with relief, because while it lasted she would not have to make a decision or come to a dead end. She found her mind dwelling on Nowhere, as she and Tom used to imagine it. You slip between Here and Now to the hidden Now and Here – as Laurel had once told another Tom, there was that bonny path in the middle – but you did not necessarily leave the world. Here was a place where the quartet was grinding out dissonances. There was a lovely tune beginning to emerge from it. Two sides to Nowhere, Polly thought. One really was a dead end. The other was the void that lay before you when you were making up something new out of ideas no one else had quite had before. That’s a discovery I must do something about, Polly thought, as the lovely tune sang out fully once and then fell away to the end, as the piece had begun – in a long, sullen note. And her mind was made up.”
- Fire & Hemlock, Part 4: Nowhere, Chapter 6.
I mashed the two sentences together because:
1) They fit well together.
2) Both sentences indicate turning-points in which both heroines finally found the strength, courage and determination to step-up and take charge of their lives and their... happiness.
Howl's Moving Castle/Fire & Hemlock tattoo
Bad photo, sorry. Very grainy and distorted, but it's the best one I could do on my own.
But the tattoo work was brilliant! Will take a better photo soon =)
Inked by Kosta, at Zoo Body Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (10/11/2010).
“This time she thought for an instant before she acted.”
- Howl’s Moving Castle, Chapter 21: In which a contract is concluded before witnesses.
“The music broadened and deepened, put on majesty and passion, and moved onward in some way, fuller and fuller. All four players were putting their entire selves into it. Polly knew they were not trying to prove anything – or not really. She let the music take her, with relief, because while it lasted she would not have to make a decision or come to a dead end. She found her mind dwelling on Nowhere, as she and Tom used to imagine it. You slip between Here and Now to the hidden Now and Here – as Laurel had once told another Tom, there was that bonny path in the middle – but you did not necessarily leave the world. Here was a place where the quartet was grinding out dissonances. There was a lovely tune beginning to emerge from it. Two sides to Nowhere, Polly thought. One really was a dead end. The other was the void that lay before you when you were making up something new out of ideas no one else had quite had before. That’s a discovery I must do something about, Polly thought, as the lovely tune sang out fully once and then fell away to the end, as the piece had begun – in a long, sullen note. And her mind was made up.”
- Fire & Hemlock, Part 4: Nowhere, Chapter 6.
I mashed the two sentences together because:
1) They fit well together.
2) Both sentences indicate turning-points in which both heroines finally found the strength, courage and determination to step-up and take charge of their lives and their... happiness.