Tattoo Who?

[Henry]

Okay, I've been considering a tat.  Who else has a TRP-Tat?  The MPH is an
obvious choice, but whadya think of the Schwarzkommando mandala?

>From http://tinyurl.com/yq8cwb 

Carolyn Kellogg:  So much of Pynchon's work is ridiculous wordplay to the
extreme -- say, the shrink Dr. Hilarius in The Crying of Lot 49, paranoid
and locked up while the police come to arrest him -- that it's easy to
overlook how prescient he is. In that book, published in 1966, there's a bar
near Yoyodyne populated with engineer-type conspiracy theorists listening to
Stockhausen on the jukebox; Saturdays are live electronic music nights.
Ridiculous and futuristic, maybe: but since the 1990s, I've been going to
that bar. We've all been there. It's at the bar that protagonist Oedipa
first sees a drawing that looks like a muted trumpet. It may symbolize a
secret mail system, which might imply many other things (then again, it
might not). I had the symbol tattooed on my wrist. Some people recognize it.
One day I was at Trader Joe's and the checkout guy asked me about it. "It's
from a book," I said vaguely, not wanting to sound too smarty-pants. He
asked about the book and I told him. "Yeah, I knew it," he said, smiling. I
asked what he thought of The Crying of Lot 49, but he hadn't read it; I was
the third person who'd come to his register that week with the same tattoo.
Either I'm a member of a vast conspiracy (so secret that I'm unaware of it),
or there are legions of Pynchon fans out there, all wearing our affiliation
on our skin.

Henry M 
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