Carl Zimmer is a very good science writer. His work shows up all over the place. He has a blog for Discover Magazine, and while I'm not sure what "Science Ink" is, he uncovers this great passage on Queequeg's tattoos in Moby Dick:
This tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last.
I have never thought of tattoos in such a way. An incredible passage. Are all tattoos at some level a glimpse into eternal mysteries? Do we all carry scars, visible or invisible, that are clues to the mysteries of the universe? Probably not, or maybe at some level we don't immediately discern.
Anyway, it's deep, eh?
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Posted by: axelv?skor. | 07/31/2013 at 03:41 AM