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Vice

The meaning of the appetites that undo a person - drink, gambling, sex, violence. Attested only as the reading of the assembled Man's Ruin composition, never of a single object in isolation.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

3 attested1 source · T2

Registry entry only

The corpus has no enrichment row for this concept (symbols), so it carries its label, description, aliases and provenance and nothing further. No visual traits or cautions are recorded — not because they failed to load, but because that data does not exist in the corpus.

Provenance

1 resolved

  • Man's Ruin, what else? (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine feature on the Man's Ruin composition. Verbatim, INCLUDING the page's own spelling and grammar, transcribed faithfully rather than corrected: "a long-stemmed cocktail glasss with an fallen woman, playing cards in the background and a weapon, like a gun or knife, to complete the picture". States the composition "brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man, all those things which man cannot control". This is a COMPOSITION-level meaning: the reading belongs to the assembled group, and this batch edges it to the component objects only with that scope written on each edge.

    professional tattoo source · published 2022-05-19 · retrieved 2026-08-30

Related concepts

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Can symbolize · 3

  • ← incomingPlaying CardsMotifThin
    strength 0.25researched

    COMPOSITION-SCOPED, not object-scoped, and the strength records that. The source describes the assembled image - “playing cards in the background” among the components - and gives the meaning to the whole: the composition “brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man, all those things which man cannot control”. Cards outside that composition are not covered.

  • ← incomingCocktail GlassMotifAttested
    strength 0.25researched

    COMPOSITION-SCOPED. The source's description, transcribed with its own spelling and grammar intact rather than corrected: “a long-stemmed cocktail glasss with an fallen woman, playing cards in the background and a weapon, like a gun or knife, to complete the picture”. The meaning attaches to that assembly, which the page says “brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man”.

  • ← incomingGunMotifAttested
    strength 0.25researched

    COMPOSITION-SCOPED, exactly like the cards and the glass. The source names it as one of two interchangeable options - “a weapon, like a gun or knife, to complete the picture” - inside the assembly it says “brings together the vices which cause the downfall of man”. A gun outside a Man's Ruin is not covered.