Monday, February 07, 2005

Talking about tattoos.

Once, I was at a party, fancy dress, and this guy was wearing just leather trousers, and on his back he had a tattoo in traditional hebrew script, that said "tohu vavohu" (roughly chaos/darkness and void, although it's all up for debate in a big way, and I'm sure a bundle of people'll come in here and correct me).

I asked him about it. He said do you read Hebrew. I said clearly. Then his girlfriend took off her shirt, and she had the same. They'd had them done at the sameish time to seal their relationship.

Turned out they weren't Jewish, but they were goth-types with a slightly chaso/magickal edge. I was relieved they'd got the vowels right. Takes all sorts.

Hello Ben, if you ever read this.

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