Close-up of the word CONTINUE tattooed in black lettering on a forearm, with the I replaced by a semicolon.

Continue lettering with semicolon on forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The image shows the word CONTINUE in black ink across the inner forearm, with the letter I replaced by a semicolon. The letters are drawn in a thin, even monoline with slightly uneven, hand-drawn strokes. The ink is solid black on pale skin, and the photo is taken at a slight angle with a soft background.

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The band stopped mid-bar at the Winter Gardens and the whole floor froze with it, couples half-turned as if someone had shouted a photograph into being. You were holding Dolly Pearce's hand at the edge of the rink, and the drummer's last brush stroke hung up in the rafters. Nobody moved. Somewhere behind the stage curtain a man was coughing into his handkerchief, long and wet, and the coughing went on too long.

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Old Mr Quaile got up from the piano stool with a stub of chalk in his fingers. He drew a small mark on the lid of the upright, a dot sitting above a curl, the way the printer's boy had shown him on a proof sheet that morning. "That isn't a full stop," he said to nobody in particular. "It's a breath. You hold it, then you go on." He rolled his shoulders, struck the same chord again, and the saxophonist came back through the side door, grey around the mouth, fastening his cuffs.

The band picked up the waltz where it had left off, as though the interval had been a bar's rest and nothing more. Dolly laughed and pulled you onto the floor, and you went round with the rest of them, counting under your breath, keeping time with a pulse you were only just sure of.

When the hall was swept and the lights went down, the chalk mark was still there on the lid, smudged at one edge. Dolly copied it onto the back of a ballroom ticket and folded it into your coat pocket. "Keep that," she said. "You'll want reminding, same as the rest of us."

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