Black line drawing of a circular Gallifreyan script design in a fine-line style, with the words I will love you forever printed beneath it.

Gallifreyan circular script design

Geometric · Black and grey · Flash

A black line drawing of a circular Gallifreyan script design made of arcs, circles and small dots enclosed within a double outer ring. The words I will love you forever are printed in bold capitals beneath the circle. The linework is thin and uniform on a white background, with no shading or colour.

Geometric Circle Arc Dot Quote

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The envelope had come through the Dover scanner twice, so by the time it reached my desk at Terminal Four it had already been opened by someone who didn't know what they were looking at. Inside was a single sheet of card with a circle drawn in black ink, arcs and rings and small dots pricked along the curves, like a clock face that had lost its numbers. Beneath it, in block capitals, someone had printed the plain sentence I will love you forever, as if they didn't trust the circle to say it alone.

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My father was a signwriter in Margate, and he used to say a script was only a picture that people had agreed to read. I spent the afternoon with a magnifying glass and the tin of pencils he left me, tracing where each arc sat against the others. The large ring at the top took the first word. The dots, I decided, were full stops. Nothing in the drawing hurried, and I found that I was hurrying.

The sender was a Mrs Veronica Halloran-Pike, who had written from a village outside Lille and left no return address. I rang the number printed on the back of the card. A man answered, said he had only ever drawn the thing and never posted it, and then asked me, very politely, whether I had got to the end yet.

I had. The last arc closed on itself, the way a ring does when you walk back to where you started. I copied the sentence out in ordinary letters on the back of a customs form, dated it, and put the card in my coat pocket, because some things are not meant for the wrong side of a barrier. Then I drove home along the coast road with the window down and the tide coming in over the flats.