Black lettering tattoo of Greek script running diagonally across the back of a hand, shown in a close photo.

Greek script lettering on the back of a hand

Lettering · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A single word in Greek script is tattooed in solid black ink across the back of a hand, angled from lower left to upper right. The letters have smooth, even linework with little shading, and the ink sits on pale skin against a dark, blurred background. The photo is taken close up and slightly from above, with the word filling the centre of the frame.

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Every morning before the first train, old Thanasis walked the length of the platform at Lefka Halt with a rag and a tin of black enamel. Nobody had asked him to. The timetable boards had been replaced twice by the ministry in Athens, and both times the new ones came with the wrong names. He painted the station name back onto the pillars by hand, letter by letter, and he would not hurry it.

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The stationmaster's wife said it was foolishness. The porter said the paint cost money the railway did not give him. Thanasis only said that a thing done without the whole of you was just a thing, and that his father had called it meraki, the way a woman salts a soup she has tasted a hundred times and still tastes it again before she serves it. He had never learned to do anything in any other way.

One winter the line was closed for a month by snow, and nobody came. When the trains finally returned, the first driver leaned from his cab, read the name on the pillar, and slowed his engine to a crawl so he could read the whole of it. Thanasis stood at the end of the platform with his tin and watched the carriages pass. He did not wave, because he was still finishing the last curl of the final letter.

The driver told his mates in the depot that the paint on Lefka Halt was still wet in the middle of the snow, and that the old man had not looked up once.

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