Close-up of a small solid black semicolon tattoo in fine line style on the inner wrist and forearm.

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Small semicolon tattoo on the wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small solid black semicolon sits on pale skin, with the dot as a rounded blob above a tapered comma-shaped stroke. The linework is clean and simple, with no shading, and the ink is a single dark tone. The tattoo is placed toward the right of the frame and the rest of the frame shows soft skin texture.

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Dear Morag, You will remember the Harrogate job, the one with the council minutes that Mr Pell wanted set without a single stop he hadn't chosen himself. I kept one stop in that he hadn't chosen. On page ninety-four there is a semicolon I had no business putting there, because the sentence about the bridge repairs would have ended perfectly well a word earlier.

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Pell found it on the proof and came down to the back room with his glasses in his hand. He asked me what I thought I was doing. I told him the clause on the left was waiting for the clause on the right, and that a full stop would have sent the reader off before the sentence had finished its business. He said nobody reads council minutes for the grammar. I said somebody must, or the bridge would never get mended.

He let it stand in the end, because the proof was already late and he was a practical man. I think he was secretly pleased. The next morning the sentence went through the press, and the semicolon came out as a neat little mark, a round dot above a tapered tail, sitting in the ink as if it meant to come back and finish its thought.

I still have the punch in my drawer, the little steel semicolon worn smooth on one side from years of being turned over in my fingers while I decided where a sentence ought to breathe.

Yours, Eileen

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