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Treble clef behind the ear
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A solid black treble clef sits on the skin behind the ear, with smooth, bold linework and no shading. The surrounding skin is slightly reddened, and the hair is pulled back to the side. The composition is a close crop centred on the tattoo and the ear.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Brother Wendel, the Gradual came back from the bindery yesterday and the scribe there has put the G sign wrong again, the curl sitting a full stave too low, so every antiphon for Easter week would have the choir singing a fourth beneath the Christ they mean. I have sent it back with a note in my own hand. You will laugh, but I had to draw the sign for him on a slate three times before he saw that the loop must hold the second line like a finger holding a page.
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The old precentor, Brother Gilbert, used to say the sign was a key turned in a lock, and that the whole melody swings open from one point. I thought him fanciful until the winter you left, when the bell-ringer's boy was brought to me with a fever and sang the Kyrie through in a voice I had never heard from him. I sat by his bed and traced the curl on the blanket, and he followed it with his small finger, pitch for pitch, as if the sign were a road he already knew.
He is well now and asks after you. Tell the mason at Ely that the ink here is still the old oak gall, which does not fade, and that I have kept the spare parchment where you left it.
This morning I went to the chapel before lauds and found the slate propped by the lectern with the curl still drawn in chalk. Someone had added a small dot at its centre, where the line is held. I have not wiped it away. Your brother in Christ, Anselm.
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