Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font running down the side of the ribs, reading let it go, let them go, let all go, so comes love.

Typewriter quote along the ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a side torso showing four lines of black text tattooed along the ribs, set in a typewriter-style serif font. Each line steps slightly lower and to the left, so the quote reads from top to bottom. The ink is solid and dark with clean edges, and the skin is warmly lit against a grey fabric at the top of the frame.

Lettering Ribs Quote Text Love Typewriter font

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Pull that chair nearer the stove, you're letting the warm out. Right. My father kept a black typewriter in the wheelhouse office at Newlyn, and the e had a stick in it that he never fixed, so every word with an e came out lame, like it had a bad leg.

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The winter of the big blow, the Good Intent fouled her gear on the reef off Mousehole. Her engine was labouring, the skipper was bawling to haul, and the sea was coming green over the bow. My father stood at the winch with the rope in his hands and said, let it go. Then he went down the line of the fleet on the radio, and to the lads on the Carrick Lass he said, let them go, cut the lot if you must. And when the boats came in short and grey on the Thursday, he stood on the quay and said, let all go. We lost eleven nets that winter and a month's money.

Nobody spoke to him for a fortnight. Then he sat at that machine every night with two fingers and the sticking e, and he typed a card for Mrs Penhallow, whose husband had been in the crew, and who came down to the quay each evening to count the masts. He typed it four times, one line under the other, and each line stepped a little lower and a little to the left, the way the boats dropped off the swell.

So comes love, it ended. The e in love never came out clean. He said that was the honest bit, and he kept the card in the till drawer for forty years.