nice. i have long been considering getting the fragment of sappho that reads simply "as long as you want" in greek tattooed on the same spot. it strikes me as about the most concise statement on love that i can think of. an obstacle is that i don't speak greek, so i would feel a little bit like a poser. but i have more or less dedicated my life to lyric poetry, and sappho was basically the inventor of the form.
Given that I know very very little Hebrew vocabulary (the only phrases I remember are "I want to go home" and "Mom is in the house"), I consider it pretentious to get a tattoo only if you don't know the alphabet in question. The Greek alphabet is not that hard to learn... in fact, my Latin teacher made me do it once. :)
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