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tattoolit: My first encounter with the phrase “Et in Arcadia Ego” occurred during university as I read Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited.” He used the phrase not only as the title to the first book of the novel but also he describes one of the main characters rooms that contains a skull with the phrase etched upon it. Literally the phrase can be translated to “even in Arcadia I exist,” as if spoken by personified death warning that he resides even in utopia, reminding people of their own mortality.  Ink credited to Josh Peters at Outworld Tattoos in Saint John, NB. Sent in by Norah B.

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My first encounter with the phrase “Et in Arcadia Ego” occurred during university as I read Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited.” He used the phrase not only as the title to the first book of the novel but also he describes one of the main characters rooms that contains a skull with the phrase etched upon it. Literally the phrase can be translated to “even in Arcadia I exist,” as if spoken by personified death warning that he resides even in utopia, reminding people of their own mortality. 

Ink credited to Josh Peters at Outworld Tattoos in Saint John, NB.

Sent in by Norah B.

— 9 months ago with 28 notes
#literature  #death  #tattoos  #lettering 
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