David Beckham’s Death And Life By Numbers
DAVID Beckham has a new tattoo.
It’s a swirl of letters that is said to mean: “Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend upon heaven.”
Had Beckham been born with such a birthmark, we would look on him in awe, wrapt in his heavenly majesty. Instead, we look on whim with…
But Beckham is of flesh and blood and looking at the swirling pattern, what an insider terms the “brush-stroke effect” (Chinese italics) we wonder if this new motto is masking a blemish, a broken vein or an enlarged pore?
It might be that as Beckham ages he becomes more coloured in, veins turned into vapours of mystic force, stretch marks morphed into the The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
You don’t so much look at Beckham as study him – which is unusual for a man who has said how much he hates reading…
Picture: The Spine
Posted: 18th, March 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids Comments (3) | TrackBack | Permalink
