Brad Pitt to his tattoo guy:
I want you to tattoo me
High on my arm, not too high,
But hidden by my T-shirt,
This text from Barks’s Rumi;
“In some far-distant desert
There’s neither faith nor falsehood.
I’d hang out there if you would.”
Brad Pitt to his tattoo guy:
I want you to tattoo me
High on my arm, not too high,
But hidden by my T-shirt,
This text from Barks’s Rumi;
“In some far-distant desert
There’s neither faith nor falsehood.
I’d hang out there if you would.”
Brad’s tattoo is actually Coleman Barks’ popular version:
‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.’
The literal translation is apparently ‘Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a ‘desert plain’ …