![]() ![]() ![]() Those are the co-ordinates of the Lenval hospital in Nice, where she gave birth last week to her almost appropriately named twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. And soon enough Jolie will have the numbers 43.41.21N 7.14.29E added to the repertoire. Blood and Sweat apparently didn't make the cut. The latest additions to Jolie's skin text are tributes to Winston Churchill, one on each arm: Toil and Tears. In four long strands along her back runs a Buddhist incantation in Pali, written in Khmer script, whose effectiveness cannot be doubted: "Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you." Over her abdomen runs the trite Latin saw, "Quod me nutrit me destruit," which translates roughly as "what nourishes me destroys me." On the bump of spine below her neck, the title of a Clash album in a rather tacky Gothic font intones "Know Your Rights." "A Prayer for the Wild at Heart, Kept in Cages," the quotation on her left arm, is the subtitle of a little known and hugely overearnest young play by Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof. In his weekly look at the sound bites of our times, Stephen Marche deconstructs a tattooed verse from the nape of her angelic neck There are several prayers tattooed on Angelina Jolie's body. But her famously telegenic flesh plays canvas to tattooed prayers from religions as varied as her children's birth countries. Few among us would describe Angelina Jolie as a saintly figure.
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