Comments on: tempus frangit http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/01/25/tempus-frangit/ Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tattoo Tuesday- Neil Gaiman’s Sandman « Girl Gone Geek's Blog http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/01/25/tempus-frangit/comment-page-1/#comment-24238 Tattoo Tuesday- Neil Gaiman’s Sandman « Girl Gone Geek's Blog Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:59:02 +0000 http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1232#comment-24238 [...] What Will said about his tattoo, “This was my first tattoo, though I’ve been thinking about it for … well, a long time. The phrase comes from Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” series, from Delirium’s sundial and means “time is broken.” For me, it was always a play on having no sense of time, but realizing that memories are persistent beyond any real sense of time. I can remember what happened ten years ago better than I can what I did for lunch yesterday. I think most people are like that. Having it just above where most people wear a watch is just part of the joke.” (Source: Contrariwise Literary Tattoos) [...] [...] What Will said about his tattoo, “This was my first tattoo, though I’ve been thinking about it for … well, a long time. The phrase comes from Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman” series, from Delirium’s sundial and means “time is broken.” For me, it was always a play on having no sense of time, but realizing that memories are persistent beyond any real sense of time. I can remember what happened ten years ago better than I can what I did for lunch yesterday. I think most people are like that. Having it just above where most people wear a watch is just part of the joke.” (Source: Contrariwise Literary Tattoos) [...]

]]> By: borsithespider http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/01/25/tempus-frangit/comment-page-1/#comment-17727 borsithespider Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:35:27 +0000 http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1232#comment-17727 But surely time does break things. In the end time breaks everything. But surely time does break things. In the end time breaks everything.

]]> By: Naomi Eve http://www.contrariwise.org/2010/01/25/tempus-frangit/comment-page-1/#comment-16555 Naomi Eve Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:42:49 +0000 http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1232#comment-16555 I love the Sandman books, and personally believe that the link to the books is more important than the link to correct Latin meaning & syntax, but, the pedant in me has to point out: Frango is a transitive verb - the active form of the verb is used for "time breaks (something)". Probably a better form of the verb for Gaiman & this tattoo would be "frangitur" - "is broken". But that's just the pedant in me. /Latin grammarnazi rantbox. I love the Sandman books, and personally believe that the link to the books is more important than the link to correct Latin meaning & syntax, but, the pedant in me has to point out:

Frango is a transitive verb – the active form of the verb is used for “time breaks (something)”. Probably a better form of the verb for Gaiman & this tattoo would be “frangitur” – “is broken”.

But that’s just the pedant in me.

/Latin grammarnazi rantbox.

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