Jack's Tattoo (missing temporarily) LbNA #37473 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 8, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Austin |
| County: | Travis |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | willhime  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jan 8, 2008 |
This letterbox is missing. I will replace it soon.
Find yourself at the Scribe of Amherst Dr.
Walking in a southerly direction down a modern cement path,
Take port side at a chain in a plastic yellow jacket betwixt two wooden posts.
Begin down the trail at 120° past 9 stones on your right.
When you reach a clearing, head due south towards a horse-shoe station.
From the south horseshoe fence, take the path at 180°, just left of the cactus patch.
Laden with rock, traverse the trail past a gnarly oak whose root crosses your path.
The path curves down and starboard, running into a rocky creek bed. Let gravity guide you along the creek to a paved cement/rock hiking path.
Once the path is reached stop and take 11 paces at 275° back up hill, making your first pace a good step up onto a porous boulder.
After these 11, turn an ever so slight left and take a dozen more along the dirt path. Stop. Hike towards Waco for 28 paces. Stop. To your right should be the cliff side over-looking the 90° bend in the cement path below.
Take 16 paces at 290°. Then 8 paces at 325°. A cedar stands, with roughly 6 necks decapitated and a dead oak groans out of the same trunk space to it’s left. The box lays in the belly of the dead oak hollow. Look carefully, for the box is beclouded to blend in well. Stuff back in hole well.
The Number 5 on the tattoo:
"Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open and the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I: and the terror was just so crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for 5 seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine." -Jack
Chinese characters:
1st means eagle.
2nd means strike, as a verb.
3rd means long.
4th means "sky", "space", void, "empty".
These characters are pronounced ying ji chang kong (in PinYin). These four characters are taken from a famous poem written by Chairman Mao Tse-tung (MAO Zhedong). It may be roughly translated as "Eagles high, cleaving sky", or more simply, "the Eagles fly up on the sky". But the poem itself has a deeper meaning. In the end of the first stanza, the poet asks, "who masters fate's rise and descent?"
Ch'ang-sha 1925
Standing alone in the autumn cold:
The Hsiang flowing northward,
Orange Island, the cape.
I see thousands of hills in crimsoned view,
The woods piling up in deep-dye;
The mighty stream, in its gleam of jade,
One hundred barques racing by.
Eagles high up, cleaving the space,
Fish gliding above shallow ground;
Ten thousand creatures, under frosty a sky,
all fighting for freedom.
In the waste's dreariness brooding,
I ask the blue space without bonds:
Who masters fate's rise and descent?
Once I came here with a hundred companions,
Vivid the months and years yet, filled with pride.
Schoolmates we were, and young altogether,
Upright and honest, in the bloom of our lives;
Impetuous students, full of enthusiasm,
We cast all restraints boldly aside.
Pointing to China, its mountains and rivers,
Setting the people afire with our words,
And counted for muck all those ranking high.
Do you still can remember:
How, venturing midstream, the oars lashed the waters
And the waves yet staying the flight of our boats?
Find yourself at the Scribe of Amherst Dr.
Walking in a southerly direction down a modern cement path,
Take port side at a chain in a plastic yellow jacket betwixt two wooden posts.
Begin down the trail at 120° past 9 stones on your right.
When you reach a clearing, head due south towards a horse-shoe station.
From the south horseshoe fence, take the path at 180°, just left of the cactus patch.
Laden with rock, traverse the trail past a gnarly oak whose root crosses your path.
The path curves down and starboard, running into a rocky creek bed. Let gravity guide you along the creek to a paved cement/rock hiking path.
Once the path is reached stop and take 11 paces at 275° back up hill, making your first pace a good step up onto a porous boulder.
After these 11, turn an ever so slight left and take a dozen more along the dirt path. Stop. Hike towards Waco for 28 paces. Stop. To your right should be the cliff side over-looking the 90° bend in the cement path below.
Take 16 paces at 290°. Then 8 paces at 325°. A cedar stands, with roughly 6 necks decapitated and a dead oak groans out of the same trunk space to it’s left. The box lays in the belly of the dead oak hollow. Look carefully, for the box is beclouded to blend in well. Stuff back in hole well.
The Number 5 on the tattoo:
"Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open and the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I: and the terror was just so crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for 5 seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine." -Jack
Chinese characters:
1st means eagle.
2nd means strike, as a verb.
3rd means long.
4th means "sky", "space", void, "empty".
These characters are pronounced ying ji chang kong (in PinYin). These four characters are taken from a famous poem written by Chairman Mao Tse-tung (MAO Zhedong). It may be roughly translated as "Eagles high, cleaving sky", or more simply, "the Eagles fly up on the sky". But the poem itself has a deeper meaning. In the end of the first stanza, the poet asks, "who masters fate's rise and descent?"
Ch'ang-sha 1925
Standing alone in the autumn cold:
The Hsiang flowing northward,
Orange Island, the cape.
I see thousands of hills in crimsoned view,
The woods piling up in deep-dye;
The mighty stream, in its gleam of jade,
One hundred barques racing by.
Eagles high up, cleaving the space,
Fish gliding above shallow ground;
Ten thousand creatures, under frosty a sky,
all fighting for freedom.
In the waste's dreariness brooding,
I ask the blue space without bonds:
Who masters fate's rise and descent?
Once I came here with a hundred companions,
Vivid the months and years yet, filled with pride.
Schoolmates we were, and young altogether,
Upright and honest, in the bloom of our lives;
Impetuous students, full of enthusiasm,
We cast all restraints boldly aside.
Pointing to China, its mountains and rivers,
Setting the people afire with our words,
And counted for muck all those ranking high.
Do you still can remember:
How, venturing midstream, the oars lashed the waters
And the waves yet staying the flight of our boats?