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Reply Wed 10 Nov, 2004 05:33 am
The place that leech-like mouth had touched me was tattooed forever, frog-white, into the skin of my now-withered shoulder.

Is the sentence above grammatically right?
What does it mean?
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Reply Wed 10 Nov, 2004 08:33 am
Welcome to A2K, wwl. That is a stunning line of poetic consequence. It is a way of saying that someone bit another on the shoulder with malicious intent, and the scar became like a tattoo, bleached white as a result of blood sucking. (which is what leeches do, you know)

It is, most likely, metaphorical, and a response to a wounded soul.
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Reply Wed 10 Nov, 2004 08:38 pm
That's a great help. I originally took the word "place" as somewhere the author stayed,now I know it refer to the place in his shoulder that he wounded.
Thank you.
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