PL:
"(...) Ojciec Alice z miejsca poczul antypatie do Williama Burnsa, ktory kazal sobie zrobic tatuaz juz pierwszego dnia ich znajomosci. Tatuaz opasywal jego prawe udo, dzieki czemu mogl go ogladac siedzac w toalecie. Byly to poczatkowe nutyhymnu wielkanocnego, ktory cwiczyl wraz z Alice, rozpoczynajacego sie od slow "Chrystus nasz Pan z martwych powstal dzis". Ze wzgledu na brak tekstu, aby go rozpoznac nalezalo umiec czytac nuty i siedziec bardzo blisko ojca Jacka, na przyklad na sasiednim sedesie.
Wowczas jednak, robiac mlodemu, zdolnemu organiscie jego pierwszy tatuaz, ojciec Alice oznajmil, ze William ma zadatki na "nalogowca", "kolekcjonera", inaczej mowiac kogos, kto nigdy nie poprzestanie na pierwzym ani nawet na dwudziestym tatuazu. Bedzie tatuowal dopoty jego cialo nie zacznie przypominac pieciolinii, a kazdy jego skrawek zostanie pokryty nutami. Zlowroga przepowiednia, lecz Alice puscila ja mimo uszu. Organista z obsesja tatuazy zdazyl skrasc jej serce."
W "Zanim Cie znajde" Johna Irvinga, historia tatuazu, tatuartystow i tego jak zmieniala sie branza od lat 60 ubieglego wieku po dzien obecny to tylko tlo dla glownej historii, ale jak to u Irvinga, tlo bywa równie ciekawe co pierwszy plan.
ENG:
"(...)Alice's dad took an instant dislike to William Burns, who got his first tattoo the day the two men met. The tattoo gripped his right thigh, where William could read it when he was sitting on the toilet -- the opening notes to an Easter hymn he'd been rehearsing with Alice, the words to which began, "Christ the Lord is risen today." Without the words, you'd have to read music, and be sitting very close to Jack's father -- perhaps on an adjacent toilet -- to recognize the hymn.
But then and there, upon giving the talented young organist his first tattoo, Alice's dad told her that William would surely become an "ink addict," a "collector" -- meaning he was one of those guys who would never stop with the first tattoo, or with the first twenty tattoos. He would go on getting tattooed, until his body was a sheet of music and every inch of his skin was covered by a note -- a dire prediction but one that failed to warn Alice away. The tattoo-crazy organist had already stolen her heart."
Tattoo, tattooists and the way the field was changing while years passed by from last century's '60 to the present day are just background to John Irving's "Until I find you", but as in other Irving books, the background can be as interesting as the first plan.
