I believe the tattoo on Megan Fox's (actress in the recent Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie) right shoulder got a lot people thinking. What does "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies" mean? It is actually taken from Shakespeare's King Lear (Act 5, Scene III):
Come, let's away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds in the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; —
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by the moon.
-- King Lear to his one true daughter, Cordelia
Gilded butterflies in this context refer to people who put on false fronts, just like King Lear's other 2 daughters (Cordelia's sisters) who have betrayed him. And thus, we shall laugh at these people who make a mockery of themselves and others.
On an added note, Megan has another poetic tattoo, "There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart." Self-explanatory. Love hurts.
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