Although surely "graven irradicably" is tautology?
it's emphasis. I imagine something could be graven erasably too 🙂
And blood cells have no nuclei, so neither heritage nor personality are graven there
oh really ? If I ever knew that I'd forgotten. So it was only 96% true 🙂 And for that matter personality is probably only 50% genetically determined! I was thinking about this at lunchtime as I was people watching – everyone looked different from head to toe, hairstyle, beardiness, expression, wrinkles, colour, clothes, posture, walking style – in which context skin markings become a very minor factor…