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Because while each tattoo and story are different, there is a basic commonality they do seem to share. On the whole, I also enjoy the use of the mans body and his physical tattoos as a semi-psychological bond between the stories being told. I also liked the kind of sadness and almost-terror that the Illustrated Man seems to embody, a feeling that I think takes over a lot of the work, making each story a gut-twisting turn towards the least expected, or the most saddening. I LOVED the prologue that Bradbury provides us with! I immediately envied our narrator the chance to look at all the beautiful tattoos, and cursed the lack of detail on the cover of my copy, lol. Here, gathered on one wall, were all the finest scenes in the universe the man was a walking treasure gallery.

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They were windows looking in upon fiery reality. He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his bodyвЂ¦There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chestвЂ¦The colors burned in three dimensions.

Night begins to fall, and as the Illustrated Man settles in to sleep, he warns the narrator to not spend too much time staring at the tattoos, or he may get lost in them and learn things he doesnвЂ™t want to know.

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On his shoulder, however, there remains a jumbled part section of skin that will begin to predict the future of whomever the Illustrated Man is around, given enough time.

He shows the man his tattoos and explains that at night they come alive, begin to move, and tell the stories of both the past and the future. Our narrator is a traveler just completing a hiking trip, and the Illustrated Man describes himself as a part-time carnival worker who occasionally finds work, but inevitably ends up losing it do to the tattoos he bears all over his body. ItвЂ™s in the prologue that we meet both our narrator and the Illustrated Man. And, while IвЂ™m not completely done with the collection at this point, IвЂ™m starting to seem some major themes of religion, spirituality, technology, and the value of both life and death beginning to develop! ItвЂ™s impossible for me to discuss short stories without spoilers, however, so beware now! The stories are all connected through the man on the cover above, a wanderer and part-time circus worker whose body of deep, illustrious tattoos move and come alive at night, predicting the future and revealing the past.

The Illustrated Man is a collection of eighteen short stories published by Ray Bradbury in 1951. Everyone wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them.

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