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The man the illustrated man6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The first story, “The Veldt”, is perhaps one of the most disturbing in the whole collection. ![]() When night falls, the beautiful images on his body begin to move, and stories unfold… ![]() The book begins with the narrator encountering the Illustrated Man, a man completely covered in tattoos, who tells the story of how he got them (and how he curses them now). And anyway, the vast majority of these stories wowed me. As the book progressed, they did start to blur together, but perhaps that’s fitting given their medium. I’ve had a copy of The Illustrated Man for practically forever, and as soon as I opened the book I was sorry that I had let it languish for so long on my shelves. “In these eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.” It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. ![]()
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