The Veldt starts things off in excellent Bradbury utopia/dystopia style. When his flesh twitched, the tiny mouths flickered, the tiny green and gold eyes winked, the tiny pink hands gestured.Īs darkness falls, the tattoos start to play out their stories. He learns that the tattooed man has trouble holding down a job, because there is something different about his tattoos.Īs for the rest of him, I cannot say how I sat and stared, for he was a root 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 body. The narrator, on a hiking holiday, encounters him one evening and shares some food with him. The Illustrated Man is a collection of stories based around the tattoos on the body of a carnival worker.

I love his imagination and the way he spins pictures out of words. Read for the Reader’s Room Road Trip Challenge

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