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| Japanese "Yakuza" with traditional tattoos (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
The way to speak is the way what makes speaking effective or ineffective. But this is only one thing to increase person's influence on another person. The communication by worlds is only the part of the communication and another way to get influence in to make tattoos around the body. And in the Ray Bradbury's book "Illustrated man" the tattoos are in the main role. The book is a story about two hikers, who are sleeping under the tree, and another hiker is full of tattoos, what start to live in another person's eyes or mind.
Those tattoos are telling the stories about the man, who carries them, and at the end, one of those magical tattoos tells, that "illustrated man" was going to kill his company, and then this person flees away. The book is quite old, and it is actually the collection of short novels, but it is still the book, what brings the timeless question in the mind of the reader.
Why somebody wants to mark self with the mark "criminal", and the question about those tattoos is, that their maker was never mentioned in this classic novel. I personally think that Bradbury mentioned in that novel, that when some person sees something that was in the cell or another place, where the trauma was created, might the memories start to return.
The reason, why those men were traveled and slept outside were not mentioned, but in my mind, I have put this story in the time of the great economic disaster in early 1930's. And maybe they were traveled by feet, but this is only my opinion. Maybe those persons were left from some institute or mental hospital, and there was nobody with them.
Or maybe this collection of the novels symbolizes the life. Maybe the idea of the Bradbury was, that the main character of the fictional novel could this time be the woman, who married the prisoner, and then they were living together. And maybe in the mind of Bradbury were thoughts, that those characters sat at the table opposite together, and sometimes the tattooed man tells the story about the tattoos, what covered his skin. Or maybe those characters were two bikers, who often drives together, and then another tells the stories, what is the code of those tattoos, what this man carries on the skin.
And the main character of this book might be the person who has PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and then while laying at the side of his partner, this person's returned in the mind, the things what happened in some cell. In this book, newer mentioned is the main character the man or woman but in other Bradbury novels they were male, and this is the reason why I expect that this main character was also the man. But it can also be a woman.
The best thing about the books is that they can give many ideas of the reader's mind. And sometimes I will put this novel in the future, where dangerous prisoners might carry the tattoos, what are made with nanotechnology. When the carrier of those micro screens will get angry, the picture in those tattoos would send the warning sign to another person, that the man is dangerous. those pictures might be made with nano-size impaled LED-lights, what is controlled by the microprocessor, what will predict the physiological reactions in the person body.
And here came to my mind the thought, that this kind of implanted LED-lights can the person get any tattoo picture, what this person wants, and change them when necessary. When this person is with the MC-mates, there might be skull tattoos and other things like that. When this person goes to meet the parents, the tattoos can be removed immediately, by using the remote controller. And this kind of fictional chameleon tattoos might be future of those things.
This is basically the same technology, what is used in the STEALTH camouflage, where the picture makes the perfect effect, what makes the person invincible. In the tattoos those LED:s will be implanted the person's body. But this is only the thinking. nobody would know, what Bradbury thought when he wrote this book.
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Picture 1
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