The nursery provides hours of entertainment through its walls which are projection screens that reveal whatever settings the children provide. In the house of the future, almost all services such as cooking and cleaning are performed automatically by the house itself. Two parents of the future wonder if they’ve perhaps been over indulgent with their children who have become fascinated with their new, modern, nursery. The drifter watches as the unhappy tales reveal themselves, one my one, upon the man’s inked skin. The men camp for the night and the Illustrated Man falls asleep. He tells the man that, at night, the tattoos begin to move, and stories unfold stories without happy endings. He loathes them and the strange woman – an alien perhaps – who colored his flesh with the illustrations. When asked why, he reveals an endless series of tattoos that cover his body. Despite the warm weather, he is heavily clad. A drifter meets a man along the road who, too, is a drifter – an out of work carnival worker.
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