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Ladies, gentlemen, young and old ... draw near without fear.
Go in and hear about the adventures the illustrated man hides on his skin ...


When I was very young I left for the great ocean to hunt whales. I was an expert at catching whales with a big harpoon and doing tattoos on the other sailors with a needle.


I caught a white whale, one of the ones you see in books, with my harpoon. When I was opening it up with my knife, I found a message in a bottle in its belly. I started reading the message, but just then ...


As I was moving across the sea, I saw a giant tentacle destroy the boat. Then there was a blank.


I woke up on a beach on an island. But it wasn't a desert island. Some savages caught me and when they made clear that they wanted to eat me, I escaped into the forest. Right there, amongst the palm trees, I found a frightening looking cave and I hid in it. It was a deep cave, and at the other end of that depth I saw a light.


I set out towards the light. When I reached it, I walked through a theatre curtain and came out into this circus. Since then I've lived here, telling the stories that appear in the tattoos on my skin. You'll have to come again another day to hear how I met my wife ...