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The journeys of Orpheus
Itinerary between the world and the underworld, between life and death of the Thracian singer
branded on their skin for their bloody crime, and in vase painting they are depicted tattooed: “From that day on, songs and lovely lyre-playing have held sway over the island and it is the most songful of all islands. As for the warlike Thracian men, when
. Many of them are more hardcore than hobbyists: they will shave their head and tattoo and pierce themselves according to the fashions of the time period their persona is from. Since they portray a specific persona from a specific geographic location in a
sort of bygone, fading tattoo. Written across the male body lying prone is Thirty Years.” (Tóth, 36) The direction of seeing is reversed. The point of view shows this peculiar work of art as a torso to be completed before it can become a human body, or
] > [tɛt|koː] ‘tattoo’, [lɑʦi]/[lɑʦɑ] > [lɑʦ|koː], [ʧɛsloʋaːkijɑ] > [ʧɛs|koː] ‘Czechoslovakia’ 34 b. [fɛrɛnʦ] > [fɛ|ʦoː], [keːɡli] > [kɛ|ʦoː] ‘appartment’, [nɑdraːɡ] > [nɑ|ʦoː] ‘trousers’ c. [muki] > [muk|ʃoː] ‘guy’, 35 [utolʃoː] > [ut|ʃoː] 36 (→[uʧʧoː