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painted with many colors

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What is meant by "painted with many colors" in the following context from "Nowhereman" by Aleksandar Hemon:


Humid evening heat; the streets covered with a dark, oily placenta. A man named Igor was waiting for me, holding a sign with my name on it. He was blond, blue-eyed, sinewy as a marathon runner, cautiously clever — painted with many colors, as they say. I present that as a fact, while it was barely a somnolent impression at the time.

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