The sentence "Man with a mustache and scarf backward. Does he look guilty?" can, if we distance ourselves from all references to living beings, be read as a metaphor for objects and their position in space. Suppose we consider the elements as objects without organic properties. "With a mustache and scarf" would then no longer refer to a person's physical characteristics, but rather to an object's accessories: extra parts that adorn the basic element or add an unexpected layer. "Backwards" in that case doesn't mean that a body is turned, but that an object or structure is placed in an unconventional orientation—as if a chair is placed with its back to the front, or a building whose facade is at the back.