Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison TO IDA "You are saved," cried Captain Delano, more and more astonished and pained; "you are saved: what has cast such a shadow upon you?"
- Herman Melville, Benito Cereno HARRY:
I tell you, it is not me you are looking at, Not me you are grinning at, not me your confidential looks
Incriminate, but that other person, if person, You thought I was: let your necrophily Feed upon that carcase...
T. S. Eliot, Family Reunion Prologue I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass....
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