Invisible Man

[Otto]

Thanks for the recommendation, I've ordered it.

2006/8/26, terrance fitzgerald <fitzgerald_terrance at yahoo.com>:
> Wha? Watts? Lot49?
> Isn't Slothrop Ellison's Invisible Man? Sure he is. And the overt
> allusions to Ellison's classic should be obvious to anyone who just
> re-read the novel. Consider that Invisible Man ends up just like Slothrop,
> in the sewer, under ground, underworld. Remember that Malcolm is there too.
> And remember that Invisible Man works in a paint factory. Now, how many
> paint (dye)
> factories does Slothrop "work" run for his life in? Ain't there
> some strange shit in GR about a Jewish lightninged paint factory?
> Didn't Slothrop do that old I'm Hiter the house painter bit?
> Invisible Man walks in on a Union Meeting. Just trying to get
> lunch ... ends up getting a rocket to the face. Ends up being
> a subject in some Pointsman's hospital-factory. And check out the cure ...
> the treatment the brotha gets. Ain't that something like
>  what
> happens to Slothrop too. And when he gets out of the factory-hospital.
> that what's her name (Black woman who takes him in, he smashes
> her piggy and books ... is it Mary), kinda like that doll Slothrop
>  can't find and nobody, not even the reader, can find ... is G O N E.
> MMMMM, and ain't Invisible Man all doped up and messed up from the
> treatment, but that's when he, kinda like when Slothrop discovers
> that he's an Invisible American trying to be invisible to
> the Americans, begins to see. He begins, and maybe this is the
> Oedipa trip, America ... in the streets, in the trash and
> memories tossed out on the street, disposessed ....
>
> anyway, I think VL is indebted to Mumbo Jumbo and GR to I M.
>