Not V: Byron as levitating Kinetic Sculpture

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 18:07:04 CDT 2010


Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> cottonduck    A levitating light bulb that works wireless: http://youtu.be/XHcHG63tUqM


In a walled-off basement room ablaze with 1,369 light bulbs lives the
unnamed hero of Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN (1952).

1,369 is the square of thirty-seven—Ellison’s age at the time of
writing—which ties the narrator’s experience to Ellison’s own sense of
self.



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