P and Invisible Man

[Mark Kohut]

Plist fave reader-critic Tony Tanner has a
 terrific long essay on Ellison's *Invisible Man*, which I
am rereading for a course I am teaching on Roth (*The Human Stain* which is
indebted to IM).

In Tanner's what might I call the sometimes metaphysical reach of his
criticism, he observes this.
You may recall the elaborate light arrangement for his room , 13 thousand
some bulbs run off a stolen line from the power
company that the invisible man has set up proudly and elaborates on.

He, Tanner, finds the deep genius of this scene and metaphor to be to show
the power connection that even an
invisible man needs to exist in the US. Power, energy from the system, the
grid (but he doesn't use that term) and

it made me think of Byron in GR. Anyone, anyone?