P and Invisible Man

[David Morris]

It seems the IM is proud of his rebellious theft from the Power Co. it is a
stealth rebellion, so not very heroic.  More like a game.

Byron is just being Byron, living forever, despite Their wishes.

David Morris

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 1:49 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Plist fave reader-critic Tony Tanner has a
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>  terrific long essay on Ellison's *Invisible Man*, which I
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> am rereading for a course I am teaching on Roth (*The Human Stain* which is
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> indebted to IM).
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> In Tanner's what might I call the sometimes metaphysical reach of his
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> criticism, he observes this.
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> You may recall the elaborate light arrangement for his room , 13 thousand
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> some bulbs run off a stolen line from the power
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> company that the invisible man has set up proudly and elaborates on.
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> He, Tanner, finds the deep genius of this scene and metaphor to be to show
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> the power connection that even an
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> invisible man needs to exist in the US. Power, energy from the system, the
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> grid (but he doesn't use that term) and
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> it made me think of Byron in GR. Anyone, anyone?
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