P and Invisible Man

[David Morris]

Yes.  Graffiti is also rebellion, but not done openly.  Stealth is also
noble.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 3:47 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet, Ellison was reading Lord Raglan’s famous THE HERO, the day he wrote
> the first words of IM, I’ve just learned.
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> In a sense, the low frequency [ see the last line of the novel] heroism of
> the preterite, maybe.
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> I like Tanner seeing power, proudly stolen to illuminate like Milton’s
> heaven. Illuminate his underground room.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 18, 2020, at 4:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Byron is just being Byron, living forever, despite Their wishes.
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> David Morris
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> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 1:49 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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