P and Invisible Man

[Mark Kohut]

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> On Aug 18, 2020, at 4:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes.  Graffiti is also rebellion, but not done openly.  Stealth is also noble.
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>> 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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>>>> 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:
>>>> 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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