P and Invisible Man

[Gary Webb]

On that note there is also something Promethean about this “transgression”, the Prometheus of Aeschylus... 

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> On Aug 18, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>> 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
>>> 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?
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