Who am I

[Zeno]

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination – indeed, everything, and anything except me.

-Ralph Ellison

[PoBoy321]

Oh Zeno, do you want a friend?

[nothumb]

You're black?

NT

[Zeno]

Irrelevant.

-Zeno

[jakethebake]

Irrelevant? Isn't that what Invisible Man was about? Being black?

[Zeno]

Only on the surface.

-Zeno

[spamuell]

Zeno, whoever is going to understand this already does.

[Zeno]

Thanks Spamuell - You are probably right.

End of thread.

-Zeno

[cnfuzzd]

i fail to see the point of you posting this here...but maybe its just me?


peace

john nickle

[natedogg]

Book snob.

natedogg

[ThaSaltCracka]

whats the problem Zeno?

[thatpfunk]

To write of race as irrelevant is just wrong. Read it as you like, but it is definetly not "irrelevant."

[jakethebake]

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Only on the surface. -Zeno

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I just love the way literature buffs try to eek out an even deeper meaning than even the author intended. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[jakethebake]

Hmmm....o.k. we might need a different name.
[ QUOTE ]
Book snob.

natedogg

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[Broken Glass Can]

[ QUOTE ]
Irrelevant? Isn't that what Invisible Man was about? Being black?

[/ QUOTE ]

You mean Ralph Ellison is black? But he sounds so white.

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[Zeno]

Yes, they are a pain. I am quite sure English/Literature Professors have a name for this phenomenon. 'Deep' or unintended or, etc. etc. It all goes on and on - Like, The Revelation of St. John The Divine. Now there is some deep stuff. Eternally deep and deeper it goes on into infinity.

Zeno: Book Snob /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[BottlesOf]

That's funny, I mentioned this book in SS today.