Invisible

__Invisibility: Refused to Be Seen__  (Click for my essay in a new window) media type="file" key="1-13 Who Will Survive In America.mp3" width="240" height="20" "that the awful symbol was the effect of the ever-active tooth of remorse, gnawing from the inmost heart outwardly, and at last manifesting Heaven's dreadful judgment by the visible presence of the letter." (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter)



“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, simply because people refuse to see me.” -Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man

 “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, The Invisible Man  Click to go back to the main page