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,
fibre and liquidsand Imight even be said to possess a
mind.I am invisible, understand, simply because people
refuse to see me When they approach me they
see only my surroundings, themselves, or
figments of their imaginationindeed, everything and
anything except me. RalphWaldo Ellison Invisible Man, prologue.
