Notes from 10/26

The importance of music in relation to myth. They both belong on the bottom of the pyramid.

The invisible man't mind and imagination won't let him rest.

Mthological references: The Odyssey (Jack and his one eye,) The Eipc of Gilgamesh, The Aneeid (Sibil.)

Sibil (the Cumayan sibil) is the mythological guide to the hero's enterance into the underworld.

This fits with the story's theme of the mythological quest

The Last chapter of "Invisible Man" is related to the book of revelation

Picquaresque scenes in "Invisible Man"

The Battle Royale

Trueblood

The Golden Day *note Supercarge represents the superego

Homer Barbee

Bledsoq *represents the expulsion from Paradise

Vet on Bus

Emerson *Ralph Waldo Emerson, theoretically

Paints

Hospital *electroshock therapy results in a loss of identity

Mary

Brotherhood

Tod Clifton *the speech in reminiscent of the Bible and Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, "Go home" aka "I come to bury Caesar not to praise him."

Rinehart

Apocalypse aka riot