![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosanne Cash names both these and what lies beyond our life, The World Unseen. This could be a scent, like Céu’s Perfume do Invisivel, or it could be a sound, like distant barking of Electrelane’s The Invisible Dog. Other memories are more ephemeral - a half-remembered music hall song in Joyce’s Ulysses is the unseen presence for Sonic Youth’s Secret Girl.Īt times, what you can sense remains out of view. Grief, however, can also keep a loved one present, if unseen, as with Seckou Keita’s dead father in Mikhi Nathan Mu-Toma. A quote from this provides the title for That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy by The Twilight Sad, a song infused with sadness and estrangement. In the movie Stand By Me, the narrator, Gordie is invisible to his grieving parents. For some, that social invisibility may be welcomed, an escape from pain, as it is for Curtis Mayfield in To Be Invisible. That indifference can be societal, as Robb Johnson righteously describes in Invisible People, with the dispossessed working class disappearing from official view. In a relationship, indifference will render you invisible, as Leon Rosselson shows in Invisible Married Breakfast Blues. This invisibility is often unwilled and unwanted. It’s an ambiguous gift: even his mother cannot perceive him. Frost*, in The Boy Who Stood Still, tell of a boy that can remain so motionless he becomes unseen. In a world of constant motion, stillness is a superpower. His is a more sinister glee, as he steals, dodges rounds at the pub and spies on women at home. Kate Bush has the magic formula for How To Be Invisible: “Take a pinch of keyhole/And fold yourself up.” If that sounds too tricky, you could always try, like Mik Artistik's Ego Trip, a Secret Cloak of Invisibility. As his friend explains, “I think it indicates your level of shame.” Pink Floyd, in Flaming, choose both and, seemingly, have no shame, tripping the astral plane unseen. The brash and outgoing, mostly men, choose flight the introvert and ashamed opt for invisibility. He says that what you choose says a lot about who you are. The humourist John Hodgman likes to offer to people at parties the choice of two superpowers, flying or invisibility. ![]()
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