He imagines what it would feel like to have five recordings of Louis Armstrong's "What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue" playing simultaneously. The narrator, a music lover, has only one radio-phonograph but plans to have five so that he can feel as well as hear his music. Besides, because he is invisible, the narrator is able to live rent-free and avail himself of free electricity.ĭescribing his underground home: the coal cellar of a whites-only building "in a section of the basement that was shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century," the narrator avoids the picture of a dark hole or crypt, hastening to explain that his cellar is illuminated by 1,369 light bulbs. To illustrate, the narrator relates an incident in which he almost killed a white man in the street for insulting him until he realized the absurdity of a sleepwalker being killed by a phantom, existing only in the white man's nightmares. Although he considered his invisibility a disadvantage, he points out that it has become an asset.
Without giving a name, the narrator introduces himself as a man, not a ghost, describing the nature of his invisibility: People refuse to see him.
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