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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan 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, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

- Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man" (Schmoop Editorial Team. Prologue.1)

(Hired for their ability to be "seen and unseen" at the same time, African-American men working along the railways as Pullman Porters were generally stripped of their own identity and called "George" in homage to the company's founder, George Pullman).