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The Intangibility Of Jazz In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

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A long lasting admirer of jazz, Ellison considered Invisible Man as jazz's artistic comparable. Indeed, even the possibility of "intangibility," which is a sight-based (as opposed to sound-based) idea gets contrasted with jazz: Maybe I like Louis Armstrong since he's made verse out of being imperceptible. I figure it must be on the grounds that he's unconscious that he is undetectable. What's more, my own particular handle of intangibility helps me to comprehend his music. [...] Invisibility, let me clarify, gives one a marginally extraordinary feeling of time, you're never fully on the beat. At times you're ahead and in some cases behind. Rather than the quick and vague streaming of time, you know about its hubs, those focuses where time
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