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I am an invisible man. //Invisible Man//, Ralph Ellison

My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, bleak wind. //The Autobiography of My Mother//, Jamaica Kincaid

Call me Ishmael. //Moby Dick//, Herman Melville

We were young, we were bored, and the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. //Running With Scissors//, Augusten Burroughs