
Emotionen in Literatur und Film 47
and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death. I myself, after existing some twenty years,
did not become alive until I discovered my invisibility.
That is why I fight my battle with Monopolated Light & Power. The deeper reason, I
mean: It allows me to feel my vital aliveness. I also fight them for taking so much of my
money before I learned to protect myself. In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369
lights. I’ve wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with fluorescent bulbs, but with
the older, more-expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. […]. Nothing, storm or flood,