The Visible Man by Klosterman Chuck

Author:Klosterman, Chuck [Klosterman, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781439184462
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2011-10-04T03:00:00+00:00

• On troubleshooting: “I completely miscalculated how cloaking would impact my shadow. We all did. We were all working under the assumption that shadows would be no issue whatsoever, because—in theory—the light I relocate should negate the absence of light we recognize as shadow. But it didn’t work that way. The suit absorbs a tiny percentage of light, so it doesn’t refract the full one hundred percent of what remains. This wasn’t something I realized until I started wearing it on a regular basis: People can’t see me, but the sun can. I still cast a dim, undefined silhouette. It’s almost like projecting a shadow through a funhouse mirror. There are ways around this, though. If I’m traveling outside, I do my walking at night or at noon, or on days that are overcast. When I’m inside a room, I always stay cognizant of any windows that face directly east or directly west, and I try to avoid walking in front of south-facing windows during the afternoon. It’s really more of a hassle than a problem. And like I said before—you’d be surprised by what people see, yet refuse to notice. I think about that a lot. Like, have you ever heard of a Mexican tribe called the Huicholes?9 The so-called Running People of Mexico? There’s a great book about these freaks. They’re this hermetic society known for two things. The first, as you might expect, is running—the Huicholes are the craziest athletes in North America. Members of this tribe regularly run forty, fifty, a hundred miles at a time, barefoot, over unspeakable terrain, subsisting only on corn beer and mouse meat, purely for pleasure. No one knows how they do it. But—interestingly—the other thing they’re known for is invisibility. They live in caves around the Sierra Madres, and these people can virtually disappear into the rock. The first time a nineteenth-century explorer came across the Huicholes, he walked straight through one of their villages and didn’t see anything. They were right there in front of him, and he didn’t see one person. So if it’s possible for an explorer to overlook an entire tribe he’s actively searching for, imagine how difficult it is for an untrained person to see one stranger they don’t expect to be there.”

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