This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man." In this poem, a man named Invisible Man is described as a "black-haired guy" who is a "new comer" in the army. The poem's title is a reference to the fact that the Invisible Man's hair is black, and that he is a member of the Invisible Men, a group of soldiers who have been fighting scorpions for centuries. In this passage, the narrator describes
This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Invisible Man." In this poem, a man named Invisible Man is described as a "black-haired guy" who is a "new comer" in the army. The poem's title is a reference to the fact that the Invisible Man's hair is black, and that he is a member of the Invisible Men, a group of soldiers who have been fighting scorpions for centuries. In this passage, the narrator describes