These were the modes of a people, small in number, beset by dangers and in terror. They dared not think. If frightened … they shook and committed horrid atrocities in the name of their creed, the cost of emptiness.
—WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, In the American Grain
That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come into contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes.…