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Invisible Man:
"It is very warm in here but I am going to risk putting you to sleep by putting out the lights again for slides. I think I will take the liberty of removing my own coat which I never did before. I am a very formal person. I think I will tell you why I am formal. In 1927 I started doing the work I am doing and I made up my mind to think and to pay attention to what I thought instead of what other people thought. At that time it was such a new experience to be thinking myself and trying to discipline myself to go along with what I thought, that I found it convenient to pay such attention to what I was saying that if I said I was uncomfortable that I would get myself comfortable. You find yourself in strange attire or in no attire at all, and in due course you find you are getting good results. And you are thinking that there are other human beings that are interested in what you are thinking and the thought doesn’t belong to you. I found myself being invited out to dinner at someone’s house, and I said I’m sorry but I don’t eat that stuff. They had taken a lot of trouble with it and I was wearing something very strange, and they were all neat and so what I was wearing or didn’t wear became important and what I didn’t
