"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."
"The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility."
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Source: David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.10, Hachette UK
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