human
What makes you pop on and off like an electric light? I asked.
gpt
Must be a tiring way to go through life.
human
You don't know the half of it, the young man said mournfully.
gpt
I've only been this way for a few months, but it seems like it's been years.
human
Well, go on, I said.
gpt
Spill your troubles. Why should Mr. Anthony have all the fun?
human
What?
gpt
Never mind. Shoot.
human
I'm not sure what causes me to fade-out like this. I've been to a half dozen doctors and psychiatrists and they aren't sure either. But it has something to do with personality development, they think. The last psychiatrist I visited told me that I had a very colorless personality and abnormal inhibitions and frustrations. He said that my present condition was a physical manifestation of my colorless personality.
gpt
That sounds about as asinine as the droolings of the average psychiatrist, I muttered.
human
He didn't know and spent an hour saying so, I'll bet.
gpt
It's awful, the young man sighed disconsolately.
human
I can make myself visible for a little while but it's awfully tiring. The rest of the time I go around like a ghost. I blend into the background so completely that people just don't notice me at all. It's just like not being alive.
gpt
The Man the World Forgot, as an exposition of this theme. Unexplained instances of men and women
human
from normal environments might be simply cases of submerged personalities which did not