Once you get used to it, reality is as irresistible as a club, and i was clubbed into the cellar before i caught the hint...When one is invisible he finds such problems as good and evil, honesty and dishonesty, of such shifting shapes that he confuses one with the other depending upon who happens to be looking thorough him at the time." pg 572

The prologue and the epilogue are my favorite parts of this book. In this particular quote, the diction that is used is very appreciate relating reality to a club. His reality was like being beaten with a club, and as he said it took the entire book of being beaten for him to finally realise what was going on around him. There is much to be said about the second part of the quote. Again he had the opposite words, which keeps up the the inner theme of him tangling between two extremes. What is intresting about this quote is that he is blurring the two polar opposites together depending on who looks at him. White and black are two polar opposites as well. I believe he is saying in this quote that when a person of his own race treats him invisible, then he starts to blur the evil and the good together. If a white man looks strait though him, to him that is expected and he can easily dub that particular white person "evil" and move on with his life. But when it is a black person treating him the exact same way as the white person, that is when his inner conflict comes in. What is ironic about these two statements is in the first sentence he claims to have reality beaten into him, however he is still dealing with the inner racial conflicts.