When Griffin had fully digested the fact that his body had disappeared for good, his mood suddenly shifted from one of frustration at the world to pure exaltation. “I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.”
Although we rarely contemplate it, our body is the starting point of our world and the object we know best. We can see and touch our body, and as American phenomenologist Aron Gurwitsch notes, “we are immediately and directly aware of our body, at least in marginal form, at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, and at whatever place we might happen to find ourselves… the body is the only
