The prologue to this novel explains how a certain trait messes with one's sense of time so that “you're never quite on the beat.” A pamphlet by a “spiritual technologist” known for knob-toed shoes inspires the protagonist of this novel to follow his grandfather's advice and “overcome them with (15[2])yeses.” An old (15[1])man asks this novel’s protagonist for directions to Center Street before being told any train will take him to the Golden (15[1])Day. The narrator of this (15[1])novel’s prologue listens to (*) Louis [Lewis] Armstrong's “Black and (10[1])Blue” (10[1])on five record players at once in a (10[1])room (10[2])illuminated by (10[4])1,369 light (10[3])bulbs. This novel’s protagonist quits the Brotherhood (10[1])during a (10[1])riot led (10[1])by Ras the Exhorter. For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, others refuse to see the narrator of what novel by Ralph Ellison? (10[1])■END■