The (Frightening?) Lower Frequencies

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

Awesome line, Invisible Man. Well played. But now for us, gentle reader, the audience, context matters.

"Who knows"

Implying a gray area, an unknown. Possibly rhetorical? We need context.

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies"

Just the lower frequencies, down there where the wavelengths exist under the noise, the chaos, the hubbub of the imperfect, justified world. Just like where he resides, in his hole. Underneath. Context?

"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

Are you okay with him speaking for you? Am I?

Context matters. It's not even the quote that needs deconstructing. It is the sentence that precedes it.

"And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

I apologize for the party trick. No need to omit the most crucial part except for some cheap drama. (Do you feel shocked?) But let us consider now what is frightening about this final line, this last idea of one man speaking for another. Let us consider why this frightens our introspective, level-headed, universalist, unnamed, narrator. After all, it is he who is frightened by this, not us. So is it because of what it means for him? Or for us? Or for all of us?

So consider it.