Not exactly invisibility. Excursion.
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So he doesn't go invisible. He takes a short trip. One definition of "excursion" is "a deviation from a regular pattern, path, or level of operation." In other words, Lew is leaving his furrow which, as we learned, was the etymology of the word "delirium." He is delirious and it is his delirium that allows him to become "invisible."
I'd also like to point out that sometimes an excursion can become a long-term or permanent change of location. I experienced it myself when I left my hometown to go cross country in my VW bus, winding up leaving California to live in Lincoln, Nebraska, for two years. Meaning, of course, that Lew could have arrived in this Chicago by accidentally performing an excursion that became permanent.
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