…the filament type." Ralph Ellison - The Invisible Man - 1947!
I thought that was a jarringly contemporary distinction he made. He was talking about how he lit his apartment. I know he wasn’t talking about CFCs, but CFCs were the reason why the average citizen even had to decide between fluorescent bulbs and the filament type.
What do Chloro-Fluoro Carbons have to do with Fluorescent* lights? Maybe CFL.
It’s kind of nifty when old Sci-Fi gets it right.
*Like fluoride.
ETA: Do your worst Gaudre 
Heh, yeah that’s right.
Not Invisible Man, the sci-fi story (1897, H.G. Wells), Invisible Man, the contemporary story of race and society (1947, Ralph Ellison).
When the narrator said “the older…filament type”, he meant older from the perspective of 1947. That’s what made it so jarring.
Après vous, le gaudre? 
I hate flourescent light. Makes everything look so white and powdery.
It’s great for shooting zombies.
Photographically, that is.
One of my fave little photo experiments involved shooting portraits with Kodak E-4 processed Photomicrography film and flourescent lights. Effective ASA (ISO) was about 6, and I had to process it myself, but BOY HOWDY! Did it ever make people look horrid! Showed all the veins close to the skin, showed old and covered blemishes, enhanced imperfect skin tones, and gave everything an eerie pale greenish/purple tint.
My girlfriend hated those portraits.