“... contrasts with what we shall never know about their life – this blank, this mute block of the unknown.’ In his memoir, Perec depicted this ‘mute block of the unknown’, the disappearance of the traces of those destroyed in the camps, as perhaps the cruellest legacy of the Holocaust: ‘I know that what I say is ...”

“... squashed by Dad, that Uncle Clarence, my mother’s brother killed in the First War, might be the Unknown Soldier.I still have much of Aunt Eveline’s music, albums covered in brown paper, the edges bound in brown paper too for easier turning over when in the darkened pit of the Electric she gazes up at the silent screen while thumping out ‘Any Time’s ...”

“... writes, I have received countless greetings from friends who were pleased at my arrival, and from unknown and indeed uninvolved strangers who only wanted to give expression to their satisfaction at my having found freedom and safety here. And in addition there arrived, with a frequency surprising to a foreigner, communications of another sort, which were ...”

“... Ideas in Europe’ covering, among other things, various early works by Hegel. In 1933, an unknown Russian called A. Kozhevnikov was recommended to take them over. Kozhevnikov got off to a shaky start. He had decided to concentrate on Hegel’s unwieldy and enigmatic Phenomenology of Spirit, which was barely known at the time (he himself was not very ...”

“... by Veronese. Whether it and its companion were made as fakes, as seems most likely, or whether the unknown artist simply wanted an approximate record of pictures he had seen and admired, cannot be established; but they cannot realistically be attributed to Veronese. The National Gallery decided to mount the Veronese exhibition on the main floor to take ...”

“... and Orthodox cemeteries, I am walking through the long disused Jewish cemetery because, for some unknown reason, this is the one day in the year they unlock it, and I take pleasure walking through it because I like walking on these inimitable La Sportivas, so buoyant and light under my feet, and because there are neither Michaelmas daisies nor people ...”

“... in Jutland and died in 1809. Of his two sons, Mathias went broke and shipped out to America, fate unknown; the other was the first in a line of three men called Peter Andreas. Peter Andreas I prospered: his farm had a windmill. Peter Andreas II fought for Denmark in the Second Schleswig War of 1864 and died in 1888, leaving his widow Severine with 11 ...”

“... by disorderly types down south? Will old spirits of resistance inspire a leap into the unknown? Or will the prospect of such a leap frighten the rest into holding tighter to what they already have? It may only be a year or two before we find ...”

“... unique and most stimulating intellectual experience: but they were never discussed by the Faculty. Unknown to us, Q, who had ceased before long to play any significant part in the Cambridge English Faculty, continued for thirty years, as a prominent Liberal, to play a leading role in the development of Cornish education. Would that Leavis had told us more ...”

“... they are jaded clubmen or dons who come to Africa in search of adventure. They trek out into unknown territory, assisted by a white hunter and a retinue of colourful, loyal Zulus. Their quest is for a lost kingdom, which will remain cut off from civilisation after the heroes have done their work and gone home (usually enriched with a few pocketfuls of ...”

“... both in Italy itself and on the Dalmatian coast. No Italian Jews were deported to the ominous ‘unknown destination’ (Auschwitz) while Mussolini ruled Italy. Although Mack Smith does not mention it, it was only in October 1943, after Mussolini’s overthrow, that the new German authorities in Rome embarked on the deportation of more than eight thousand ...”

“... from that film hang in the air, turning the story into a double one. He’s notionally finding an unknown talent but really finding a known talent that is always on the verge of getting lost. The Mason character is arrogant, vain, malicious, more than a bit of a bully, and the only person in any of the four films to look truly addicted to anything (booze in ...”

“... but not since. Following his death in 1946 he had numerous exhibitions in Belgium, and wasn’t unknown abroad. Now his peculiarly cold vision strikes a chord. La Digue, a painting of a solitary beach hut by a seawall (not at the RA), foreshadows the bare paintings of the Scottish painter Craigie Aitchison. Tree behind a Wall, from 1936, could be a George ...”

“... a link to African ritual practice. However, a more helpful South African, Dr Hendrik Scholtz, unknown to the scholarly community here, confirmed the police theory. Baker and O’Reilly travelled to South Africa in April 2002, and Nelson Mandela publicly appealed for anyone with information to come forward. The trail went cold, however, and the police had ...”

“... unflinching hunger for the real. Proportionate you are but pallid never. With strength of knee unknown to the genteel You push on with your passionate endeavour To sweep aside the veil of the ideal And view the actual world on a straight footing In every aspect, even the off-putting. ‘Your stomach’s got no eyes,’ a man once said Who’d guessed I ...”