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“... which cannot be rotted by water or destroyed by fire . . . This tree is, so far as I am aware, unknown to anyone else.Pliny the ElderMay well be extinct, and our one authorityis terse, but that surely speaks in his favour.No wonder its timber was used on the Argo– the ship that rent old Neptune’s slumber –for in contact with seawater it neither ...”

“... space is unconfined a lesser Science rules whatever’s mensural, and gods come out like stars, unknown but understood, to mask ...”

“... semblance, the object for its shadow, the visible coin for the invisible riches whose origins are unknown and whose value is ambiguous: the body for a wee spirit, the residue of this creation out of nothing, as in a diaphanous box. Drop by drop the borders are in motion, purgatory is open for those of us holding a carving knife, a rope, and a hoop made of ...”

“... for government, but for oblivion. Part of the SDP is to go with Robert MacLennan, a year ago unknown in Britain and today unknown throughout the world. The other part, under David Owen, is being re-launched as the political wing of Sainsbury’s. At the Labour Conference there was little rejoicing over the demise of ...”

“... By contrast, Michael Ventris’s decipherment of the Cretan writing known as Linear B, an unknown language written in an unknown script, was an act of genius. Unlike Champollion and most other decipherers, Ventris had no bilingual text to guide him. The Indus Valley presents similar problems, since there are no good ...”

“... long as the designers of the plane’s navigation system do.But the ineffable is another kind of unknown altogether. It’s not simply something that isn’t known. It is that which is personally experienced but for which no words can be found. Something of the senses which can never be translated into language. You can see it, hear it, taste it, touch ...”

“... ever touched or seen, props for a play that no one was there to perform, their reason for being unknown, till the angel descended to set things in motion, with one final link in the puzzle: a bread knife, a needle, a hairbrush, an unwound clock, a fairytale apple, dusted with shadows and ...”

“... clear, this certainty: From now on all is wrong. Odourless and sharp, like a passport photo, this unknown person with a glass of tea at table, with staring eyes. It’s no good, no good, no good: litany in the head, a slight nausea. End of reproaches. Slowly the whole room Fills with guilt right up to the ceiling. This complaining voice is strange, only not ...”

“... make light of the whole affair, pace that smothered undertone. But reading of what we lack in unknown names, quaint rhetoric, how can we fail to despair amid death’s haphazard bric-à-brac? In church, stout men at ropes, gargantuan pan-pipes and a bible-bolstering eagle – props to abash our failing hopes – contrive to adumbrate a world of pastoral ...”

“... am chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I will not agree to commit American men and women to an unknown war, in an unknown land, for an unknown cause, under an unknown commander, for an ...”

“... sometimes stated. The shadowy John Bettes was at work a generation earlier – his portrait of an unknown man in a black hat, painted in oils in 1545, is the oldest painting in the Tate Britain collection – but Hilliard was the first to earn fame outside the confines of the court.Hilliard had formative periods abroad, however. His family were staunchly ...”

“... then find, on the slow walk back, an impress or two the sweeps of foam had missed: fossils of some unknown future, or ears listening through billions of years of hiss for the delicate cry. Recent Summers This imminence . . . an English distillation of lowering hedges, a hammer-weight of heat on the accomplishing ferns: everything tending to cataclysm, fiddling ...”

“... make Is life itself.            Gather your things, off Into the grimy evening, Woman unknown, best ...”

“... Afraid of someone who was better at what he had always been best at – being young. Being unknown. Once he had been unknown. That had been what he had been famous for. But now he was not, and it was killing him. When we shook hands in farewell at his front door, Martin Amis was barely one inch high. There was an ...”

“... bedfellows, the three made even stranger collaborators at MoMA. That said, Rivera was hardly unknown in the United States; in the news in 1930-31 on account of mural commissions in the Bay Area, he was already presented as a pan-American counterpoint to difficult European modernism – his radical politics notwithstanding, he was at least aesthetically ...”